It’s not all about Cannes, contrary to popular belief (which doesn’t mean nothing happens there!), which is why we always enjoy visiting festivals with more modest ambitions, such as the renowned Dinard British and Irish Film Festival, which, while constantly renewing itself and changing its name in a surprising and probably marketing way, continues to offer us, year after year, a program that stands out, and contains its share of excellent surprises. We could have discovered it in Venice, at the Settima della critica to be exact, where it won – a fortiori it was deserved- the Audience Award, but it was in Dinard, in the Young Talent competition (which this year surpassed the official competition), that we had the chance to discover our favorite film, so British in spirit (Jethro Massey reveals that Whitnail and I and Harold and Maude were probably his two major influences), the singular Paul and Paulette take a bath, which left Dinard with the Jeune Talent de demain prize.
Jethro Massey‘s eclectic approach, animated by a manifest flame, a libertarian (liberating?) energy, and a loving gaze on his characters, despite the fascination for morbidity that unites them, draws us into his facetious, referential universe, with its political and philosophical thought, sublimated by the photography and the touching interpretation of the two main performers (Marie Benati and Jérémie Galiana). This film, to be discovered as soon as it is released on screens, apart from the pleasure it brings, can only make us wonder… Jethro and Marie, whom we were fortunate enough to meet, enthusiastically share a few of their trade secrets with us…
