After Perdrix in 2019, Erwan Le Duc presents his second film, La fille de son père, premiering at Critics' Week at Cannes 2023. The film is due in cinemas on December 20.
Etienne is only 20 when he falls in love with Valérie. Their teenage union gives birth to their daughter Rosa (Céleste Brunnquell), but their love is as overwhelming as it is fleeting. One day, Valérie abandons them. The young father-child of the family, played by Nahuel Perez Biscayart (a dazzling revelation in Robin Campillo's 120 BPM, for which he won the César for Best Newcomer), chooses to see the glass half-full and rebuild a three-way life with his daughter and new partner (Maud Wyler), interspersed with moments of complicity.
Erwan Le Duc's skilful introductory montage takes us through the couple's meeting and life in the style of an action film on the banks of the Seine, the birth of the child, the disintegration of the couple and the abandonment of the mother in the process. With his incisive editing, the French director reveals some fine formal intentions and dozens of ideas that explode by the minute, alternating changes of frame - wide, plunges, counter-plunges - and shots - the camera is alternately embarked on a door, a car hood, or follows the characters closely in their vicissitudes.
But this avalanche offormal and aesthetic ideas gradually puts emotion at a distance, and even if laughter is present through fine dialogue and sometimes absurd and often offbeat situations, the attachment to the characters doesn't really take hold. A light, poetic film, in the manner ofAbel and Gordon's work, but one that leaves emotions a little too much to the side.
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