2022: The war in Ukraine, the extreme weather events, the Quatar elected democracy of the year, Indonesia that penalizes sex out of wedlock and the USA that backfire on abortion while the world discovers benignly that the richest Man in the world is a perfect idiot. Luckily, there is still a little air in the cinema to escape from such a media marasm of a changing planet. To hell with the bad news, from Vietnam, France and Switzerland, the MaG team sets its record of 2022 against winds and tides, its wounds and weaknesses as Natasha Saint-Pierre would say.

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Your eyes on the year 2022?

Hard to talk about cinema without talking about production and media that go together to highlight different films. It's been a year and a half since MaG cut his way into the murderous niche of the cultural press. Media more mourned every day by the closure, if not the purchase of large sizes. The team of Gamekult kindly dismissed by the reworld media ogre, an ever tougher competition by the YouTube algos, kickstarters blooming on cemeteries for specialized sites condemned to alms, the team of tracks licensed manu militari... All with a smile.

Pop culture and the independent press in general accuse the crisis blow after crisis in the face of an increasingly concentrated media landscape, courted by great fortunes and gridded by merchandise. Above all, do not frown the spectator, before any consumer...

The year 2022 for my part was largely dedicated to film festivals (six in total). Although the dark rooms were able to reopen their doors in the spring of 2021, the sanitary measures still weigh on the attendance of the rooms today, even though this is just one of several factors of the changes in usage at work. To put it frankly, the closure of the rooms was an aberration taken by decision-makers more interested in growth than the preservation of culture.

XSome nuggets like X There were only very few slots in the cinema...

Paradoxe obliges, so many of the films that I loved made ovens this year and that no French production is in the top 10 of box-office 2022, all is not black. I had a totally overturned report at these festivals where all the venues were crowded. I remembered a Korean session in the suffocating heat when closing the fantastic festival in Strasbourg. As a glimmer of hope in the face of fantastic films sometimes sadly confined to streaming platforms.

How many award-winning films this year have been released? Ego and Blaze have not had this privilege despite the number of titles taken. Some of them Mad God, seen as a preview in 2021, will only be released in 2023, probably the fault of a post-VOCID output carnage. Still, a simple overview of the available sessions of the last Marvel Black Panther against a film like X is revealing; on the same day: 10 to 1. And yet it is a UGC in Strasbourg, a city flooded with European funds and thus largely spared from certain campaigns.

Mad GodDiscovered in 2021, Mad God is expected on 26 April 2023 in France

All this to say that you probably have to look for the audience with your body and register in festival events much more visible in front of the Gargantuan advertising campaigns of Disney and assimilated. A well-organised festival has a solid comm, « fantastic village » where to exchange with actors and directors in Strasbourg, retrospectives, concerts, conferences and signings in Annecy, etc. France still has the chance to finance festivals everywhere and not just in the big cities. This is my next goal in 2023: to target lesser-known festivals.

In short, it is urgent to make the dark rooms live to grab the hooks of the couch that swear only by the combo Netflix Deliveroo. It seems hollow said like that, but cinema exists only through its audience. And I've never been as surprised as I've been by taking the trouble of going to a festival to trust multiple selections in Strasbourg like Annecy, Paris, Brussels or Montreal.

Avatar: The WaterwayAvatar: Waterway uses state-of-the-art technology that has even made some movie projectors crash!

All these festivals behind which teams experiment and try to make artists from all over the world visible. A step to be taken which certainly takes a little more time (and squatting the apartments of buddies outside Strasbourg), but so much richer. Even Avatar Wins to be seen in the room of what I could read! Going to the movies is as much a political act as going to get a baguette in the bakery rather than the local Super U. And what's better. So as they say in the jargon, get your fingers out of the c**Go back to the movies and support independent media!

THE FIVE FILMS WHO MARKED YOU IN 2022?

