Bilal Hassani within the trashiest and funniest movie of the Cannes Film Festival | EUROtoday
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LThe coincidence of the calendars meant that two queer musicals would have their world premiere this Saturday on the Cannes Film Festival. On the one hand, Emilia Perez by Jacques Audiard, a wide ranging epic amongst Mexican narcos, in official competitors. The different, Drama Queens, first characteristic movie by Alexis Langlois, at Critics' Week. This newest competitors treats us to an distinctive classic, concocted by the deputy director Ava Cahen and her groups, just like the magnificent The sea within the distance Or Julie Keeps Quiet, a touching movie that addresses the difficulty of #MeToo on the earth of ladies's tennis.
Love Story trash, notably with Asia Argento and Bilal Hassani, ex-Eurovision candidate, Drama Queens is a queer musical fresco that sweeps away every part in its path. It is on no account a lesbian work, however reasonably a common romantic comedy, able to making spectators snigger and win hearts.
Passion between pop diva and punk icon
The story ? During an audition for a telecrochet, Mimi Madamou (Louiza Aura) and Billie Kohler (Gio Ventura) fall in love at first sight. Then begins an extended, tumultuous ardour between the pop diva and the punk icon, as instructed to us by a botoxed YouTuber known as Steevyshady. The latter is performed by Bilal Hassani who, in his first main position within the cinema, reveals himself hilariously as a pissed off fan, in search of the eye of others, through his publications on social networks.
We are immersed in a kitsch universe of saturated colours. The movie is carried by intoxicating songs – from the falsely candid anthem “Pastouche” to the Love Songtrash “I want to fist you to the core” (sic) – composed by Yelle and Rebeka Warrior (ex-member of Sexy Sushi ). The narrative could be very managed for a primary movie. There is, within the cinema of Alexis Langlois, an aesthetic bias as radical as it’s irresistible. As if Jacques Demy met Britney Spears in a punk bar. We love !
The Queens of Drama, by Alexis Langlois (Bac Films, 1h45), coming quickly.
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