“Flee”, “The Five Devils”, “With love and relentlessness”… Films showing this week
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THE MORNING LIST
It’s been a busy week for cinemas, which are offering us, this fall, a masterpiece of animation on the journey of a young Afghan refugee who has become a professor at the University of Copenhagen (Flee), a fantastic journey into the past through the smells and memories of a mother (The Five Devils), an exploration of feelings of love through a couple torn apart (With love and determination).
“Flee”: the drawn epic of an Afghan refugee
Sometimes it’s hard to get to the point with friends. There is the fear of being clumsy, of awakening secret violence, of crying over his mess… It took Danish filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen more than twenty years to ask his high school friend how he got to Denmark, at the age of 15, in the 1990s.
There followed a dozen interviews in which Amin recounts all about the death he has come close to since the disappearance of his father, a dissident in Kabul, arrested by mujahideen forces in 1989. And then, his family’s decision to leave the capital, their exile to Moscow on a tourist visa, the wait for immigration papers, the corrupt police, the desperate attempts to trickle his brothers and sisters into Europe…
Inspired by Israeli film Waltz with Bashir (2008), by Ari Folman, nourished by testimonies from former soldiers of the Lebanon war in 1982, Jonas Poher Rasmussen chose the form of the animated documentary to preserve his friend’s anonymity, while showing the face of a man whose speech is freed for the first time.
The discovery of the truth is done through reflections, hesitations, emotions that we see pass like shadows in the eyes of the interviewee, lying on an Afghan blanket. This recurring shot, face of today on motif of yesterday, tells in this admirable metaphor of simplicity the life of Amin, who still bears the traumas of his childhood when he became a professor at the faculty and lives in a beautiful apartment with her partner in Copenhagen. Maroussia Dubreuil
“Flee”, Franco-Danish animated documentary by Jonas Poher Rasmussen (1 h 23).
“The Five Devils”: Léa Mysius’ time machine
L’“unknown of the lake” : address a wink, in feminine version, to the film by Alain Guiraudie, a thriller that has become cult in the field of gay dating, seems quite appropriate to approach the second feature film by Léa Mysius. Not just because The Five Devils, revealed in May at Cannes at the Directors’ Fortnight, is set in snow-capped mountains overlooking clear, smooth water. But each of these two fictions, as different as they are, says something powerful about sexual freedom. In the mode of suspense with Guiraudie, in a fantastic vein with Mysius.
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