It is all envy when the news pushes the Blues

Laugh... It is all envy, when the news pushes the Blues. And just two French comedies are, this week, bet us cheer. Occupying them two 900 screens, they were one and the other, the merit of outside of the the good big well gaudriole we beaten. So, be laugh For "Locked out", Albert Dupontel, nothing is less sure. Director and performer, Dupontel (pianist of the "orchestra seats") refines, brilliantly, inaugurated by her first film, "Bernie", "trash" vein as itself a semi-débile SDF, appropriating the suicidé COP uniform, decides to deliver a bit of justice in the world in his own way. Rapping, kidnapping, éructant, in the garbage of a sordid and surreal setting. This "social cartoon" at the frenetic pace barking course (this is the word) some good truths between two again. But its unbridled outbid in the "crazy" snickering risk of bored soon enough... Jean-"Philippe", in Laurent Tuel a stronger assets, and including his "pitch", particularly original and clever: a fan of Johnny Hallyday to become single-minded wakes up one day in a world where his idol never existed, but stubborn, finally find a named Jean-Philippe Smet (the real name of Johnny), Director of bowling, he persuaded him to return to the guitar in his teens to participate in a concert at the stage of France. Clear: Fabrice Luchini (fan) persuaded Johnny Hallyday (in the skin by Jean-Philippe) to try to sixty years, finally becoming Johnny Hallyday. You follow It is, finally, quite simple, and, even if the artifice is sometimes dangerously exposed quite funny. As Johnny (the true) plays very well the fools with a raging (Luchini) Fabrice, to sing in his place (which is also not what it does best).

Sing, this is what are beautifully, them, the interpreters of "Carmen". Or instead of "U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha", original title of the astonishing adaptation of the Opera by Bizet by the British Mark Domford-May. The Gypsy is black, as all those around her, she lives and works in a miserable, colourful, warm township, speaks and sings in xhosa, one of the 11 languages of South Africa. Transposition (Berlin Golden Bear), worn by a troupe of young singers as professional as lovers, seems to flow source. But it is perhaps this week, an animated film, "Ice Age 2", which will be unanimous. There are friendly prehistoric creatures of the first opus, Diego Tiger, Sid the sloth, Manny râleur mammoth, but also, above all, more present this time, the irresistible "Scrat" rat-squirrel in eternal fight with his jumper Glans. Technically dazzling, bright, tender and funny: what cheer also big and small. Note Finally, for the nostalgic less distant history, Robert Mitchum in champion of Rodeo in "Les Indomptables" of Nicholas Ray.

Always on display

Forget the laughter. The smile Enough light, and quickly erased by the impression of a thousand times already seen, in "The liner", Francis Veber, it tone is, in "Armchairs of Orchestra", Danièle Thompson, of a beautiful melancholy. But the engine of the best films of this spring, it is the lie. Aristocrat and britishissime in the marital drama also violate that subdued of "Separate Lies", Julian Fellowes. Allied to the violence, to weave the fabric copy of "romanzo criminale", Michele Placido, chronic pulsating of the Italy of the 1970s where the corruption of the police sometimes covered the thieves in the shadow of the terrorists. Cynical, to masterly literary work, in the "Truman Capote" of Bennet Muller. And painful, when to revive the wound of children of the "passenger" of Eric Caravaca.

On the small screen

Friday: "Virgin Suicides", first film, as flaky morbidity, of Sofia Coppola (23 hours, CC Emotion). Saturday: two films anthology, "Casablanca", in Michael Curtiz (22 p.m., TCM) and "Barry Lyndon", Stanley Kubrick (23 hours, CC copyright). Sunday, a third, "African Queen", by John Huston (20 h 40, Arte) and then "the novel of a cheat", of Sacha Guitry (0 h 05, France 3).