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Review of Palm Trees and Power Lines

Webmestre — 2022-11-03T14:56:39Z

Palm Trees and Power Lines by Jamie Dack

This movie deals with the summer of a teenage girl named Lea. She's 17 and during her Summer break Lea meets a man of 34 named Tom. They start a relationship. Lea life's is already difficult, her father is absent , she had an hard relationship with her mother and her friend and what this is what pushed her into the arms of Tom . She becomes isolated from her family and her friends. Then Tom and Lea decide to go on vacation together and it's at this moment that we realize the influence that Tom has on Lea. He asks her to prostitute herself for him… for love and she does it. After that she runs away from him to only to return to his arms.

I think this film shows the reality of some teenagers. Indeed, this movie highlights affective dependency, toxic relationships, manipulation, the kind of thing that happens more than often than we think. However some scenes of the movie were very difficult and uncomfortable to watch. Finally I think that the goal of this film is to raise public awareness for teenagers or just people on the fact that we should not accept everything for love, to be vigilant, to get know the person well before start a relationship because
like we say love is blind.

Written by DELAHAYE Clara

Review of Dual n°2

Webmestre — 2022-11-03T14:53:01Z

Dual Film de Riley Stearns · 134 min · 20 May 2022

First of all, it's a science fiction thriller and comedy movie about a young girl named Sarah and she's sick with an incurable disease and only a 2% chance of survival.
She learns that she's going to die so she creates a clone in a medical center so her family are less sad.
But she then learns that she's not sick anymore and she has to fight her clone's for her own life. It's Sarah or Sarah double. They cannot both surivive and they must fight a duel.
After that she trains herself very hard for the fight but it's postponed because of the bad weather.
Her family prefer the double and the toxic relationship with her boyfriend, Peter, means that he leaves her for the double. his name his Peter.
With her clone Sarah decides to leave and gone into the forest to escape the duel but the clone poisons the real Sarah. So when she arrives at the fight, only the clone came so she is declared the winner.

This movie is about who really cares about us and makes us question what we value the most. The movie is described like unique, authentic and audacious.

Written by HUREL-SCHREINER Lyla

Review of Emily the Criminal n°2

Webmestre — 2022-11-03T14:49:59Z

Emily the criminal is a Drama film written and directed by John Patton Ford.
The main character Emily is a young, determined woman with a criminal record and a lot of student debt. Emily has too many debts and no real job to pay it off so she ends up joining an illegal network which is not without consequences. In fact, this film takes us into the dark side of Los Angeles and more generally of the United States. The director shows us, through this film, that it is difficult for a large number of people to pay the university and a lot of other things and later to repay sometimes really high debts and therefore enjoy a good life. But above all, it highlights that the American Dream is only an illusion through a woman who will do EVERYTHING to get out of it and pay her debts.
I enjoyed this film, the action, the fact that the main character is an independent and determined woman. However, I didn't really like the ending, I was expecting a twist in the plot. I understand why she did it but I did not find her action courageous, it was for me a bit cowardly. I really feel that for her all that mattered was the money the rest was not important. But being selfish was perhaps her only chance of survival. She chose herself that's probably what anyone in her situation would do and maybe that's what is brave, she'll have to live with her action for the rest of her life.
Life does not always have a happy ending.

Written by BAUDRIBOIS Charlie

Review of Emily the Criminal

Webmestre — 2022-11-03T14:48:26Z

Hello, we are going to introduce you to a movie called Emily the criminal by John Patton Ford who is a thriller and a drama. So this movie is about the life of Emily Benetto, a young woman graduate who works in the restaurant business while waiting to find a real job to pay her student debts. She goes through several job interviews without success because she has a criminal record, until a colleague gives her a suspicious phone number. Emily finds herself embroiled in illegal business dealings where she also has a love story with the manager, Youcef, and sees her life derailed and plunged into the criminal underworld of Los Angeles. Obviously, this movie has a social impact, because it talks about the criminal and illegal world that Emily falls into, but also toxic love relationships like Emily and Youcef's, and finally today's society that values certain "social classes". To conclude, in our opinion, this film is really good and we really like it because, first of all, the actors play very well and we are really immersed in the story. Secondly, the subjects covered are deep and we think it's good to talk about them in the film industry. Thirdly, we discover the universe of the credit card scam, something not very well known. Finally, having been able to see and hear the director, this film is all the more touching because it's sometimes inspired by the life of the director. We recommend this movie because it is really good, and I think it can appeal to different audiences.

Written by Célia DUNACH, Julianne FAUCON and Emma PRUDHOMME

Review of Dual

Webmestre — 2022-11-03T14:45:36Z

The day at the Deauville American Film Festival on Friday, September 9, begins at 10:30 a.m. at the Center International de Deauville with a first film preview, "Emily the criminal" in which judges such as Eddy de Pretto were present.
Director John Patton Ford presented this film himself and answered questions from the audience. The pupils of the première euro history and terminal euro history and English LLCE then had free time under the sun, in order to see the second film of the day, two choices were proposed by the teachers in order to respect schedules, each personally choosing the movie they will watch:

– "Palm Trees and Power Lines" by Jamie Dack at 2:00 p.m. at the Deauville casino

– "Dual" by Riley Stearns at 3 p.m. at the Morny cinema in Deauville.

Having watched Dual, we are going to present this film more precisely.
This preview therefore took place in the small hall of the Morny cinema in Deauville at 3:00 p.m. The director of Dual, Riley Stearns has created a science fiction film mixed with thriller in which we are immersed in a futuristic vision of cloning.

Sarah, a young depressed woman, in the terminal phase of her illness, participates to a cloning program existing so that the entourage of the dying will not be devastated after the person's death.
So she will clone herself and teach her double how to live in the same way as her, to have the same tastes and the same life.
However, she's going to know later, a miraculous remission. But, her double already having an important place within her life, Sarah will wish to delete it but will have to do it via a dual where the original and the double must legally face each other until death, to know between both who is going to stay and become the original one.

The end of this film is quite unpredictable, we follow her journey all along and observe the damage caused by some scientific innovations.

We really enjoyed first of all, the representation of a female character for this movie and secondly the way they created her, more truthful and complex unlike the most part of the main female characters that look like each other. To put her forward on a topic about science fiction particularly captivating and a new concept was really pleasant.

This day in Deauville was really rewarding and entertaining for, I suppose, all of us. We loved it !

GUERZA - AUTRET Sarra 1G6
FERET Agathe 1G4

Deauville american film festival

Webmestre — 2022-09-19T13:57:33Z

On the 9th september, our students had the chance to go to the Deauville american film festival.
They watched two movies in English with the presence of the realisator for one of them !
The students will soon write critics about the movies.