A pop icon, household dramedy and explosive plotline: The most recent in French cinema

Critic Perrine Quennesson takes us via the most recent releases on this planet of French cinema, with two household tales that transport us to convincing variations of France within the Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Nineties. “My Mom, God, And Sylvie Vartan” tells the story of a faithful mom, performed by Leïla Bekhti, who is ready to maneuver mountains for her son. In the meantime “Queen Mother” charts an immigrant household’s expertise as they arrive up in opposition to stereotypes about North Africans and try to beat the obstacles planted of their path; the movie additionally gives a comical and fantastical tackle one of many bogeymen of French historical past lessons. A volcano getting ready to eruption in Guadeloupe distils social and political tensions in “Magma” and we focus on Thierry Frémaux’s love letter to the Lumière brothers, as he paperwork the delivery of cinema and its trendy conventions.