Vittorio De Agrò's critical gaze from Croisette

(by Cannes Luigi Noira and Vittorio De Agrò (RS) with the kind collaboration of Eleonora Ono – the photos are published courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival)

The Stravede Croisette Per Tom Cruise!

Nostalgia, Adrenaline and celebration of man on the algorithm: Here are the three main ingredients of the latter (perhaps) Adventure of the actor always green

While the two independent sections inaugurate with two pearls

out of Competition

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING di Christopher MCQUARRIE

Plot:Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is the eighth chapter of the famous Action Saga starring Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), The most tireless and acrobatic secret agent of the big screen.

In this new mission, Ethan and his team must trace two keys that activate a very powerful weapon: an artificial intelligence called entity, capable of causing global chaos - from the manipulation of international banks to collapse of world infrastructures.

Gabriel hindered them (Morales essay), A ruthless enemy linked to Ethan's past, He too is ready to get his hands on the keys.

The race against time winds through continents, Trains in the running and ready -to -take planes, In a crescendo of tension and stunts. But the final clash between Ethan and Gabriel will not be the last ...

Review: We really hope that The Final Reckoning was the last impossible mission of Ethan Hunt. Because, After what Tom Cruise does in these 2 hours and 45 minutes, The only next step possible is the deep space. Towards the universe and beyond. Buzz Lightyear permitting.

sure, I know very well: Millions of adoring fans of the saga and its protagonist had been waiting for this grand finale for months. And too, on the Croisette, I saw journalists and cinephiles with hearts in a heart while waiting for the triumphant entry of their hero.

The film starts exactly where the previous episode had left us. The entity - this threatening ia out of control - has conquered the web and is preparing to take over the world nuclear codes. His plan? Simple: Destroy everything and start from scratch, giving life to a new world order controlled by herself and by Gabriel, His human henchman.

The great powers are paralyzed, Panic meanders shutters. The population is divided between those who fear the end and who, instead, dreams of the reset. And who can ever save the world? Ma Ethan Hunt, naturally, ready to challenge any law of physics - and the script - in order to stop the inevitable.

Salvation? Inside a Russian submarine sunk among the ice of the North Pole. obviously.

No spoiler, But a small anticipation can grant it: The prize after the ascent from the icy waters is to spend whole days in a hyperbaric chamber together with the good (and fascinating) Hayley Atwell.

The film, it must be said, It is a pure show concentrate. Continuous action, adrenaline chases, Spectacular locations ranging from South Africa to the North Pole passing through London. There is everything fans expect.

The winning formula of the saga is intact, like a ritual that works and is not discussed.

But ...

If you are any spectator, one with his feet on the ground and a little critical spirit, You cannot fail to notice how the whole plot is at the service of a single purpose: exalt Tom Cruise. Everything revolves around his body, to his ego, to his eternal athleticism. More than mission: Impossible, Sometimes it looks like a continuous celebration of “Tomismo”.

Said this, There is also a melancholy soul, almost affectionate, In this episode.

A tone amarcord, con flashback, heroic sacrifices, looks to the past of the saga and reflections on the future. Because, At bottom, The Final Reckoning is also a love letter to a type of cinema that no longer exists. It is an invitation not to forget that fate - even in the era of machines - is still a human choice.

Man against artificial intelligence: A disturbing scenario, but very current. And if even a blockbuster like mission: Impossible takes the briga to launch a signal, welcome.

Nostalgia, Adrenaline and celebration of man on the algorithm: Here are the three main ingredients of the latter (perhaps) adventure. A script built to entertain Tom Cruise e, with him, all the audience in the room.

And at the end of the race, while the lights are rekindled, A question remains suspended in the air:

dopo The Final Reckoning, To whom Tom will ask for his next mission? Artificial intelligence, obviously.

SdC – Special screenings

Opening Film : Adam's interest (Adam’s Interest) di Laura change

Plot: Following a judgment of the Court, Adam, A four -year -old boy, He is hospitalized for malnutrition. Lucy, head of the pediatric ward, He decides to allow the little girl's mother to remain beyond the visit time imposed by the authorities.

But when the woman, Once again, He refuses to leave his son's bed, The situation is complicated. Lucy, driven by the desire to do the right thing, He will try in every way to help this young mother in difficulty, questioning the boundaries between law and humanity.

Review: Until yesterday I thought that the oncological department was the hardest and most excruciating place in a hospital. After seeing Adam's Sake, Opening films of the 67th International Critician Week, I changed my mind.

The real hell is the pediatric department. A place where suffering is split: that of the child and that of the parent. And for those who work there - doctors, nurses, Operators - Every day is an emotional challenge to face in silence, trying to protect yourself from a pain that devours.

Lucy is the head of the head. A competent professional, empathetic and reliable. But also a woman capable of taking efficiency and sensitivity in balance. He takes care of his small patients with dedication and respect, while managing the emotional fragility of the parents.

It is a solid reference point in a department where fear is constant.

Léa Drucker is perfect in this role. Measured, intense, always credible. His interpretation is dry but full of subtext: Behind the mask of efficiency we can see compassion, involvement, and a personal pain that resurfaces slowly.

Equally convincing is anamaria VARTOLOMEI, who plays Rebecca, Adam's mother.

His is a deep performance, instinctive, lacerating. Alternates moments of extreme vulnerability with authentic anger and despair of anger and despair, without ever falling into rhetoric or excess.

With the right use of the body, the actress gives us back all the fragility of an unprepared girl to be a mother, but desperate to the idea of ​​losing their child.

The VARTOLOMEI confirms here that he is one of the most promising European actresses of his generation.

Adam is a single child, malnutrito, full of fractures not caused by violence, but from negligence and ignorance. Social services remove him from his mother, limiting contacts. A measure perhaps correct on paper, but that neither a child nor a mother can accept without consequences.

This is really the right thing? What does it mean “Adam's good”?

From this question the film by Laura Wandel starts. Adam's Sake is a lucid and heartbreaking reflection on the conflict between law and compassion, Between bureaucracy and humanity. Lucy, single mother and woman who knows pain up close, wonders and acts.

The film develops everything on this tension: protect the minor with rigid rules or help it leaving space to the heart?

Shot with sober tones, retained, The film never renounces emotional intensity. The pathos grows scene after scene. The viewer feels involved in the three -way link between Adam, Mother and Lucy, hoping in a way out that can guarantee the child love, Security and future.

There is no shortage of twists, as well as difficult choices. Lucy, with its silent determination, does not bend to the frost of the bureaucracy. The end, bittersweet, It gives us a moment of breath after an intense vision, almost suffocating.

If there were more Lucy in public hospitals, Perhaps the fear and suffering would be less hard to bear.

Vittorio De Agrò (RS)