Jacques Audiard’s 13th District is a strange, fascinating movie, with the definite touch of a great film director, a mysterious painting set in dreamy aesthetics, a shadow floating through the light, a black and white journey between Love, Lust, and Lightness.
13th District is the photography of bursting new lives, of young human beings searching through hurt feelings to understand their own existence and the meaning of heavily kept secrets. The young actors – Lucie Zhang, Noémie Merlant, Jehnny Beth, and Makita Samba – follow Jacques Audiard’s vision of a constantly evolving youth, interpreted in all fairness, intelligence, and cynicism.
13th District was co-written by Jacques Audiard, Céline Sciamma, and Léa Mysius and this is why the screenplay is so successful as the audience can enter each and every one writer’s worlds.
This clever encounter is at once efficient, formidable, tender, and witty: a timeless masterpiece.
Paris 13th is now screening in US movie theatersReview: Richard Gilles (Paris) is slightly past his prime, but still vivacious true Parisian spirit. He has worked as a journalist in the spheres of the arts and luxury for the last few decades and is now the happy correspondent for QueerGuru in the City of Lights.
