It is not all its promises but looks with pleasure

As numb, cinema, this week, looks like the start of the fall: he hesitates, a little grey, cold, softness, tenderness and violence, and therefore allows more... warm and enthusiastic spectator. A consequence of the warming, that denounces, him, the former US Vice-President Al Gore, the Kyoto Protocol negotiator insensitively America refuses still to ratify, in a lumbering didactic, but probably necessary, documentary "an inconvenient truth" Difficult in any case distinction the news of a rare eclecticism: none is really necessary. But none is to ban...

There is, first, the films that announce the next school holidays: French a beguiling originality, both graphic cartoon that narrative: "U", Grégoire Solotareff and Serge Elissalde, history of the friendship of an orphaned Princess to the ears of dog and a small Unicorn; and two exotic childish Odyssey: "Viva Cuba", classic and touching equipped on the roads on the island of a boy and a girl who does not want to be separate, and particularly "Mongolian Ping-Pong", malicious recall through the wonder of a band of small mischievous Mongolian children to a small white ball, the disparities in the huge China... There is, also, the sights to moviegoers: first "Mala Noche", first film, filmed in 1985 and until this unreported here, by Gus Van Sant (Director of "elephant"). A test in black and white, also believed that disturbing run adapted from the journal of a poet cursed contant his lightning coup one-way for a small immigrant Mexican of sixteen years. Then "Bye Bye Blackbird", a first film, between oneirism and mélo, him, Robinson Savary (son of Jérôme), which made James Thiérrée, grandson of Chaplin and star of the scene with the four molières of his "Symphony of the Chafer", an aerial trapeze artist crazy passion. There is finally works expected to recognized performers, and producers and, this week, are also confusing that (differently) sulphur: "A crime", shot in English by the French Manuel Pradal, meets Emmanuelle Béart and Harvey Keitel on a cabled scenario of Tonino Benacquista, and wants, in a murky New York very cinégénique, compete with Hollywood black fiction. It is not all its promises, but looks with pleasure. "The man of her life", second film of Zabul Breitman, adventure, to still speak of loneliness, desire and love, on the paths of homosexuality, where expected not the Director of "remembering the beautiful things". It is a little... nice cosmetic frills abuse but, thanks to Charles Berling and Bernard Campan, intrigue, and, finally, moves.

Always on display

He was first "the" film school, "Native", which beats the records of hearing and can boast of a probably unique feat: the "musts" of the pension of the soldiers in Africa, which he recalls as classicism that of sobre emotion the merits. There are also small surprises summer films: American "little Miss sunshine", table joyously ironic deep America through a dedicated family, and "Thank You for Smoking", portrait fiercely cynical a lobbyist for the tobacco industry; and the French "La Tourneuse pages" tale of revenge in the women's classical music. Now add them the first surprise of the fall: "in Paris", where Christophe Honoré sketched with humour and tenderness two brothers (Romain Duris and Louis Garrel) who try their way to exorcise the despair and roll back the shadow of death. And again, if one accepts slow and unspoken, the very endearing "hunch" and with Jean-Pierre Darroussin, overnighting a grand-bourgeois that leaks from a novel by Emmanuel Bove, the lines.

On the small screen

Saturday: "the whole aerial", Cédric Klapisch, irresistible incursion in the human management of a department store, with Fabrice Luchini (21 hours, GST Cinéstar). Sunday: "Max and the scrap", Claude Sautet, for find Romy Schneider and Piccoli (23 h 55, Arte) or "Living a great love", Edward Dmytryk, great passion and drama Mystic by Graham Greene (h 0, 45, France 3).