"Flee", "Beast": which films to see this week?
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- 31 Aug 2022
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Combining documentary and fiction, television news archives in the 1980s, animation sequences, monologue etc., "Flee", literally "Flee", escapes any categorization by its very form. Freed from codes, filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen invents a language, a chronology. With exceptional fluidity, the story slips from one subject and from one era to another, lingering over a nuance or, on the contrary, skipping an explanation.
While this flexibility might create confusion, it establishes its own narrative time. This cinematographic essay invites an intimate conversation, that of a shrink and his patient on the couch, that of friends subdued through the keyhole. The animation here, in addition to its potential detached from the economic concerns inherent in shooting live, poses this filter which authorizes all shamelessness. The destiny of Amir, released from the state jails of his native Afghanistan, released from the taboos of his personal closet, can then take shape.
“An ordinary emergency”, hospital and choir
A hospital, destinies that converge. A young man stepping over a bridge and jumping. Parents who take their son without suspecting that his condition will be more serious than expected. Financial problems that get involved. An unrelated miscarriage complicates matters further. In this fiction, which is already four years old (!), and after "Miscreants" whose qualities we highlighted in 2011, the director Mohcine Besri, confirms his ability to manage a story that is a priori complex given its choral structure and its appetite to want to embrace several themes.
The actors are very well directed and believe in what they are playing, inducing audience involvement. And Besri has a sense of frame that commands admiration, using the potentialities of the setting (almost always hospital interiors), such as its depth of field and its interlocking geometry. “To tell the current Morocco, in other words, a society with many evils, from my point of view, the hospital was almost ideal. I wanted to tell the whole Moroccan society in this kind of camera”, he declares by way of intention. We can only approve. Read More…
