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With "Connemara", Alex Lutz Filmed a Little Futile Return to the Sources

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The undeniable qualities of the director and actor's fourth feature film, adapted from Nicolas Mathieu's eponymous novel, fail to make them forget their weaknesses.

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The entertainer Alex Lutz signs a successful adaptation of Nicolas Mathieu's eponymous book, "Connemara", the summation of the social novel. All in interiority, sensuality and melancholy, the film stages in the same momentum the burning desire that embraces two staggering protagonists and the social determinism that imprisons them. We love this intense and furious cinema.

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We know the song: the beginning of September, it is the great release of the films presented in May at the Cannes Film Festival. For the worst and not for the best, alas. The adaptation of Nicolas Mathieu's successful novel did not convince Causeur. We highly appreciate the often elegant humour of Alex Lutz. His film Guy was a small miracle of true bio-false melancholic and acidic biopic. We remain much more circumspect by discovering his new pr…

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The undeniable qualities of the director and actor's fourth feature film, adapted from Nicolas Mathieu's eponymous novel, fail to make them forget their weaknesses.

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First in Partir un jour de Amélie Bonnin, journée dans Connemara de Alex Lutz... en 2025, Bastien Bouillon enchain les roles de seduceur mi-insuré, mi-dépassé, devant passer very soon behind the camera.

Connemara, the third and best film by Alex Lutz, initially leaves a curious impression of déjà vu. The heroine in burn-out who returns to her native village and unexpectedly falls on the high school bomb with which an idyll will tie up recalls more than a little the musical M6 choupinette, Partir un jour. The teenage fantasy that goes through the years is moreover performed by Bastien Bouillon in the two films, mecano there, hockeyist on the ret…

Adaptation of an eponymous novel by Nicolas Mathieu, the film by Alex Lutz suffers from the similarity with "From One Day".

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