After Perdrix in 2019, Erwan Le Duc presents his second film, La fille de son père, premiering at Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival 2023. The film is due in cinemas on December 20.
Etienne was only 20 when he fell in love with Valérie. Their teenage union produced their daughter Rosa (Céleste Brunnquell), but their love was as overwhelming as it was 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 as 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 deft introductory montage-sequence 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 couple's disintegration and the mother's subsequent abandonment. With his incisive editing, the French director reveals fine formal intentions and dozens of ideas firing off by the minute, alternating frame changes - wide, plunges, counter-plunges - and shots - the camera is alternately embarked on a car door or hood, or follows the characters closely in their vicissitudes.
But this avalanche offormal and aesthetic ideas gradually ends up distancing the emotion, and even if laughter is indeed 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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