Your weekly program as from April 5th
All the best films as from April 5th:
Soon in theaters:
Barbie, by Greta Gerwig
Asteroid city, Wes Anderson
The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, season 5, as of April 14 on Prime Video
FESTIVAL
The Forum des images honors one of the most filmed cities in the history of cinema: Los Angeles.
An essential territory of the 7th art, the city of angels feeds multiple imaginations. A reservoir of dreams and fantasies, between violence and glamour, it is familiar to the moviegoer. But what do we know about the real city?
From April 12 to July 6, 80 films, 9 cinema classes, “pop” screenings and a photo exhibition constitute a temporal and geographical journey to the heart of its myths and the reality of its districts.
Accompanied by numerous guests, including filmmakers David Robert Mitchell and Laura Gabbert (City of Gold), Academy Museum Associate Director K.J. Relth-Miller, storyboarder Sylvain Despretz, and film course instructors, this rich program paints a contrasting and contemporary portrait of Los Angeles, a world city between desert and ocean.
ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT FILMS & SERIES IN THEATERS & AT HOME
The Power, Raelle Tucker, Naomi Alderman, Claire Wilson, & Sarah Quintrell
Synopsis
The world of The Power is our world, but for one twist of nature.
Suddenly, and without warning, all teenage girls in the world develop the power to electrocute people at will. It’s hereditary, it’s inbuilt, and it can’t be taken away from them.
Coming alive to the thrill of pure power: the ability to hurt or even kill by releasing electrical jolts from their fingertips, they rapidly learn they can awaken the Power in older women. Soon enough nearly every woman in the world can do it.
And then everything is different.
What if…
They had the power. Who? The women!
If nothing and no one could constrain them anymore and if finally, their turn had come, in the four corners of the planet. If they were no longer afraid of being assaulted in the street, in the transport, or mistreated by their employer and if, in their turn, they took the power. What would they do with all these possibilities?
Would they have a serious and justified desire for revenge?
After seeing Annick Cojean‘s play, Une farouche liberté, with Ariane Ascaride and Philippine Pierre-Brossolette about Gisèle Halimi’s fights for justice, this series recently released on Prime Video came at the right time in my busy week of feminist content consumption.
And that’s good. With Toni Collette in the lead role of a female politician endlessly forced to justify everything to men of power, and the young women suddenly gifted with unlimited power that they can pass on, The Power is galvanizing.
What if God had a woman’s voice?
Don’t miss this series, the first three episodes currently available on Amazon Prime Video.
IN MOVIE THEATERS
All films as from April 5th
About Kim Sohee, July Jung
With Doona Bae, Kim Si-eun
Kim Sohee is a high school student with a strong character. For her graduation internship, she joins a call center of Korea Telecom. In a few months, her morale declined under the weight of degrading working conditions and increasingly difficult objectives.
L’Établi, Mathias Gokalp
With Swann Arlaud, Mélanie Thierry, Denis Podalydès
A few months after May 1968, Robert, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and an extreme left-wing activist, decides to get a job at Citroën as a production line worker. Like other comrades, he wants to infiltrate the factory to rekindle the revolutionary fire, but the majority of workers do not want to hear about politics.
C’est mon homme, Guillaume Bureau
With Leïla Bekhti, Karim Leklou, Louise Bourgoin
Julien Delaunay disappeared on a battlefield during the Great War. His wife, Julie, does not believe he is dead. And when the press publishes the portrait of a man with amnesia, she is certain she recognizes Julien. They meet again and learn to love each other again. But another woman claims this man as her husband.
À mon seul désir, Lucie Borleteau
With Zita Hanrot, Louise Chevillotte, Laure Giappiconi
You’ve never been to a strip club? But you’ve already wanted to… at least once… you just didn’t dare. This movie is about someone who dared.
