{"id":1706,"date":"2024-01-29T15:51:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T23:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2024-01-29T15:51:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T23:51:45","slug":"film-review-les-cinq-diables-2022-by-lea-mysius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/2024\/01\/29\/film-review-les-cinq-diables-2022-by-lea-mysius\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: Les Cinq Diables (2022) by L\u00e9a Mysius"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Les Cinq Diables (The Five Devils) by L\u00e9a Mysius is a strange and cerebral yet devastatingly heartfelt exploration of love and loss, and a thrilling opportunity to practice your French listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.citizenpoulpe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/les-cinq-diables-940x535.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ad\u00e8le Exarchopoulos in Les Cinq Diables (2022)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The film follows a young family with a dark and unspoken history.  Starring the extraordinary Sally Dram\u00e9 as eight-year-old Vicky, a troubled child with an abnormally acute sense of smell, her seemingly banal life in a small town in the French Alps becomes increasingly less explicable with the arrival of her aunt Julia (Swala Emati) .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tse1.mm.bing.net\/th?id=OIP.avodS9LMHf4Mr08ANH6U-QHaE8&amp;pid=Api\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:673px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sally Dram\u00e9 as Vicky in Les Cinq Diables (2022)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from the fascinating ambiguity of the story itself, I was captivated by this film&#8217;s complex characters and their brilliant portrayal by a cast of actors that are not only talented in their own right, but whose chemistry is striking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinessonne.com\/storage\/img_articles\/diable1.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:673px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ad\u00e8le Exarchopoulos and Swala Emati in Les Cinq Diables (2022)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch now on Mubi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Cinq Diables (The Five Devils) by L\u00e9a Mysius is a strange and cerebral yet devastatingly heartfelt exploration of love and loss, and a thrilling opportunity to practice your French listening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[130,120,170],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-all-levels","tag-film","tag-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}