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Scarlet

L'envol

2022

Pietro Marcello

Raphaël Thierry, Juliette Jouan, Louis Garrel, Noémie Lvovsky ...

6.7

1,234

Drama. Romance Juliette grew up alone with her father Raphaël in the north of France. He is a veteran of the First World War. The girl, passionate about singing and music, meets a magician one summer who promises her that some scarlet sails will one day take her out of her town. Juliette never stopped believing in this prophecy.

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Debruge Variety	"[It] isn’t quite a fairy tale, although it certainly feels like one at times (...) [It] is smaller, sweeter and more sensitive than Marcello’s earlier work"
		Lisa Nesselson Screendaily	"This leisurely and affecting tale, which opens the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, is quietly rewarding thanks to an excellent cast whose faces we observe in frequent close-ups"
		Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"Marcello’s methods can’t compensate for a plot that feels a little familiar, resorting to clichés instead of fresh ideas. It’s too bad because there are lots of great details on display, especially in the movie’s opening"
		Ben Croll The Wrap	"'L'envol' is a kind of very modern throwback. It's a bit of a mess, no doubt about that, but a fascinating one. While it may not reach the heights of Marcello's previous work, boy does it soar"
		David Katz The Film Stage	"A tender tribute to the imagination (...) With a work like 'L'envol', we are witnessing Marcello in a mercurial, mid-career stage, watching his sensibility truly take shape"
		Rafaela Sales Ross The Playlist	"The arresting visual competency can't salvage its muddled pace (...) This ambitious yet lukewarm exercise in magical realism amounting to a drearily frustrating watch"
		Ben Kenigsberg rogerebert.com	"The director, who got his start as a documentarian, is further refining a fiction-film style so odd that it's becoming endearing"
		Jesse Hassenger Paste Magazine	"As-is, 'L'envol' is a beautiful loll, content with its self-made magic"
		Anna Smith Deadline	"['L'envol']'s tonal shifts may not win over everyone, but if you roll with the changes, it's a decorative and entertaining watch that recalls everything from 'Jean de Florette' to 'The Princess Bride'"
		Matt Zoller Seitz rogerebert.com	"The movie's stubborn insistence on going where inspiration takes it is fascinating (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"The world of 'Scarlet' is one of magical realism first and foremost, anyway, in which specificities fall away to give room for more enigmatic, unhurried charms"
		Keith Watson Slant	"Having established such a textured, tangible world in its opening passages, 'L'envol' bafflingly spends its remainder breaking more and more from that richly established world (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Kat Sachs Chicago Reader	"More personal and less ambitious than his previous film, Pietro Marcello's 'L'envol' is a triumph"
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"One of the attractions of 'L'envol' is that it doesn't fit obvious categorization, which means that you're not always sure where it's headed or why"
		Fabien Lemercier Cineuropa	"A very rich tableau on the power of imagination, touching on the human, the social, love, the craft of art, female emancipation, time and its wounds, the hopes of escaping the millstone of destiny condemning to eternal repetition"

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