Killers of the Flower Moon, A Difficult Year, Anselm... Films to watch or avoid this week

Thriller de Martin Scorsese, 3h26

Uprooted from their original lands by the government, the Osage tribes were allocated arid lands in Oklahoma which turned out to be saturated with oil. The Indians are so rich that they don't know what to do with them. One detail: they benefit from their fortune, but are placed under guardianship. The whites will use a variety of means to rob them, the most reliable being to marry a squaw. In 1920, Ernest returned from the front. This lover has a rigorous schedule: partying all night and sleeping all day. This program has its limits, even for a boy who did not invent gunpowder. Fortunately, his uncle puts him back on the right path. On her advice, the nephew agrees to marry the sweet Mollie, with her long braid and her colorful blankets which serve as shawls. The Indian woman has diabetes. The brave Ernest injects him with insulin mixed with poison. Around them, suspicious deaths follow one another. Inheritances change hands. This bizarre massacre ended up worrying Washington. The mythology is there, with a final sequence where Martin Scorsese appears in the flesh. The past is a devastated plain, a field of flames and desolation. Scorsese has achieved the equivalent of the great American novel on screen. We discover the foundations on which the United States was built. IN.

Also readOur review of Killers of the Flower Moon, the new film by Martin Scorsese: be careful, masterpiece

Comedy by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, 1h59

Albert and Bruno are at the end of their tether. The first, who works in Roissy, sells lost objects. The second is in the depths of depression. They meet by chance around a stolen television. That's a pair. One owes everyone money. The other swallows barbiturates. In front of the inanimate body of Jonathan Cohen, Pio Marmaï on the phone responds to his interlocutor who advises him to call the 18th: “But it's the 15th, we're not going to wait three days! » There is the feverish and the relaxed, like in a fable by La Fontaine. Their idea is to crash into a charity to get free drinks. The cause of “Objectif terre”, we will see later. Beers first. They politely attend conferences, agree to have nicknames (“Chick”, “Lexo”), squint at a brunette activist with bangs. This protests against Black Friday, talks about global warming. The laughter is there. The authors took risks. The truth is that they are doing brilliantly. Welcome, then, to 2023. E.N.

Also read: Our review of “A Difficult Year: Small Schemes and Great Resourcefulness Between Friends”

Animated film by Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach, 1h16

The colorful bubbles, yellow, orange, green, burst on the screen, jump, ricochet, before shrinking and disappearing. A fireworks display of colors and movements against memories that are forgotten, images that fade. Linda, a mischievous 8-year-old girl, no longer remembers her dad very well, who died when she was very young. So the day her mother, to redeem herself after an unjust punishment, asks her what she wants, she asks for... a chicken. Not the children's favorite nuggets, nor the Sunday lunch roast chicken, but an even more special dish: the chicken with peppers "Roman style" that he prepared for them. “ Promise, swear, vomit? » Before cooking it, you must already find one, on a day of general strike when all the stores are closed. The bird hunt will turn out to be incredible and not to be stung by the capons. Linda Wants Chicken!, awarded the prestigious Feature Film Crystal at the last Annecy International Animated Film Festival, is the lovely pop and poetic surprise of the holidays, perfect for a family cinema outing. V.B.

Also readOur review of Linda Wants Chicken!: in the big leagues

Documentary by Wim Wenders, 1h34

When Wim Wenders looks at Anselm Kiefer, it is also Germany that looks at itself. They were both born at the end of the Second World War. Anselm Kiefer, March 8, 1945 in Donaueschingen, a town in the Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg. Wim Wenders on August 14, 1945 in Düsseldorf, West Germany, on the Rhine. The same age, the same culture, two perfectionist temperaments, serious beyond reason, anchored in history, but very different. One is a filmmaker, master of a romanticism that is sometimes expressionist (Wings of Desire, 1987), sometimes elliptical and haunting (Paris Texas, 1984), always nostalgic. The other is a total artist who has built his universe around his painting, haunted by History and the voice of poets, making his workshops, from Barjac, near Nîmes, to Croissy-Beaubourg (Seine-et-Marne ), the very first of his works. The meeting of the two gives Anselm, a rather silent, majestic and tender film about a biting, ironic and impatient artist. V.D.

À lire aussiNotre critique d'Anselm: tout Wenders en un film sur l'art