Since Stephen embarked on the adventure of Mag.7, our dear host has been able to meet very nicely over the years. But at our humble level, nothing predestined him to receive a personality such as Mathieu Amalric. And yet, an event organized by the Agglopolys libraries allowed this meeting! In this new episode of the Mag.7, come and discover the DVD selection of one of the greatest names of the current French cinema that does not hesitate to navigate between movies, series and TV shows!
It was the next session!
Mag.7 is a podcast, produced and distributed by the association blésoise The Next Meeting. The principle is simple: in collaboration with libraries of Agglopolys In the town of Blois, the host Étienne invites people to walk through the music-cinema service and video games of the places and to choose DVDs there. More specifically, seven films, series, documentaries or concerts – seven corresponding to the borrowing capacity proposed by the library – then evoke their selection to the microphone. A monthly program based on the sharing and passion of the 7th art, and seeking to highlight the quality and quantity of films available in public libraries, all accessible for modest amounts, if not totally free in some communities.
Mathieu Amalric at the Mag.7 microphone
On April 11, the Agglopolys libraries organized a whole day around scholarly music and New York composer John Zorn. For the occasion, Mathieu Amalric came to present two documentaries of his own on said saxophonist. No more was needed for our dear Étienne to invite the actor-director to the microphone of the Mag.7, Amalric being in turn lent to the game of DVD selection with interest and enthusiasm. And above all, this episode marks the first recording of the show in public, made at the Samuel-Paty Auditorium. Étienne takes this opportunity to thank Mathieu Amalric, but also the entire team in the Music, Cinema and Video Games section of libraries. Without them, the podcast of Mag.7 would not exist and would not offer such exceptional encounters!
Cinema, Cinemas (1982-1991)
Nationality : France – Gender : TV broadcast – Creators: Claude Ventura, Anne Andreu and Michel Boujut
DVD Edition France | INA | 06 November 2012
The pitch : TV magazine cult of the 1980s, Cinema, Cinemas represents the unwavering cultural rendezvous of all the cinemaphiles of the time. With a singular and poetic look, the show is interested in films but especially those who make them. This collection is followed by small interviews and unique accounts of filming, from Maurice Pialat to John Cassavetes...
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Nationality : France, Italy – Gender : Drama – Director : Agnes Varda – Distribution : Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blank, Michel Legrand...
DVD Edition France | ARTE Editions | 07 June 2017 - Dissemination platforms : MUBI, LaCinetek, ARTE Boutique, PremiereMax, Pathé Home, VIVA, Canal VOD and Orange
The pitch : Cleo, beautiful and singer, awaits the results of a medical analysis. From superstition to fear, from the Rue de Rivoli to the Café de Dome, from coquetry to anxiety, from her home to Parc Montsouris, Cleo lives 90 special minutes...
Opinion of The Next Meeting (Marie): Mathieu Amalric selected the double DVD Cleo from 5 to 7 and Daguerreotypes d Ciné-Tamaris. This edition highlights the work of publishers·ices DVD and recalls how this medium can constitute a cinematographic object, thought as an extension of the work thanks to its supplements, its restoration and its editorial accompaniment.
However, while I know the quality of this edition, my interest is primarily in the content of the films themselves rather than in their broadcasting medium. What affects me in Cleo from 5 to 7It's the modern look of Agnes Varda. The film follows two hours of Cleo's life, which awaits the results of a medical examination and fears a diagnosis. During his walk in Paris, between existential anguish and questioning his image, Cleo gradually moves from the status of object to that of a subject conscious of himself and the world around him.
Varda transforms this expectation into a deep reflection on time, fear of death and the construction of female identity. Behind the apparent lightness of the New Wave is a portrait of a great psychological finesse, where each encounter contributes to the emancipation of the character. More than sixty years after its release, the film retains a remarkable strength thanks to its accuracy and freedom of staging.
The Leftovers (2014-2017)
Nationality : United States – Gender : Science fiction, Fantastic, Drama – Creators : Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta – Distribution : Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, Margaret Qualley, Chris Zylka...
DVD Edition France | HBO | 11 October 2017 - Blu-ray Edition France | HBO | 11 October 2017 - Dissemination platforms : HBO Max
The pitch : The Two percent of human beings have disappeared from the Earth's surface inexplicably. The inhabitants of the small town of Mapleton are confronted with this disappearance when many of their neighbours, friends and lovers faint in nature in an instant. Three years later, life resumed in the depopulated village, but nothing is more like before. Nobody forgot what happened or who disappeared. Some try to understand, others forget, or remember. Everyone will have to face the collapse of their beliefs, mourning...
Up there (2009)
Title V : Up – Nationality : United States – Gender : Animation, Comedy, Adventure – Directors : Peter Docter and Bob Peterson – Distribution Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, Bob Peterson, Delroy Lindo...
DVD Edition France | Disney | 16 December 2009 - Blu-ray Edition France | Disney | 16 December 2009 - Blu-ray 3D Edition France | Disney | 25 April 2012 - 4K Ultra HD Edition United States | Disney | 03 March 2020 – Dissemination platforms : Disney+, Rakuten TV, Pathé Home, VIVA and PremiereMax
The pitch Carl Fredricksen, a retired balloon salesman, flies to the sky by attaching thousands of balloons to his home. A young boy named Russell becomes an illegal passenger of his journey...
