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La critique de Matière focale

Chers Amis,
Mon périple dans le cinéma industriel (voir article d'hier) continue. Curieux Ziad Doueiri... Curieux personnage et en même temps pas tant que ça... Mais on verra ça plus tard. Dans ces affaires-là, il faut savoir ne pas faire les choses n'importe comment.

"Lila Dit Ça" raconte l'étrange rencontre entre Chimo, un jeune, avec Lila, jeune aussi mais déroutante, car moins jeune que Chimo, plus "mûre" sur les choses de la vie. Ils se rencontrent comme ça, sans rien, simplement, et très vite le verbe fourchu de Lila prend le dessus, quasi-immédiatement en fait. Ils parlent encore et encore. Et de quoi ils parlent? Ils parlent de sexe. Enfin, surtout Lila, Lolita pulpeuse, ange ou démon, es-tu ange... ou démon, candide ou provocante. Sans doute les deux.

Une passion naît, et malgré le Verbe très en chair de Lila,et les réponses sincères de Chimo peu d'effleurement et de caresse, si on excepte une sulfureuse et très digitale ballade en solex, qui sera le point de départ de tout, une sorte de "postambule" (le début est ce qu'aurait pu être la fin). Mais après, place à la passion et au Verbe.

Chimo apprend à analyser ses sentiments, chavire pas mal, et se déchire d'avec sa bande copain, dont un furax de ne pouvoir lever la minette, ni même lui parler, ni rien. Trahison en filigrane. Passion sur le devant. Et corps pulpeux en avant-scène. Nous sommes à Marseille.

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Cast
Vahina Giocante : Lila
Mohammed Khouas : Chimo
Edmonde Franchi : la tante de Lila
Carmen Lebbos : Mère de Chimo
Ghandi Assad : Sammy
Dominique Bluzet : Prêtre
Stéphanie Fatout : Claire Soulier
Barbara Chossis : Prostituée chinoise
Bruno Esposito : Inspecteur de police
Karim Ben Haddou : Mouloud
Lotfi Chakri : Bakary
Hamid Dkhissi : Big Jo

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Entretien avec Ziad Doueiri

Q-LILA DIT CA est un roman qui est entré dans les annales de la littérature érotique. Comment avez-vous abordé l’histoire ?

R-Pour moi, LILA DIT CA est avant tout une histoire d’amour entre une personne – Lila – qui débarque dans la vie d’une autre – Chimo – et lui raconte des histoires tellement crûes et osées, qu’il ne peut s’empêcher d’entrer dans cet univers. Chimo s’embarque dans un voyage dont il ne connaît pas le cheminement. Et sans le savoir, Lila provoque un changement. Elle amène Chimo à changer sa vie. . C’est une histoire d’amour passionnelle mais sans déclaration d’amour au sens classique.

Quels étaient les problèmes d’adaptation ?

D’abord, il y avait un récit sans structure conventionnelle. Le livre est écrit à la première personne : c’est Chimo qui raconte son histoire. Le problème de la voix off, c’est que la narration devient vite monotone. Il fallait trouver le bon dosage. L’autre problème concernait le personnage même de Chimo, qui est très passif dans le livre. Il fallait construire un personnage accomplissant un parcours en arc plus cinématographique. C’était d’autant plus difficile que le livre est très bien écrit. Chimo est très touchant. Mais il est lent, parle peu et  tout se passe dans sa tête. Autre problème :il n’y avait plus d’antagonistes, c’est à dire qu’en dehors de Lila et Chimo, les personnages secondaires existaient très peu. Il fallait définir plus clairement quels seraient les obstacles à cette relation.(ouais ? ben moi je m'en serai volontiers passé de ses pourritures de copains)

Pourquoi avez-vous décidé de transposer l’histoire de la banlieue parisienne à Marseille ?

Quand le livre est sorti en 1996, c’était un sujet assez novateur. On commençait tout juste de parler de banlieue au cinéma. J’ai vite réalisé que les banlieues parisiennes, avec leur code et leur psychologie m’étaient totalement étrangères. Et j’ai préféré aller tourner dans une région méditerranéenne, pus proche de mes racines. Je suis parti pour Marseille, en quête de ruelles étroites, avec des maisons les unes sur les autres et le linge qui pend. C’était un choix esthétique.

