“The most beautiful film of the summer”: rated 4.1 out of 5, it's the film to see absolutely this week! – Actus Ciné
Released this week, the moving “Le Roman de Jim” by the Larrieu brothers has an average press rating of 4.1 out of 5.
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Pierric Bailly, Le Roman de Jim is a moving family chronicle directed by the Larrieu brothers and led by a high-flying cast including Karim Leklou, Laetitia Dosch, Sara Giraudeau, Bertrand Belin and the young Eol Personne.
Released this week, this feature film, which was noted at Cannes, has an average press rating of 4.1 out of 5 (on AlloCiné, for 37 media), which makes it the best-rated film of the week, ahead of City of Darkness and Alien: Romulus.
What is it about?
Aymeric meets Florence, a former work colleague, by chance at a party in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When Jim is born, Aymeric is there. They spend beautiful years together, until the day Christophe, Jim's natural father, arrives… It could be the beginning of a melodrama, it is also the beginning of an odyssey of fatherhood.
What the press thinks:
According to Latest News from Alsace:
“Here are the brothers of the Pyrenees, perhaps for the first time more flexible, sensitive, sentimental, melancholic.” By Nathalie Chifflet – 5/5
According to Le Parisien:
“Adapted from the novel by Pierric Bailly, Le Roman de Jim is a broad and profound melodrama about fatherhood, in which all the characters exist intensely.” By Catherine Balle – 5/5
According to Les Inrockuptibles:
“Aymeric manages to create a line of flight, to take a tangent, to invent a new plane of existence. The eternal movement of the Larrieu, which finds here one of its most beautiful executions.” By Jacky Goldberg – 5/5
According to Cahiers du Cinéma:
“The success of the Larrieu's latest feature film is paradoxically measured by the dispossession and erasure of an anti-hero who immediately becomes the narrator of a passive and unlucky gesture.” By Thierry Méranger – 4/5
Why Jim's Novel is the big emotional moment of the summer
According to Closer:
“Pure emotion, a moment of cinema from which we emerge feeling enhanced.” By Justine Boivin – 4/5
According to Le Journal du Dimanche:
“A moving melodrama without being tearjerker, benevolent but not naive, imbued with a gentle melancholy and an enveloping tenderness. Light and serious at the same time, a bit like life, it also seduces with its endearing characters played by amazing actors.” By Baptiste Thion – 4/5
According to Les Echos:
“The Larrieu brothers have made the most beautiful film of the summer with this adaptation of a novel by Pierric Bailly. Embodied by the excellent Karim Leklou, this fiction about fatherhood surprises and upsets.” By Olivier De Bruyn – 4/5
According to Première:
“Jim's Novel is a kind of new Western: a film that bets everything on its hero, who thinks he will find his way in the West, that is to say the world (or in the rocks of the Jura) as long as he keeps his moral rectitude. In two words: very strong.” By Sylvestre Picard – 4/5