If I've seen a lot of great things this year, I've missed tons too, for lack of time. Amongst resolutions 2023, catch up Everything Everywhere All at Once, Pacification, Pinocchio, EO, Leila and her brothers, Night of the 12th, Cairo Conspiracy, No filter, Glass Onion and Avatar: Waterway even if I will go backwards for the latter, being not sensitive to the often Manichean vision of Cameron and his « ecological fable » Supposed.

From festival to festival, it is naturally a largely indecent selection that I decided to highlight. I could also have quoted in bulk the trick X, the fascinating Diabolik, curiosities Demigod and Inu-Oh, the thriller As Bestas despite his last third and even disturbing Egodiscovered in the cold of the Vosges.

Blaze (2022)Blaze child rape

If I have a regret in 2022, it is not taking the time to publish an article on Blaze. "In witness to the violent aggression of an unknown man, Blaze takes refuge in an imaginary world populated by a dragon." These few lines of synopsis are not revealing the beauty of this film, which goes through all stages of victims of sexual violence from the perspective of the attackers.

This first feature film by plasticist Kathryn Barton never falls into overbidding. Still on the peak line, it is the suggestion that guides the viewer towards the revelation of malaise. Each plan obeys its own grammar of childhood imagination while allowing the spectator to guess the lavish traumas of the victims. Beautiful from end to end, Blaze knows how to grasp the issue of child rape with intelligence, strength and courage. A film unrivalled in his approach to this societal scourge all social classes combined.

Don't say anything.Speak No Evilhostages of our propriety?

Speak No Evil is an essay on politeness, a home inverted invasion that, like Funny Gameswill immediately deprive the spectator of all hope. Tafdrup's feature film perfectly illustrates the expression « Getting into the wolf's mouth ». Like any Home Invasion that respects itself, when we have opened the door of our private space abroad, how can we backtrack? A glacial film that probably dethrones Haneke by its power and elegance of raw staging. A masterpiece of the genre to be reserved for an informed audience and a film sadly condemned to VOD despite its presence in Sundance and Fantasia.

⇒ My review

The Innocents (2021)The Innocents, candid cruelty

Children discover paranormal powers that add up and combine when they come together. Another form of awakening is then emerging, faced with the power to adjugate death. The Innocents eskyl Vogt is an example of Nordic cinema and the cruelty of childhood. Sober and elegant in its staging, The Innocents is clean and offers an eight enclosed between four HLM where childhood experiences the limits of power. Again, tension is queen from beginning to end. A Scandinavian film with Speak No Evil Remember that the North has been at the forefront of genre cinema in recent years.

My review and Blu-ray test
Interview with Eskyl Vogt

Nights of MashhadNights of Mashhad, a movie before custody

Iranian cinema is gaining even more interest as the facts they denounce are at the forefront of the current Iranian revolt. Before the Islamic revolution of 1979 and despite the existence of strong censorship under the Shah regime, Iranian cinema still managed to produce varied works covering all genres.

But since the advent of the Islamic Republic and today the Iranian youth revolt, producing a film with exploitative visas is a puzzle that requires to demonstrate a crazy inventiveness as foreign supporters. A power at the end of the reign increased pressure on artists and sought to make cinema an ideological vector of propaganda. While actress Taraneh Alidoosti revealed by Leila and her brothers has just been arrested, supporting Iranian cinema finds a special resonance today.

After Tehran Law Saeed Roustayi or Black market d-Abbas Amini, Nights of Mashhad Iranian (and Danish) director Ali Abassi particularly moved this year. "A father of a family embarks on his own religious quest: cleaning the holy city of Mashhad from prostitutes". A journalist will then conduct the investigation to reveal the origin of the killer while the police are not in a hurry to resolve the investigation. Nights of Mashhad reveals all the fractures of Iranian society, some of which will not hesitate to make the killer a martyr. Drawing from a true story, the film is a heartbreak on the transmission of deadly values by fundamentalism and religious fanaticism. A striking film from beginning to end.

