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Clichés are always stronger than us. We should not avoid it, but rather abandon it, catch it to leave it (rather than fall back into it), or at least train it like wild animals in a circus. A welcome attitude in all fields, and especially in the field of psychology. Since his first feature film, Beautiful Thorns (2010), filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski is able to emerge, on the whole, as a beautiful shell of so-called “psychological” cinema, from which we expect “accuracy” – which is often another name for the cliche.
his new film, Personalillustrates a romantic and fun tone, which is already starting to work Planetarium (2016). Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp play two American spiritualist sisters on tour in Paris on the eve of the Second World War, and are brought into the film project by a Jewish producer (Emmanuel Salinger). There’s a strong historical and psychological charge there, at least, but also the temptation of the serial novel, with its indulgence in grand plots, its rattling of stereotypes, from the most vain to the most serious.
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