‘Roma Elastica’ Review: Marion Cotillard Is a Dying Scream Queen in Bertrand Mandico’s Film Industry Pastiche
'Roma Elastica' is a film by Bertrand Mandico featuring Marion Cotillard as a dying scream queen. The film showcases Mandico's unique aesthetic, blending various forms of art and narrative styles. While it may not follow a traditional storyline, it offers a kaleidoscopic experience filled with references and visual flair.
- ▪Marion Cotillard stars as Eddie, a dying scream queen heading to Rome for a final film shoot.
- ▪The film is characterized by its non-narrative structure and immersive artistic style.
- ▪Mandico's work often blurs the lines between film, theater, and visual art.
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For better or worse, there’s no one doing it like Bertrand Mandico. Of all the directors pulling into Cannes with Marion Cotillard and Noémie Merlant riding shotgun, only Mandico leaves you wondering if he’ll have actually made a film. He makes features all right, alongside shorts, music videos, installations, and experimental theatre that are all, in many key respects, form and length agnostic. All are pure showcases for the artist’s baroquely wrought aesthetic — sometimes little more, and sometimes that’s enough. Just take that caveat emptor as you head for Rome.Still, “Roma Elastica” holds together better than most, owing for the most part to its positioning as a star vehicle for Marion Cotillard.
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