Ali Cherri: Today Is Ok

Preview: written before the show opened

On 14 July, while France celebrates Bastille Day, Sergeant Lafleur gets one night out of barracks. A military doctor, played by Eric Cantona, lets him go if he is back before dawn. That is La Sentinelle, Ali Cherri's 29-minute film, which premiered in Critics' Week at Cannes in May with Nahuel Pérez Biscayart as Lafleur.

Cherri says the film's sets are built, "at times visibly so", and here the film spills off the screen into sets, sculptures and installations. The centrepiece is a monumental sculpture modelled on military memorials, turned to show a soldier's vulnerability rather than his heroism. You watch the film, then walk out among what was built around it.

At Cannes, Gilles Khoury of L'Orient-Le Jour called it one of Critics' Week's most striking entries, lit by red neon reminiscent of David Lynch sets. The film is in French and Arabic. It opens on 21 October; the €13 ticket (€9 reduced, free under 18) covers every show. Closed Tuesdays, open until midnight Thursdays.