Skepticism and hypochondria

“Live every day as the last - one day it turns out to be like that” - with this phrase from Woody Allen’s “secular life” that opened the Cannes Festival of the “secular life”, it is quite possible to describe the customs of Riviera. Princes for an hour in the rented "Ferrari"; Girls of a difficult fate in bonus diamonds, excluding on the terraces of Carlton and Marriott, afraid to make a mistake with the choice of a partner - there is a movie outside the Lumier Theater, no less interesting.

“Secular life”, shot by one stroke, is an eternal repetition, which has already become a classic. The conflict of the film unfolds in the 1930s in Los Angeles and New York, points of attraction of the American film industry, and cultural life in general; It is clear, on the side of which of the megacities are the sympathies of the author. Hollywood is depicted quite in the spirit of the Cohen parodies, from Barton Finn to recently “Long live Caesar!”, Except that Allen does not need hyperbole to emphasize the futility of our efforts. The world is unprotected without Allen's hypochondria, but he has become soaking his own and now takes off the life of others: meetings, parting, response and unrequited love. The double of Allen in “Secular Life” works by Jesse Aisenberg, however, his hero is only the echo of the original alien films. In the "social life" there are no neurasthenians-intellectuals who turn any trifle into a subject of psychoanalysis. The conflict of the Aisenberg character with reality is limited to an unsuccessful matchmaking to Vonni (Kristen Stewart). Following the character of Curie Stalla, who rejected Judaism in favor of the promising life of Christianity, Allen committed with spiritual torment and all sorts of self -reflection, from which the quote “perishes more people than from tuberculosis”.

But Woody's business lives - youth is now dealing with existential issues. From the weakening hands, the banner of the skepticism and hypochondria picked up Juustin Triege, from her film “In bed with Victoria”, a week of criticism began. Three, along with Guillaume, marriage and Vincent MacEan, belongs to the conditional "latest wave" of French cinema. She is not afraid to alternate a full meter with short; After the debut burlesque, the “battle of Solferino” of three years ago was followed by two short films, and now Victoria is a movie about little people who feel even less in the absence of a large narrative. The usual Gallic Marivodge, traditionally pronounced on the terraces of the Bistro 6th Arrondisman, the heroes Triege live not at all Paris addresses in the painful solitude of their untidy apartments.

“In bed with Victoria” pretends to be a romantic comedy, although it is a full -fledged drama, deeply intimistic cinema, which all an hour and a half preserves a slight breath. Here everyone is smiling, but everyone is unhappy in their own way. Social generalizations in the correct proportions are mixed by the three with incidents of private life - political views, psychological problems, sexual fiasco.

In general, if you also take into account last year’s Maryland Alice Vinokur and My King Mavenn, good forecast - French cinema is reborn from the ashes. The main thing is that the authors such as Odiara do not knock him out of the path of misanthropy with issues of national self -identification and racial tension.