Opinion of MaG (Celeste wolf): Without reaching the gastronomic peaks of Ratatouille nor the silent grace of WALL•E, Up, the tenth feature film of the Pixar studio, unfolds a universal fable that touches the heart. The film opens on a first part of a rare poetry, where emotion rises like a cloud of colored balloons, before tipping towards a thrilling adventure, led drum beating, never losing sight of the tenderness of his speech. Funny, moving, impeccably rhythmic and a visual beauty that never ceases to surprise, Up charms children, consoles adults and reminds everyone that dreams never take dust.
With this crazy journey, where a house rips off the ground, an old man finds breath and a tenacious scout invites himself into adventure, Pixar proves once again that he reigns in master over contemporary animation, capable of taking off the imagination while keeping his feet firmly anchored in humanity.
Opinion of The Next Meeting (Mia): Deep comedy? Oneiric tale? Metaphoric drama? Modern review of the Wizard of Oz ? This masterpiece of animation of the studio Pixar offers a panel of perceptions and analyses that can evolve with the viewer. Up flirts with genres and codes. He can be accused of being too dichotomous between the dramatic aspect of Carl's story and the allegory of this fantastic journey in search of his lost wife, and the comical touch brought by the characters around him and the situations in which they find themselves. But for me it is the strength of this film: it is the adventure of an old sad gentleman who learns to live and to detach himself from his nostalgic figures.
Carl is surrounded by Russell and Doug, a young scout who wants to help his neighbor and an abandoned speaking dog, who seek a love that the old man seems unable to give them because of his heart dried up by his wife's mourning, whose dream he pursues. It is up to each spectator to let themselves be carried by the literal meaning of the images or to seek a metaphorical story to the adventure of this unusual, funny and endearing troupe. We watch the same film, but we don't contemplate the same work, and it's a trick to create a film that is both common and unique to each one.
I hate love (1997)
Nationality : France – Gender : Drama, Romance – Director : Laurence Ferreira Barbosa – Distribution : Jeanne Balibar, Jean-Quentin Chatelain, Laurent Lucas, Alexandra London, Eric Savin...
DVD Edition France | Filmedia | 23 June 2006
The pitch : Annie Simonin, a general practitioner, tries to confront the reality between a hypochondriac persecutor who threatens her with death and a young HIV-positive man who refuses to fight for life and tries not to disappoint...
Evil does not exist (2023)
Title V - (Aku wa sonzai shinai) Nationality : Japan – Gender : Drama – Director : Ryūsuke Hamaguchi – Distribution : Hitoshi Omika, Ryo Nishikawa, Ryûji Kosaka, Ayaka Shibutani, Hazuki Kikuchi...
DVD Edition France | Diaphana | 03 September 2024 - Blu-ray Edition France | Diaphana | 03 September 2024 - Dissemination platforms : Pathé Home, PremiereMax, SOONER, Canal VOD, Orange, VIVA and ARTE Boutique
The pitch Takumi and his daughter Hana lead a modest life in a village in harmony with their environment. The construction project « Glamour campsite » in the nearby natural park will endanger the ecological balance of the site...
Opinion of The Next Meeting (Sebastian): What allows the 7th art to stand out from other artistic media is the evocative meaning and force of an image in motion. Of course, writing is important for a film object, but the very definition of cinema is to be able to transcribe an emotion, a feeling of what the work shows. And to support this, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi's film is a perfect example. For if we only stop at writing, what can we remember fromal does not exist ? From this point of view, the feature film presents itself as a drama that deals with both social and ecological themes: or how, for an economic and tourist issue, a village will see its environment and its environmental harmony changed overnight. Evil doesn't exist thus portrays a Japan close to nature, confronted with an invading urbanist and entrepreneurial world. Add to this the director's work, and the film takes a new form, offering a completely different interpretation.
Beyond his writing, Evil doesn't exist is a chain of sumptuous wood paintings. In the first seconds, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi takes the time to plant his decor and atmosphere. With his camera, he slowly and silently filmed the landscapes offered to him, sublimated by Yoshio Kitagawa's photograph. Each plan becomes a wonder for the retina, a work of art that plunges us into a certain serenity. This can disturb at first, as the film may seem abstract and hermetic. But in doing this, the director puts the spectator at the level of his characters: he loathes to enter into communion with the nature that then offers himself to experience this harmony so central to the narrative. And when the whole thing gradually turns towards a final close to the fantastic, Evil doesn't exist reveals its metaphorical status. Much more than the above-mentioned portrait, the feature film becomes the representation of a nature that is constantly threatened by man, and which, despite its obvious purity, can prove brutal when it has to preserve its balance... even though it may be too late to survive. In addition to its land-to-earth themes, Evil doesn't exist finally gives to us as a dream film more complex than it seems. Without the work of staging, feature film would clearly not have such a specific scope, which contributes to its sensory power.