The BatmanThe Batman, a long halloween twilight

Let's finish with a blockbuster and not the least: The Batman. Returning to the sources of the greatest private detective, camped here by a twilight Robert Pattinson, Batman's vampirical figure is the most prominent. The blundered complexion, the angular face and the hair in battle, young Bruce Wayne lives in the pain of eternal mourning: that of his parents shot by the mafia in a dark alley like Gotham is full of it. In light years of the billionaire's insurance and bragging over its quarantine in the previous stages, it is a much less assertive and seductive Batman who dominates here.

Quasi gothic with its slow gait and leather boots, Robert Pattinson looks depressive in this feature film - a little long and far from perfect - but so bold in shape. In light years of Marvel, DC has been borrowing since Joker a much more marked authoring path that proves that one can very well make a superhero movie (more) intelligent while respecting comics.

My review and 4K Ultra HD test
20 comics to tame the bat

Unicorn WarsThe real one « eco-friendly fable » of the end of the year is Spanish and it is called... Unicorn Wars !

Well... I cheated I added a sixth film that I had unjustly forgotten as I discovered a moment ago in Annecy... I would have felt a rag not to talk aboutUnicorn Wars, while he just came out at the end of December as a late Chronopost gift from a Santa Claus avenged at Christmas Eve. What better way to end the year 2022 than cubs who wage a holy war against unicorns?

Under his mescaline-lighted bisounours, Unicorn Wars is much more than an anime gore. The director Alberto Vázquez uses the art of subversion to better serve us an intelligent fable and directly questions our relationship to Other as to Nature. By alternating the registers to better cover up the codes, Unicorn Wars goes from comics to slashers to tragedy. Unicorn Wars is a powerful pamphlet against Man and his relation to otherness, but also against the domination of Nature. An instant classic that shows a radicality that I don't like Cameron.

My review with the interview with Alberto Vázquez

Your 2022 decision?

If Matrix Resurrections for calendar reasons, I could have cited the waste Jurassic World: The World After (unjustly rewarded at the box office), but that would have been dishonest, since who says disappointment says hope. But there is nothing more to expect from the franchise after the second part. Same for Buzz That was really bad for Pixar. Far from being a bad film, the last James Gray also left on my hunger by his academicism and lack of emotional involvement. So thinking about it and even typing in the anthill, I'd say Dune that I found much too smooth despite a quality realization.

Dune (2021)DuneThe cold desert?

While Blade Runner 2049 is a monument and a film so free in approach, I found Villeneuve more locked by Hollywood codes with Dune. If the realization remains good, the film is rather flat, sadly predictable (hucking the death of Uncle Dadass) and so unviolent. For a desert supposedly invivable, not a drop of sweat on the characters. Never.

Everyone is clean and on his 31 even in the middle of the box. We're a few light years away from an organic film like Alien where it sucks until almost make us feel the smell of sweat dying the screen. This is a pity because the verses are successful and general aesthetics remains under control, but there was room to do something less academic and otherwise warmer. Laying down your universe is good, telling something is better. Maybe for the next few?

THE FILM THAT YOU NOTE ON YOUR CALENDAR IN 2023?

If we see a lot of the spielbergian sect paluching on Twitter on the very promising The FabelmansI'm as curious as I'm afraid to see what an American like Ridley Scott can do with Napoleon, a figure so politically marked. However, the director had already shown what he was capable of with the excellent The Last Duel and with Joaquin Phoenix at the casting, hard not to pack. To a lesser extent, for the French this time, it must be recognised that large-scale production The Three Musketeers Shut up!

Apart from indecisive surprises that will not fail to train the festivals, I wait firm foot Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. The first was a slam in the world of animation and the extract that I saw in front of first eight closed at Annecy is super promising. This is the film that I expect most in 2023.

My first impressions since Annecy

Spider-Man: Alone against AllWaited for 2 June 2023, Spider-Man: Alone against All Will he live up to my expectations?

