We lo e Antoine de Caunes and Elsa Zylberstein

"Paranormal acti ity" o Oren Peli

With Katie eatherston and Micah Sloat. 1: 26.

Disco ering that his companion is harassed by a malignant spirit, a young man decides to tinker a sur eillance system in his house. We see on the screen the bands ound by the police. The scenario allows the ilmmaker to the ugliness o the image and the lack o staging. A ew years ago, "Blair witch Project" had used this method, the past year "clo er ield" was operating on this principle in a little less mown. Powered by Internet, these three ilms are o tremendous career. Remember that "2012" is ten thousand times more expensi e to manu acture than "Paranormal acti ity" but that the und is at the same rate. Amateur ilm hardly makes ear, "Paranormal acti ity" is the most cost-e ecti e production in the history o cinema. Also remember that, or the same price, it is better to see... but more expensi e ilms to.

A. G.

"The lo e o Simon Eskenazy mad story" o Jean-Jacques Silbermann

With Antoine de Caunes, Mehdi Dehbi, Judith Magre.

ELSA Zylberstein, Micha Lescot. 1: 30 pm.

Simon Eskenazy (Antoine de Caunes), internationally renowned clarinetist specializing in kletzmer music, like men, without detours. And its tranquillity. ull pot. Or here, in his apartment Goutte-d'Or, landed his mother (Judith Magre), a sur i or o Auschwitz to pro en temperament, o ten surrounded by eterans o the camps. New York is his ex-wi e, Rosalie (Elsa Zylberstein), accompanied by his son Yankele. Simon was pre ented rom see Yankele since birth because o his homosexuality by a step ather Orthodox, he also present in Paris. To simpli y the equation, Simon which dragouillait pre iously a pro postpubère philo (the excellent Micha Lescot) steep alls crazy o a Muslim trans estite (Mehdi Dehbi, quite con incing in the role) which applies to play with his ner es. Di icult in these conditions to concentrate to sa e a disk and preparing a uture tour o the USA. We lo e Antoine de Caunes (and Elsa Zylberstein). But, rankly, ten years a ter "the man is one woman as the other" ind them in ilm accumulating as many clichés, without any comic spring despite all e orts, it is a punishment.

T G.

"La Montagne Sainte- ictoire" o rançois a rat

With Clo is Cornillac, Sami Bouajila, imala Pons, Marilyne Canto, Michel Aumont, Christian keyboard. 1: 45.

Nostalgia took the rench cinema. A ter the kidnapping o baron Empain ("the abduction"), the machinations o the merchants o arms under Mitterrand ("an a air o State"), here is the politico-immobilières carambouilles o the Paca region. "Neighbourhoods", Xa ier Al arez (Clo is Cornillac) is a small architect ambitious Aix-en-Pro ence, ready or anything to succeed. It goes to team with incent Cluzel (Christian Cla ier), Socialist candidate (but yes: Christian Cla ier!) to the position o Mayor, totally to the pick up. De oid o charisma, unable to express themsel es without enmeshed in its own sentences, dressed as a representati e o trade in the 1970s and especially - Supreme handicap - irreducible in his honesty. Through his cheek and his interpersonal skills - he is riend o childhood with the star o the ootball team, Doudou Demba, say...-, Al arez (which dropped 50,000 euros to elect his oal) arri es at the tide. In his mind, Cluzel, once elected, he will return the ele ator on a major real estate project. But politics has its codes and its mysteries that are not accessible to a small cock cities, also strong in mouth was. Al arez will quickly learn the lesson. Well rhythmic, well played but tagged as the motorway o the Sun.

T G.