Le langage de Lila est parfois à la limite du pornographique.

On est sur une ligne très mince. Lila parle d’amour d’une façon décalée, romantique et érotique, mais jamais vulgaire. Une autre actrice que Vahina Gociante aurait pu dire les mêmes phrases et tomber dans le ridicule, le kitsch, l’ordinaire.

Le film évoque aussi les conflits communautaires et religieux…

C’est un thème qui m’est très familier, puisque j’ai grandi au Liban où cohabitent 17 communautés religieuses. Le film prend en considération les événements du 11 septembre pour évoquer la peur de la différence, le racisme et l’intégrisme. Mais les mots sont maniés par des jeunes, avec une spontanéité qui est de leur âge. Mouloud, le chef de la bande des copains de Chimo, est à la fois fier d’être arabe et « mal à l’aise » hors de son ghetto. Il fait partie de ceux qui se replient sur eux-mêmes. Alors que Chimo va s’ouvrir et gagner sa liberté.

Pourquoi avoir changé la fin du livre ?

C’était une fin trop dramatique. Je voulais la rendre plus douce amère et rester sur une note d’espoir.

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16/11/2014 11:43 par tellurikwaves

 Lila dit ça est un film français de Ziad Doueiri sorti le 26 janvier 2005.

Banlieue de Marseille. Sur les conseils de son professeur de français, Chimo, un jeune homme un peu paumé, accepte de tout mettre en oeuvre pour intégrer une école d'écrivains à Paris. Pour ce faire, il doit écrire une histoire de quelques pages. C'est alors qu'il fait la connaissance d'une fille délurée qui l'initie à la sexualité
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Š-DR- KLIP de Maja Milos (2012) fin

15/11/2014 05:16 par tellurikwaves

British Film Institute Awards 2012

Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2012

Chicago International Film Festival 2012

International Cinephile Society Awards 2013

Lume International Film Festival 2012

Rotterdam International Film Festival 2012

Toronto International Film Festival 2012

Zlín International Film Festival for Children and Youth 2013

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A disturbing, powerful, film about the emptiness of teen lives

Author: sybarite_2003 from United Kingdom
27 October 2012
 

I saw this at the Munich Film Festival and was very affected by it. It is not a perfect film -- others have already mentioned the clichés--but the overall effect was very powerful. The main actress was brilliant as well as beautiful as the disturbed 14 year old and I predict she will be a future star.

The director had some interesting things to say during the Q and A session afterwards. Commenting on the explicit sex scenes she said that it was realistic and that teens nowadays were having more and more extreme sex as a direct result of porn. "I guarantee teens here have seen double and quadruple penetrations online!"

"Enjoy" is the wrong word for the experience once has when watching this but it is a film that should be watched by parents and teens everywhere.Is this the kind of nihilistic world we are leaving for our future generations?As a side note--I am sure this film will be banned in many countries (which is a pity) as it could be seen, by the more conservative, as child pornography.

I have just returned from cinema and I am very pleased with this movie. It's fresh, it's bold, it's contemporary and it's believable. The young cast and the young director have made a wonderful debut.Some people left the screening obviously shocked by the explicitness of the sex scenes, but a lot more understood that we cannot avoid sex as a sort of human interaction and communication. Things that happen in bed are indicators of the quality of a relationship.

Frustration and passion of the young generation, living in bleak and volatile conditions of the 21. century world shaken by both material crisis and spiritual crisis, are the key elements of this movie. The realism of explicit sex scenes and violent party scenes is what makes this movie a Serbian version of the cult movie Kids (1995) and the energy of the characters resembles the TV series Skins (2007).

Author: lovrokrnic from Croatia
11 November 2012

I've already watched a couple of movies about crazy teenagers (Thirteen, The Babysitters, series Skins) but this is probably most explicit and closest to me because come from a similar environment. I especially liked the music, Folk Music has never sounded good like in this film, according to that put the right thing in the right place. Young actors have done a super job and the director for whom I've never heard before had done excellent mix between footage from a mobile device and movie camera, I was not so painful to watch as usually After I've seen the Serbian movie and "Život i smrt porno bande" which gave me nightmares I was a little scared of the new Serbian Brutale but still not even close that hardcore though the very real and tragic.

