{"id":141387,"date":"2025-03-12T12:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/03\/12\/a-pop-icon-family-dramedy-and-explosive-plotline-the-latest-in-french-cinema-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T12:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:18:21","slug":"a-pop-icon-family-dramedy-and-explosive-plotline-the-latest-in-french-cinema-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/03\/12\/a-pop-icon-family-dramedy-and-explosive-plotline-the-latest-in-french-cinema-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A pop icon, family dramedy and explosive plotline: The latest in French cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Critic Perrine Quennesson takes us through the latest releases in the world of French cinema, with two family stories that transport us to convincing versions of France in the 1960s and 1990s. \u201cMy Mother, God, And Sylvie Vartan\u201d tells the story of a devoted mother, played by Le\u00efla Bekhti, who is prepared to move mountains for her son. Meanwhile \u201cQueen Mom\u201d charts an immigrant family\u2019s experience as they come up against stereotypes about North Africans and attempt to overcome the obstacles planted in their path; the film also offers a comical and fantastical take on one of the bogeymen of French history classes. A volcano on the brink of eruption in Guadeloupe distils social and political tensions in \u201cMagma\u201d and we discuss Thierry Fr\u00e9maux\u2019s love letter to the Lumi\u00e8re brothers, as he documents the birth of cinema and its modern conventions.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critic Perrine Quennesson takes us through the latest releases in the world of French cinema, with two family stories that transport us to convincing versions of France in the 1960s and 1990s. \u201cMy Mother, God, And Sylvie Vartan\u201d tells the story of a devoted mother, played by Le\u00efla Bekhti, who is prepared to move mountains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-141387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}