Alleluia (2014)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Fabrice Du Welz (Calvaire, Vinyan)
	Actors: Leurent Lucas (Calvaire), Stéphane Bissot, Lola Dueñas (Les femmes du 6ème étage), Édith Le Merdy
	Country: F, B
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 11.07.2014, Theatre du Passage, NIFFF14
Synopsis: Gloria (Dueñas), rising her daughter alone, meets Michel (Lucas) via a dating website. She doesn't know yet that he is a womanizer taking advantage of his middle-aged conquests.
Review: Loosely inspired by the movie The Honeymoon Killers (1969) and the true story of Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck that inspired it (see Wikipedia entry), Alleluia is supposed to be the second movie by Fabrice du Welz in a Trilogy des Ardennes, after the totally weird and excellent Calvaire (The Ordeal in English). It depicts in a very realistic way the broken life of the two main characters played very convincingly by two excellent actors, in particular Lola Dueñas with her bright eyes and lovely smile. Alleluia is constantly displaying a dark and quite depressing atmosphere and that's what I like in the cinema by Fabrice du Welz: he insists on showing you things you don't necessarily want to see, like old folks having sex. I didn't like so much his previous movie Vinyan with Emmanuelle Béart, finding it too long and "contemplative", but even if Alleluia is also not easy to watch, I could relate better to this story taking place in a very real world, with very real problems faced by desperate people.
Rating: 6 /10