L'innocent (2022)

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pouleto17
On rit, on est ému, on est en tout cas dedans du début à la fin. Un superbe film porté par d'excellents acteurs.
Louis Garrel est impecable en tout point, comme réalisateur et comme acteur. 4 months 4 weeks ago
Siskoid
In L'innocent (The Innocent), a ex-con marries his drama teacher and you really, really want it to work out. But maybe her miserable son (played by director Louis Garrel) is right to mistrust him, mistrust that plunges him into the middle of a hare-brained heist along with his dead wife's best friend played by Noémie Merlant who, quite frankly, steals the show in every scene. She's very funny AND tragic, which fits a black comedy that may be heading for outright tragedy, and makes me want to track down all her other work. As part of the scheme, there's a moment where the criminals "direct" Garrel and Merlant, which has fun meta-text, but the emotional explosion when the scene is done for real is the real standout, heartwrenching in its ambiguity. Roschdy Zem and Anouk Grindberg are great too as the older couple. I will say I'm not entirely sure the axolotl metaphor entirely connects, but if it's meant to say this is a movie about healing, then yes, I think it tracks. 8 months ago