The list of the morning
Crowned by the last palm of gold, A simple accident is undoubtedly the most frontal film of Iranian Jafar Panahi on the mullahs’ terror regime, while a fascinating Belgian documentary, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, From Johan Grimonprez, revives, through music, the decolonization wounds of the Congo. Anticipation films do not necessarily go up morale by conjecting an Orwellian Japan (HAPPYENDfrom Neo Sora) and a game of massacre in fascist United States (Walking or burst, by Francis Lawrence, who adapts the very first novel by Stephen King). We can possibly comfort ourselves, in the biopics department, in the arms of Simone Signoret and Yves Montand (I who loved you, of Diane KURYS) or the young Miguel de Cervantes which embellished the Pasha of Algiers (Cervantes before Don Quixote, D’Alejandro Amenabar).
Not to be missed
“Soundtrack to coup”: Congo music and scars
The shape of this long film which fascinates from start to finish seems almost improvised, as the themes and tones are woven with fluidity. From the assassination of the leader of independence of the Congo (today Democratic Republic of Congo), Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961), Johan Gimonprez evokes with Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Both the very specific form of Belgian colonialism and the impact of African release movements on that of civil rights in the United States.
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