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Bancs Publics, Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Roma

Bruno Podalydès

Podalydès Bruno comes in the room, the premiere of his film, looking cheerful, carefree, preceded by a ' excited Mario Sesti (editor of the Extra section, which also confirms this year as the most interesting part of the Festival) was visibly proud to have brought to Rome a film that is a pure concentrate of French cinema.
The hilarious prologue in which Podalydès tells a funny story but its unfortunate Cannes suggests "if good morning starts in the morning." It was the morning.
Bancs Publics is the best movie seen so far at the festival, ironic, touching, delicate, not boring in its full two hours and given a huge amount of players (about 86, including Catherine Deneuve and Chiara Mastroianni) worthy of Ben Hur that are intertwined in a tangle of stories of everyday life. Drama
departure: on the fourth floor of a palace of Versailles someone hung a banner written in ominous black to white, "Men Only".
From there, the film proceeds by splitting into three parts, the first of which takes place in the building opposite, in an office where Lucie (Florence Muller) and his colleagues "lazy" (as some would say in Italy) and realize it kick off a series of assumptions about who might be, what it means and why.
The survey involves all in a short time, from the bottom to the top of the company in a succession of events. In
lunch break, the focus shifts to a nearby park in the square, the atmosphere here is more delicate, poetic and new characters are inserted alongside the others.
Between games of children, sad memories, love and disappointed looks enchanted (the wonderful part of the two teenagers set the whole time without saying a word), the park is alive with secrets, illusions, hopes and under the gaze of a young homeless man who is almost as landlord.
Finally, it triggers the theater of the absurd, the intersection of weird and funny situations has, in fact, reach its peak in the corner hardware store (the same Podalydes it is the owner in the film), where employees and customers unlikely create all kinds of exciting moments of hilarity, until the explosive climax that takes us to the final.
Bancs Publics, the third episode of the trilogy Railway station of Podalydès, can be considered one of the pearls of this fourth edition, rockin 'till the end in a carousel of events and characters, as in the credits that run in a circle on the views from the park where you keep secrets and emotions.

Patrick Caruso