Les Trois Mousquetaires: D’Artagnan, Martin Bourboulon
With François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris
From the Louvre to Buckingham Palace, from the underbelly of Paris to the siege of La Rochelle… in a Kingdom divided by the Wars of Religion and threatened with invasion by England, a handful of men and women will cross their swords and bind their fate to that of France.
The Forest Maker,, Volker Schlöndorff
In 1981, the Australian Tony Rinaudo, a young agronomist, arrived in Niger to fight against the increasing extension of the desert and the misery of the population. He noticed a huge network of roots under the soil considered dead. A discovery that will be at the origin of an unprecedented regreening policy, giving hope to a whole population.
Super Mario Bros , Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic
Movies to come (and we are looking forward to it):
The Quiet girl, Colm Bairéad
TIPS ON MOVIES
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FILMS PROGRAM AS FROM April 5th
Mercredi- Wednesday 5
Arte : L’auberge espagnole
Jeudi – Thursday 6
Arte :One Lane Bridge (série)
Canal + : The English
Vendredi – Friday 7
Arte : La bonne conduite
Canal + : Novembre
Dimanche – Sunday 9
France 2 : La folie des grandeurs
Arte : Ben Hur
Lundi – Monday 10
Canal + : the Crash
Arte : Vacances Romaines
Mercredi- Wednesday 12
Arte : Les poupées russes
AS FROM April 5th FILMS & SERIES ON ARTE
FILMS
Mona Lisa
George, a virtuous mobster, discovers vice when he comes into contact with a beautiful black call girl… Under the guise of a thriller, a sharp and moving moral tale, directed by Neil Jordan (“The Crying Games”) and served by remarkable actors, Bob Hoskins in the lead.
My Left Foot
The painful struggle of a man trapped in his body to emancipate himself… Retracing the life of the painter Christy Brown, Jim Sheridan (“In the name of the father”) delivers a moving plea in favor of the difference, served by Daniel Day-Lewis, masterly.
Jack
Placed in a foster home, Jack runs away, picks up his little brother and feverishly searches for their mother, who has abandoned them… A poignant child’s quest filmed with tremendous vitality by Edward Berger, the director of “Nothing New in the West”, which has just won four Oscars
DOC
Marimekko & Maija Isola – Finnish design conquers the world
A look back at the atypical career of Maija Isola, a free spirit of Finnish design, intimately linked to the Marimekko brand.
Series
Good people, Matthieu Donck
In the Belgian Ardennes, Tom and Linda Leroy, an over-indebted couple, set up an insurance scam to get out of trouble… By the scriptwriters of “La trêve”, a series with a sharp black humor.
Manayek, betrayal in the police, by Alon Zingman director of Shtisel (series available on Netflix : listen to the podcast here
Blackport, Gísli Örn Garðarsson et Björn Hlynur Haraldsson
All films as from April 5th on Netflix
The elephant whisperers, Kartiki Gonsalves, now
Transatlantic, Anna Winger & Daniel Hendler, as of April 7th.
Fubar, ARNOLD. IS. BACK. As of May 25
All films as from April 5th on Prime Video
Citadel, David Weil, as of April 28th
Salade Grecque, series created by Cédric Klapisch, as of April 14.
20 years after l’Auberge Espagnole, the story goes on.
All films as from April 5th on Canal+
Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright
Minx, Ellen Rapoport
The English, Hugo Blick
Novembre, Cédric Jimenez, as of April 7th
The Crash series, Michael Leendertse, as of April 10th
All films as from April 5th on Apple TV
Tetris, Jon S. Baird.
Ghosted, Dexter Fletcher, Chris Evans & Ana de Armas, as of April 21st
Silo, Graham Yost, as of May 5th
All films as from April 5th on Disney Plus
Unprisoned, Tracy McMillan,
L’étrangleur de Boston, Matt Ruskin
The Good Mothers, Stephen Butchard, as of April 5th
Peter Pan & Wendy, as of April 28th.
The Little Mermaid 2, Rob Marshall, forecast on May 2023.
Guardians of the Galaxy, as of May 3rd
