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L'amour ouf (2024)
Just watch the first act, its pretty good.
The first part, with the kids, is pretty good. The film should have ended there for the sake of audience. And Gilles Lellouche would have directed one of the best French teenage romances of the decade.
The rest of the movie, the second act, is horrible. The actors François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos lack chemistry together, their acting in this movie are bland and without compromise. I suspect both actors should start rethinking their own careers in French cinema once the two newcomers Mallory Wanecque and Malik Frikah outshine them and steal the show in this confusing mediocre movie.
At first it seems the movie strikes as a modern take of The Count of Monte Cristo .. I mean the old story of the wronged young rebel guy who returns for revenge and the search for his loved one. However it falls out with
exaggerated and caricatured toxic masculinity. A stylized and tacky male gaze. And in the half and end of second act the plot ends up losing credibility.
The problem, beyond the burden of everything, is the strange determination that the film shows in claiming originality in each shot it offers without achieving it even once. Every time it comes to deciding,it always opt for the most formal, the most obvious. What we have already seen. And so, it repeats, for three hours of the closest thing to a French blockbuster, with a good marketing and PR behind it, it is that the French audiences are going to see this year.
Saltburn (2023)
Cliché
The film mixes good technical elements, such as production, direction and acting, with a poor script. The story works based on the greatest possible narrative conventions, such as deaths occurring in sequence without the slightest police investigation work to find the clear and obvious culprit. The protagonist's power of seduction only exists because it does. There is no development of the relationship until it reaches the sex scenes, it simply happens when the script requires it and the protagonist needs it. These disturbing scenes are just strange. Strange and disgusting. It's not shocking or anything, you just regret wasting your time watching a work so bad and hostile to good art and the slightest sense of aesthetics. Social criticism of the habits of the bourgeois class in contrast to the poorest layers of society is as deep as a saucer. Too cliché and other films, like Parasite, Triangle of Sadness, did it much better.
And the final scene was like hitting the final nail in the coffin of what I consider the worst film of the year. Simply horrible.