Yolande Moreaubehind and in front of the camera, for a romantic comedy with the sweet madness shot in the image of her director. That's the promise ofThe Poet's Bride, in theatres from October 11, 2023.
Yolande Moreau en Yolande Moreau
We know Yolande Moreau. Her furious look. His eyebrows constantly interrogating. His roles as characters as unsound as they are. And while she goes for the fourth time behind the camera toThe Poet's Bride, it does not offer itself a role extracting from the usual carcan in which it is usually used as an actress.
The Belgian in fact embodies Mireille, regaining the walls of an old family house bordering the Meuse after a past of dealer who sent him a good pack of years behind the locks. Living a job as a cantinière at the Fine Arts of Charleville-Mézières, it's more the poetry she hears in the students' mouth than the fries she serves that interests her. Accrediting her salary from some clandestine cigarette sales, she will make the decision to rent the three rooms of her house to pay the costs of this old building.
At that time, three thug tenants landed in his town, interpreted byGrégory Gadebois, Esteban andThomas Guy. Shooting in their wake a benefactory life and a bit of madness that they will distill in this house full of memories, yet he is a fourth man who is about to make his appearance and to displace the life of Mireille: the « poet », his very first love, played bySergi Lopez.
Roma com aboard Meuse
Romantic comedyThe Poet's Brideunfortunately brings to its discredit a length of one hour forty. An amputation of about twenty minutes would have allowed him to go to the essentials by cutting in several large parts of fat, including a romantic impeded aspect, leading the atmosphere which still sweats many of his plans.
He would also have deserved a more careful cutting and a more frank assembly. We have the impression here that the film never dares to position itself and ends up with the ass screwed between two chairs. He disavows a rhythmic montage while never taking the side of the contemplative, thus allowing himself to be weighed down by too long plans to instil a rhythm, and too short to prescribe to the spectator the time to soak up the atmospheres they depict.
And that's too bad, because of this Yolande Moreau, by night, placed on a boat where a Boticellian Venus is held, or from these virevoltant wedding scenes, we would have wanted more. And like those two film moments,The Poet's Brideis crossed by real comic projections or aesthetics absolutely bluffing from which the film does not draw their full potential.
A beautiful band
But between Grégory Gadebois, Esteban, Thomas Guy and Moreau, a real and communicative energy passes directly from the stage to the screen. The film of a joyous band whose French guillerettes do not seem to be rigged and radiate to the spectator, sublimated by particularly happy (and joyful) musical scores.
« This feature film was designed during the Covid and confinements, as a family and with my team of faithful. [...] Everything went home in a craft way. With a lot of alcohol... and pleasure!»
In short, an artisanal film, a movie of buddies, blond and clumsy, far from being perfect, but sincere enough to convince widely.The Daughter of the Poetby Yolande Moreau, to be discovered at the cinema on October 11th...
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