Film Review: Les Femmes En Or

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Published: Thursday, 29 May 2025 01:12

Written by Gilbert Seah

LES FEMMES EN OR (Two Women) (Canada 2025) ***
Directed by Chloé Robichaud

Violette and Florence no longer understand what's happening to them. Respectively on maternity leave and off work, one is on edge, the other feels nothing. The neighbours are both consumed by a sense of failure: despite their careers and families, they're not happy. Florence's first infidelity will be a revelation. What if happiness meant rebelling against our rigid, performance-driven society? In a context where having fun is far down the list of priorities, sleeping with a delivery man might be downright revolutionary. For Violette and Florence, it will be the breath of fresh air they've been hoping for.

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Cannes 2025 International Festival du Film - Capsule Reviews of Select Films

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Published: Tuesday, 29 April 2025 01:39

Written by Gilbert Seah

CAPSULE REVIEWS of  Select Films will be posted once embargoes have lifted.  Embargo dates listed.

This reviewer did not get the privilege of going to Cannes but thanks to the publicists at the PR Factory, and with them sending screeners, I am able to review their films on this site.  These are smaller but by no means less important films, films that are screened at the other sections in Cannes, such as the Un Certain Regard and Quinzaine Sections.   All embargoes are respected, and capsule reviews are only posted once the embargoes are lifted.

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Film Review: Bolle Perdue 3

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Published: Thursday, 08 May 2025 00:19

Written by Gilbert Seah

LOST BULLET 3 (LAST BULLET (Bolle Perdue 3) (France 2025) ***
Directed by Guillaume Pierret

LAST BULLET begins with a short recap of the films and incidents that lead to the final instalment of LAST BULLET or LOST BULLET 3.

The "Lost Bullet" franchise consists of three French action thriller films directed by Guillaume Pierret and starring Alban Lenoir.  The first movie, "Lost Bullet," was released in 2020, followed by "Lost Bullet 2: Back for More" in 2022, and finally "Last Bullet" was released on May 7, 2025. 

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Film Review: Misericordia

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Published: Monday, 14 April 2025 00:11

Written by Gilbert Seah

MISERICORDE (MISERICORDIA) (France 2024) ****
Directed by Alain Giuraudie

Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor, and an abbot's shady intentions.

MISERICORDE has the feel of a Claude Chabrol murder film in which the cat-and-mouse tale is mainly the mouse outwitting the cat with the aid of his cohorts.  The film is a prized twisted macabre tale with bouts of unexpected humour from the director of the 2014 gay hit L’CONNU DU LAC (Stranger by the Lake), this one with the fabulous Catherine Frot as a widow. who takes in Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) as a lodger whose sensual presence is immediately and progressively destabilizing to everyone around him.  Martine (Catherine Frot) happens to be the mother of his childhood friend, the brutish Vincent (Jean-Baptiste Durand).

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