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Quelques heures de printemps (2012)
Excellent actors can't compensate a weak scenario
The best film of Brize remains as far as I am concerned "Je ne suis pas là pour etre aimé". The four main characters are well plaid by experienced actors. Lindon and Helène Vincent don't speak much, because they never did so during many years, but we feel how hard was their life when the father was still alive. The theme around cancer and life ending is courageous and going on new paths. Unfortunely, the scenario remain too very simple, the end is no surprise, just be patient because not much occurs before and after. Of course, Brize tells us a story of low class people, living in a french middle size town in Burgundy. I know people like that, even in my family. But Cinema is there to go deeper into the reasons why they are not able to speak to each other.
Also secondary characters are superficial, and out of tune ( the swiss association representatives for example).
Guerre d'Algérie, la déchirure (2012)
Algerian war documentary
Fifty years after the independence day ( 5/07/62), this historical documentary is one of the best I've seen about those events. It covers the whole period after WW two, does not balance too obviously for one side, shows very the intimate links with the french political upheaval in 58 when a new constitution is set up.
to be seen absolutely for who is trying to understand why there was no good solution, but people trapped into their own community, and false information.
The trauma has been dragging down many french troop soldiers during decades after the end of the Algerian war, because no one wad prepared to speak frankly about, and not only using "cliches" pros and cons the Arabs.
PS I lives in Algerian for two years in the 70s. What peaceful and beautiful country it used to be at this time...