To relax, I'd go see that good old man. John Wick who should still kill a bunch of mobsters to avenge his dog. I secretly hope that the next one Evil Dead will be at the level of the last, still unmatched in terms of the bloody house special effects. I am also intrigued by Mario's arrival on a large screen and waiting for a bit of daring for the second Dune. Because you have to laugh a little in this world of bullies, I also wait Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey who doesn't look like flying high, but is intriguing with such a synopsis.

YOUR RESOLUTION FOR 2023?

Even if the world turns into chaos sauce Mad Max in the Soviets, I guarantee you that MaG will cover the last festivals of the apocalypse, in the joy of the end of the world and the smell of a last peasant schnapps. I'm already glad.

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and HoneyI always knew that a bear that didn't wear briefs wasn't frequentable.

The Celeste Wolf's Assessment

Your eyes on the year 2022?

While the year just passed saw SVOD platforms return brutally to reality, the golden period being now behind us with the « end » The French box office was dominated by American productions (Avatar: Waterway, Top Gun: Maverick and The Minions 2: Once upon a time Gru for the lead trio) and not French.

Top Gun: MaverickTop Gun: Maverick has humbly crossed the sound wall of the French box office

Not appearing on the podium of the 10 biggest hits of the year, the French cinema will unfortunately have been in pain when the offer was generous (309 films were screened) and the quality proposals were not lacking (Farewell Mr. Haffmann, As Bestas, Cut!, In body, Smoking makes cough, Kompromat, Night of the 12th, The Five Devils, The Vedettes, November, Ogre, Pacification and I'm passing by). To find the first production made in France in this box office, you must reach 11th place with What have we all done to God?. A situation that had never happened since 1989!

What have we all done to God?What have we all done to God? to the rescue of the tricolor cinema

Would this misperformance be due to the health conditions that were still difficult? Do we have to worry about financing authors' films or discoveries? Only the future will tell us, but it is important to go to the cinema! Do not be fooled by Netflix who claims that the cinemas are condemned to disappear, not even by the giant Disney who raised the tone against the chronology of the media while its main purpose is to safeguard the exploitation in the movie theater.

SVODSVOD, a serious competitor to obcured rooms?

Dear readers, it is thanks to you that the cinema will not disappear from the theaters... Get out of your home and make yourself several canvases, the funeral eulogy of the big screen not yet come! And by the way, be curious... For yes, the 7th art is not limited to blockbusters and other production formatted for the greatest number.

THE FIVE FILMS WHO MARKED YOU IN 2022?

If I have been « Private » Festivals in 2022 for professional reasons, this did not stop watching nearly 200 films (of which 90% on physical media, this is also how to live in the mountains) of all nationalities and all kinds. And if the big machinery that is the masterful anti-war work To the west nothing new, the non-stop action concentrate with hallucinating formal fulgurances Ambulance (Michael Bay, King of Pyrotechnics), the new revolution Avatar: Waterway (the special effects of the MCU are getting rid of), the epic Viking drama worthy of entering the Valhalla The Northman and extremely well controlled Top Gun: Maverick (the solar sunset of the hero Tom Cruise) « Pulse » My film year, five other productions have managed to seduce me even more... 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Action!

AmbulanceAmbulance or the hymn to the chaos of Michael Bay

Athena : A twilight-style exercise conceived as a great tragedy-molotov that n'assens no truth (no social study or political message) and chooses to « Look » The fate of three brothers who tear themselves apart. And governed by a unit of place (a suburbs) and time (one night), this technical tower of force (delusional plans-sequences) on the background of riot restores chaos with a rare fury to remind us better that violence only generates violence. In summary, a visually stinging nihilist opera where everyone at his shadow share.

