Les cinq diables (2022)

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Vicki (strikingly played by Sally Dramé) is a young girl with a superhuman sense of smell in La Mysius' Les Cinq diables (The Five Devils), and one particular smell combination sends her back into the past through her dreams where she sees her parents when they were young. But it may be that her visitations could cause the very trauma they are still all struggling with... and her own existence? There are weird elements in the premise to be sure, and yes, the smell concoctions have a witchy vibe, but I don't entirely agree with all the synopses out there that talk about magic and "fantasy". There's a clue to a science-fiction explanation in the film if you care to notice it. But regardless of the "how", this is a strong drama about family secrets, or not-so-secrets except to a child who has yet to come of age, and fears her world will be turned upside down by what she discovers. Adèle Exarchopoulos may seem like the protagonist - Vicki's mother, struggling with her sexual identity and haunted by the past - but she's just one of the observed. It's Vicki who makes things happen. The final shot is as ambiguous as your mind allows it to be, which I liked as well. Still no clue as to what the title means. 4 weeks ago