Stella in love, 2022

 

Stella discovers the famous Parisian club, the Bains Douches, the 80s and its crazy nights. Her friends are just studying, her father has left with another woman and her mother is depressed. She works, she studies and she fell in love. This year will decide her life. 

Rating: 10 Stars

Heaven will wait/ Le Cielo attendra, 2016

Heaven Will Wait (French: Le Ciel attendra) is a 2016 French drama film directed by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar. It was selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.

Crosscutting between three storylines that come together in the final act, Mention-Schaar and co-writer Emilie Freche (The Jews) follow two young protagonists who experience the call to Jihad in mirroring narrative strands. On one side we follow Sonia (Noemie Merlant), a born-again Muslim arrested for trying to pull off an attack in France, after which she goes through a long detox process that slowly transforms her into the girl she once was. And on the other hand there’s Melanie (Naomi Amarger), a studious cello player, 16 years old, lives with her mother who meets a Islam recruiter online and gradually falls into his clutches. The movie shows their tactics to kidnap these girls to their country.

These teenage girls might be called Anaïs, Manon or Leila, and one day they all might go some way down the recruitment process. But can they ever come back from it?

Rating: 10 Stars 

The movie is super interesting, even in France with a high level of education, young girls can be trapped in the terrorism recruitment. An alert to parents. 

Patti Smith Electric Poet (2022)

 

"Patti Smith: Electric Poet" is a documentary that delves into the extraordinary life of Patti Smith, the iconic poet, actress and musician. 

Synopsis: The film explores Patti Smith's childhood, her artistic aspirations, and her multifaceted career. She once expressed, "I wanted to be someone special. I felt distant, not just from other children, but from the whole world. I spent my childhood thinking i was an alien. "Growing up in a rural New Jersey with a Jeovah's Witnessess upbringing, Smith eventually broke away from the movement to pursue her unique artistic path. 

Rating: 10 Stars