My SVOD test

AthenaAthena, Netflix's shock movie

Spencer : Shakespeareal Tragedy at the edge of horror, this true biopic in camera with contemplative beauty procession Kristen Stewart, whose feverish performance is to be greeted, between the corridors of « Hotel Overlook » to better plunge us into the tortured soul (and harassed mind) of a princess in dire distress of fragility. Dark and distressing, this heartbreaking tribute to the misunderstood Diana Spencer is not a mockery!

My Blu-ray test

SpencerSpencer, the royal nightmare of Prime Video (for France)

The Batman : In this anti-spectacular blockbuster that gives back « colours » to the (very) black Knight, the Avenger Bat and the neurotic Wayne venture on the side of the peaty thriller with strong fincherian consonance. Initiating a lasting malaise, this initiatory investigation which has nothing superheroic leads us, in fact, to the bottoms of a rainy Gotham gangred by corruption and violence where the staging is classy, the ubiquitous suspense, characters full of characters (between cult comics) Long Halloween and narrative arch Silence) and high-fly casting. Definitely captivating and definitely grunge, this renaissance that imposes its slow step is darker than ever!

My 4K Ultra HD Test

The BatmanThe Batman, the rebirth of the bat

The Innocents : Between intimate chronicle and psychological thriller, this hypnotic supernatural fable that probes the darkness of childhood (young actors are very impressive) by the prism of a fantastic refusing to the spectacular, relies on a sensitive approach where tension is internalized to create a disturbing anxiety that goes crescendo. An icy jewel!

My Blu-ray test

The InnocentsThe Innocents, the worrying bambins from the cold

Vesper Chronicles : Influenced by David Cronenberg, H.R. Giger and Hayao Miyazaki, this elegiac fable of anticipation where the wonderful mixes with the strange revives the European SF too often enslaved to Hollywood codes. The post-apo bio universe is credible, the characters are firmly encamped, the artistic direction manifests an inventiveness of each plan and the narrative, even if classical, stimulates curiosity. Seriously thoughtful, this intimate work makes man prevail over the spectacular.

My 4K Ultra HD Test

Vesper ChroniclesVesper Chronicles, the European organic post-apo

And since I did not expect such a surprise especially, especially on Disney+ where the original productions are mostly mediocre (disenchantment Once upon a time 2), I wanted to award a « heartbeat » to Prey where, returning (in the past), the Predator « parachute » hunting a young Comanche in a survival « primitive » and visually sleek that has a lucky face. Fresh blood for the saga (already the 5th opus for Stan Winston's creature) where the survival instinct of the two hunters will lead them to a strong, violent arm of hell.

Prey (2022)Prey (2022), a return to unexpected sources

Your 2022 decision?

If the box-office scores remain impressive, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is starting to tire me seriously since the end of 2021 with the fan service web Spider-Man: No Way Home. As the body of this large machinery is much less gleaming than in the past, disappointments are accumulating and the ingredients of the recipe are getting worse and worse. Let us hope that the arrival of phase 5 will allow the Marvel studio to start again on new bases.

Thor: Love and ThunderThor: Love and Thunder, end of love for Marvel?

But the problem does not only affect Marvel Studios, because apart from the exceptions that are Prey, The Batman, Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: WaterwayThe magic was tarnished, exhausted by the Hollywood laundry woman who stopped recycling her franchises until she was clean. So it's no coincidence that my biggest disappointments concern the sixth and fifth parts of the sagas. Jurassic and Scream

Jurassic World: The World After : Torching with the promise made at the end of Fallen Kingdom and metastasized by the worst tares of the Hollywood blockbuster today, this Jurassic Portnawak that begins as a Fast & Furious driven by James Bond before manoeuvring to a stupid remake of the Part one « Boosted » to the dishonest fan-service, is a cinematic mess where dinosaurs, very badly exploited and as frightening as a Chihuahua at a Chanel parade, do nothing but figurative (while they are numerous) in an absurd mountain. The intrigue is off-topic, the screenplay facilities as big as an Indominus Rex doped with growth hormone, the flat staging as possible, the indigent rhythm, the scenes of action in autopilot, the characterization of absent characters (the old ones have not evolved in almost 30 years), the actors at the pick-up (poor Jeff Goldblum), the suspense and tension in the process of extinction, the cult scenes imagined by Spielberg singed without an ounce of talent and worse than anything, knowing that the film is based only on them, the quality of the regularly defective special effects (between inlays and blurred textures). Disenchanted and disincarnated, this patchwork badly jerked from the saga is a scam where emptiness and stupidity triumph over everything else. Too old for this shit? Maybe!

