Bad Star – Once Upon a Time in Cinema

Sticky intimacy

After their first short film, Panthère in 2018 which was largely inspired by Yann Berlier’s mother, the two directors offer a magnificent and masterful film at the Cannes festival this year, even if it is formidable and painful to watch as they knew how to intimately enter into a toxic relationship between a man, Alex, who we would tend to describe as a narcissistic pervert, and his wife, or rather his victim, Kiki. And what could be better than a couple in the city to enter into the sticky intimacy of a couple during a scorching summer in the South of France. These passages, and not only those about the cruel intensity of their carnal relationship, are particularly painful and the viewer would only want one thing if we were in Guignol, it would be to shout at the wife: “But go away! Save yourself! » This is not done in a cinema, especially during the Cannes festival, even if the film is present in the ACID selection a little less tight-fisted.

Scorching summer

A couple in life, Lola and Yann met at the 93 conservatory, he had just resigned from his position as a philosophy teacher, and she had taken the Florent classes. They state in the film’s press kit that at the time of making Panthèrethey didn’t know how to make a film. It seems that since then they have learned because Bad star – title borrowed from an expression of Yann’s mother, mother who also plays once again in this new film – is a great success between Actor’s studio and fascinating cinema verite which demonstrates an unstoppable technique and an unparalleled direction of actors because the two main actors play as if they were non-professionals, and they are remarkable.

Incredible comedians

It must be said that Hugo Carton who plays the role of Alex has done a thousand jobs, including chicken breeder and happens to be the director’s neighbor in real life. Only Noémie Edé-Decugis in the role of Kiki was at the conservatory. The whole thing is even more powerful because the lighting and editing are provided by the two directors, assisted by Charly Caillaux for the image. In short, we will have understood, an important film on toxic relationships under the gaze of a child who does not know what to do and who is their own daughter, Anouk Berlier Cambourieu…