Twelve thousand (2020)
Nationality : France – Gender : Drama – Director : Nadège Trebal – Distribution : Arieh Worthalter, Nadège Trebal, Liv Henneguier, Florence Thomassin, Juliette Augier...
DVD Edition France | Shellac | 07 April 2021 - Dissemination platforms : SOONER, Canal VOD, Rakuten TV, PremiereMax and VIVA
The pitch Frank gets chased from a car wreck where he works clandestinely. Although very attached to his life with Maroussia, Frank has to go find work elsewhere, far from home. Twelve thousand euros: this is the sum they both agree, the sum he will have to earn before returning...
Opinion of The Next Meeting (Sebastian): Looking closer, Twelve thousand is an umpteenth drama taking as a character a paumé proletarian, living with larcenies and other magouilles. This is clearly what the synopsis promises us: to follow a man who is fired from his job and who, to support his couple, will have to find a new job and the salary that goes with it. But the magic of cinema makes it possible for an intrigue to tell anything else. It can bring the public to a land that it does not necessarily expect, and this is the case with the realization of Nadège Trebal. Because if he promises a dive into the universe of illegal workers, Twelve thousand is above all a love story.
Whatever the social and ethical themes, yet well present, everything in the feature film is subject to talk about desire and feelings, remaining linked to the notion of money. With her film, the director has fun with this, turning away everything that relates to romanticism and the pleasure of the flesh. If only the adage of the title, which distorts the expression « When you love, you don't count ». And for this reason: for the love story of the star couple to persist, he must manage to return to her with a certain sum in his pocket. He must achieve a goal without ever getting lost in the pleasures of life, with the mission of proving his love for her, but also for himself. This, the film manages to illustrate it via sequences at first glance confusing. I am thinking in particular of the meeting between the main character and the mother of one of his makeshift colleagues. The latter presents itself as a sexual game, based on envy and raw distributions, which plays around a debt issue. I could also take as an example the deal he makes with a young woman: the daily breaks that they orchestrate with two become sensual waltzes, with omnipresent impulses.
This bias will surprise more than one. All the more so as with its hybrid tone, it juggles between an assumed candour and a rather rough side of the formwork, the whole presents a shift that will not please everyone. This feeling will also be underlined by more theatrical and dreamlike sequences, stopping the time so that the protagonists enjoy the moment present. But Twelve thousand turns out to be a curiosity. Proof that with cinema, we can have fun with codes and expectations to tell a universal story in many ways.
March Express (2023)
Nationality : France – Gender : Animation, Science fiction, Polar – Director : Jérémie Périn – Distribution : Léa Drucker, Daniel Njo Lobé, Marie Bouvet, Sébastien Chassagne, Mathieu Amalric...
DVD Edition France | Blaq Out | 22 May 2024 - Blu-ray Edition France | Blaq Out | 22 May 2024 - 4K Ultra HD Edition Germany | Capelight Pictures | 06 June 2024 - Dissemination platforms : Orange, Canal VOD, ARTE Boutique, Pathé Home, Cinémutins, SOONER, PremiereMax, VIVA and Rakuten TV
The pitch : In the year 2200, Aline Ruby, an obstinate private detective, and Carlos Rivera his android partner are hired by a wealthy businessman to capture a famous hacker on Earth. As they investigate, they will face the darkest secrets of their city...
Opinion of MaG (Celeste wolf): When cyberpunk science fiction mixes with the paranoid black film of the 70s in a stripped graphic style where realism combines with japanime, the evils of our modern society are at the heart of an investigation influenced by the best (Blade Runner, Chinatown, Ghost in the Shell, Terminator 2). And while the oppression of the proletariat reminds us by the exploitation of robots (as metaphor of oppressed minorities), Jérémie Périn criticizes in his timeless dystopia capitalism, liberalism and spatial utopia of Elon Musk & Co. Well animated and clairvoyant in his reflections, this French animated feature film (for an adult audience) confirms the vitality of the genre in Hexagone.
Opinion of The Next Meeting (Sebastian): Mars Express has a very special meaning for The Next Meeting. Indeed, the title was the subject of our very first screening, in partnership with the cinema of Art & d And I can tell you that beginning the associative adventure in this way, we still have some pride! For us, Mars Express represents the honour of having been able to present a film showing that French cinema is able to do wonders in two still infancy areas today: animation and science fiction. Even though he touched the Caesar with his fingertips of the best animated film in 2024, Jérémie Périn's feature film deserves your full attention for what he proposes.
True love letter at the SF cinema, the title is a tasty mix between Total Recall and Ghost in the Shell. The whole convokes, of course, various references to genre, but the latter never take precedence over the universe depicted by Mars Express. Through an atmosphere and graphic style close to Japanese animation, the film features a captivating police intrigue. In addition to being fully entertaining, the latter is exciting for the themes it addresses: robotics, artificial intelligence, the boundary between human and machine... Even if it gives the impression of sending us to known land, Mars Express manages to transport us to a world of its own solid foundations, to unquestionable wealth. So, if the feature film escaped you when it was released, don't hesitate and go catch up. Jérémie Périn delivers with his film a proposal as effective as it is relevant, as it would be worth seeing more often in French cinema.
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