My 4K Ultra HD Test

Jurassic World: The World AfterJurassic World: The World After, extinguishing the franchise?

Scream (2022): If this (unwanted) renaissance ceased to pay homage to the first episode (and at Wes Craven) until she returned to the crime scene, she never managed to renew the slasher's formula (used up to the rope) and turned into a mischievous meta discourse (the concept was much sharper 25 years ago). Little inspired, covered by lazy attacks and populated by characters to slam, this suite that forgot the suspense on the doorstep (Billy Loomis does not haunt the film) « screaming » with all its forces already seen (a pastiche of the best moments of the saga). To return (the 6th opus was officially launched), the franchise will have to question itself (and not just a little) because it has been in circles for a very long time. But when she takes refuge in the past, can she only?

My 4K Ultra HD Test

Scream (2022)Scream (2022), the phone is crying!

THE FILM THAT YOU NOTE ON YOUR CALENDAR IN 2023?

If I feed much hope in Dune – Part Two, Indiana Jones and the dial of destiny (James Mangold compulsory), Oppenheimer (after Tenet for Christopher Nolan) and Spider-Man: Alone against All, is the new adaptation of the Three Musketeers, the pantacruel diptych of French cinema worn by a 5-star casting directed by Martin Bourboulon (Eiffel), which puts water in my mouth.

Will he reconcile the French public with the fictions of cape and sword? Will he get a place in the top 10 of the French box office 2023? It is with care that I will follow his journey with Artagnan on 5 April and Milady 13 December.

The Three Musketeers (2023)The Three Musketeers (2023), the blockbuster intended for « Save » French cinema

YOUR RESOLUTION FOR 2023?

Go back to the festival in January with Gérardmer from Wednesday 25 to Sunday 29, continue testing lots of records from all continents, discover nuggets not put forward by the big distribution and take MaG ever further!

The report of Mr Wilkes

Your eyes on the year 2022?

This past year 2022 is for me the year of an excellent vintage of the seventh art, with more than ever an amazing creation and discoveries that will certainly remain in my memory. At the same time, the situation seems to have never been so precarious for theatre operators and the cultural press. Strange schism, which makes me dread 2023, not without succeeding not to stumble with impatience against the titles that announce, the festivals that I will be able to find and the inescapable new cinematic discoveries that I hope will mark the coming year as much as 2022.

THE FIVE FILMS WHO MARKED YOU IN 2022?

Perhaps one of my greatest discoveries of the year lies in the beginning of exploration of a filmography that I had never dared to discuss: that of Jean-Luc Godard. Reputated hermetic, intellectual, complicated – is it not a former Minister of Culture who qualified him with the terms of « deep boredom » ? – the Godard world had always kept away. And yet, when he died, despite the morale Fourest and the boredom of the ex-minister, smugglers managed to motivate me to, at least once, try the experience of his cinema. Well, he took it because with The Mepristhen Out of breathI've probably seen two of the most important feature films this year. Far from an abscontic hermeticism, I have eaten a filmmaker of the sensory, absolutely exciting in the freedoms that he authorizes (and that it is only too rarely allowed today).

Jean-Luc GodardJean-Luc Godard, the great provocateur of the New Wave, died at the age of 91

Let us make a big gap and approach this year's horrific production. Notably at the NIFFF (Festival of the Fantasy Film of Neuchâtel), thanks to which I was able to live two of my most important sessions of the year: Deadstream Winter and Men d-Alex Garland. The two programmed in a midnight projection, in absolutely crowded rooms.