Author: georgemilojevic from Serbia
15 July 2012

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This movie will make a lot of sense to people who live in the Balkan region or former YU countries, much more then in Europe. If you've seen Kids(1995), well this is the Balkan version of it, today.

The story follows a group of kids and their every day life in and outside of high school and their many encounters with sex, drugs and alcohol. The detachment from parents, life in poverty, without love is all what creates this way of life. It shows us the inside of something that we might deny existing but is there and is so close to us but we just keep ignoring it. Everything I've seen in this movie, I've heard from friends, seen it myself and its all true. Kids going to clubs underage, buying alcohol, stealing, smoking, dressing like prostitutes...

Biggest problem for the viewers will be the fact that they haven't met a group of kids like this, and they will refuse to believe that this is a possible scenario in life. Kids who are their age who went to a slightly different high school will say also that this is not true but as soon as you leave the urban city area, or high schools which are "elitist" you'll find much more and much worse. "Clip" should serve us as a warning, is here to educate us, show us how bad things can get, are, and unless we take our blindfolds off its only going to get worse.Once again, you might think this is fiction but is as true as it gets.

Author: konchalovic from Serbia
9 March 2014

I wanted to write this review after reading some of reviews of other people here. I deeply feel that is not easy to empathize with movie and situation Jasna is and although storyline isn't complicated (it is rather straightforward) the message movie is carrying is still here and it is very loud. Once you can immerse into the lives of girls and boys in the movie and empathize with them message is actually overwhelming. I feel that Maja Miloš made one of the best Serbian movies ever (and I watched most of them).

Director was able to deeply understand our troubled society and how young people is adapting (or at least trying to) to its surroundings. Isidora gave flawless role and very special touch to the whole movie (I guess that she had good insight in the life of the people at her age). Maja, Isidora, Vukašin and all others involved into this movie I wish to congratulate you and just hope that Serbian cinema can find the strength to follow breakthrough this movie made in socially engaged cinema genre in Serbia.

Author: Radivoje Milojevic from Serbia
14 September 2013

When society is shaken in its foundations, and its people is lost in extreme life treating situations like (job lose, starvation, economy crisis, where corrupted police and government are the mafia, etc), the one way for dealing with problems is escaping reality.Youth in Serbia confronted with that situations and reality, with no hope for escape or better times, try to lose themselves in every day usage of opiates like alcohol and drugs. With stimulants no other than false idols, and culture of pap, they trap themselves in meaningless relationships of lust and sex.

Parents and elders, often just happy to have healthy children, that made it through the day, are blind to sings of moral degradation and delinquency.And finally, in society like that (Serbia from '90 to today 2013), where culture is failing to enrich and refine someones existence, the only purpose of art and artists are to shock and stun to awake and show the obvious. So watch this movie and see the realistic display of dying nation. (mark for realistic movie 10, but 6 for production and cast- final 8)

Author: dejan-fehirov from Becej, Vojvodina
5 July 2013

When I started watching this movie I could not but think that this is a brilliant art-movie. I like these films consider the problems of society in a very realistic way and without hesitation. Since I live in Serbia, I absolutely understand the message that the movie sends. This is our reality, not so great but it is a reality for some to admit it or not. My rating for this movie is pure 10 with five stars! I recommend everyone to see this film and wonder in what kind of environment we live. This movie does not propagate immorality. Just shows what today's teenagers like in Serbia, but also in other countries..

Author: Anastasia Beaverhausen from Belgrade, Serbia
29 August 2012

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I'm surprised that this simple message director was trying to send didn't manage to reach people. The movie shows lives in suburbs of Belgrade, people trying to survive poverty and illness and teenagers dealing with current situation without any adult they can rely on. Haven't been able to express their emotions in the right way, they're trying to do so trough sex, violence and turbo folk music. Lack of character and plot development, also carries certain message. Shallow character in the movie is also shallow person in the real life.

My personal opinion is that director's primer goal wasn't to shock audience and that explicit sex scenes couldn't be left out. The viewer's impression just wouldn't be the same. To understand this movie properly, you have to understand current situation Serbia is in. Clip is about decadence of young generations and their struggle to be accepted, to be loved and to be understood in this diseased society.