My review of Deadstream

DeadstreamDeadstream, soubresauts d'une genre en perdition ?

The fourth film I want to talk about is EO Jerzy Skolimowski. Filmmaker whom I had discovered (and loved) earlier in the year, thanks to a recommendation on Twitter, via her best-known film of the 1970s: Deep End. Today, 84 years old, the Polish filmmaker offers us his tribute to Bresson (and his legendary Au Hasard Balthazar) with EO, the name of the asine onomatopoeia « hi-han » in Polish version. Projected as part of the GIFF (International Festival of the Geneva Film), he desolated himself from all narration by literally leaving his donkey to mount his film. A formally breathtaking beauty, EO also means an animalist manifesto that has decided not to leave the festivalgoers marble.

EOEO, donkey who examines society

And how to complete this review of this film year without mentioning Pacification which was, without hesitation, the most beautiful surprise of 2022. Almost three hours of a cinema completely unwinds scriptual constraints, yet captivating from end to end. If Benoît Magimel delivers an actor's performance that is the most impressive of his career, it is especially the Albert Serra method that makes this film so singular: three small cameras, a majority of non-professional actors, a lot of improvisation or text given to the earpiece and an obligation to continue playing, no matter what happens on the stage. In short, a cinema that gives itself time (more than 540 hours of rushes!) and allows the unexpected to slip into the film. Magistral!

PacificationPacification – Touring the islands, a bewitching journey to the end of hell

Your 2022 decision?

The two worst sessions of the year were, without a doubt, With love and ardour by Claire Denis and Brother and Sister Arnaud Desplechin. A disappointment all the greater for the second, since I had been pleasantly surprised by one of his previous films, Roubaix, a light (2019). But it must be noted that they are not part of my predilection genres and that my little disappointment was more translated into a (long) suffering during the projection than a real post-vision tear.

Brother and SisterBrother and Sister, unending family melody

Where films are most disappointed, it may be in the horrific genre where the concept of Don-t Worry Darling and The Menu I was totally attracted and promised me stylized and terrifying horror films. Both fail, to varying degrees, to convey the slightest sensation to the viewer. There are still smooth shows and a long stretch, which will not have the panache of a Barbarus or the audacity of a Deadstream Unfortunately, they have not been able to make their way to halls.

The MenuThe Menu left on my hunger

THE FILM THAT YOU NOTE ON YOUR CALENDAR IN 2023?

The film that holds my most attention – and whose final result I fear most – is probably the next Ari Aster: Beautiful Is Afrid. Strange title for this horrific comedy with lead role Joaquin Phoenix and Nathan Lane, whose final release date has not yet been announced by A24.

Beautiful Is AfridBeautiful Is Afrid, the next highly anticipated film by Ari Aster

And if not, I am obviously waiting for the next release of The Fabelmans One part since it's a Spielberg, but also (let's admit) to have the pleasure of finding David Lynch on the screen, for lack of a new film from him.

YOUR RESOLUTION FOR 2023?

Take some quantum physics classes to finally manage to split me up and be able to follow all the sessions of my favorite film festivals, without learning after the fact that I missed THE best film of the year.

JV critic and film always ready to lead Interviews at festivals! Amateur of genre films and everything that tends to the strange. Do not hesitate to contact me by consulting my profile.

Nyctalope like Riddick and with a very good hearing, I am ready to jump on physical editions and SVOD platforms. But if the quality isn't on the rendezvous, stop at the bite! #WeLovePhysicalMedia

Drinking the Stephen Kings as the apricot syrup of my native country, I first discovered cinema through its (often bad) adaptations. I'm married to Mrs. Wilkes as much as a persistent Stockholm syndrome, I am gradually opening up to videoclub films and B-series peasers.Today, I wander between my favorite cinemas, film festivals and the edges of Helvetic lakes much less calm than they look.

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