20 Sep

Films and series as of Sept 20th

Your films and series as of Sept 20th.

New Miyazaki film, The boy and the heron

Ferrari, next film by Michael Mann starring Adam Driver & Penelope Cruz, next Christmas.

FESTIVALS

As of September

Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Created in 1993, the Women Make Waves International Film Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary in France, the cradle of cinema and feminism, at the Forum des images from September 19 to October 8!

30 women directors from different generations are in the spotlight, with fiction, documentary, animation and experimental films.

At a time when the international situation remains tense and Taiwan’s place is more crucial than ever in the global geopolitical balance, it’s the perfect time to present the diversity of its faces through 30 films directed by women.

Eight of them, along with festival members, will accompany their films and take part in two round-table discussions.

Programme

Festival Play It Again !

From September 13 to 26, Play It Again! will offer viewers in nearly 300 cinemas the chance to see or re-see on the big screen a selection of the year’s finest classics in newly restored versions, a retrospective of “Heroines in the Cinema”, outdoor screenings as part of the European Heritage Days, and a variety of other activities.

Programme

Paris Shark Week Festival

Expected films

She came to me, Rebecca Miller, with Anne Hathaway, Marisa Tomei, Peter Dinklage.

The Creator, Gareth Edwards

Bob Marley: One Love, Reinaldo Marcus Green with Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch.

ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT FILMS & SERIES

Les Feuilles mortes, Aki Kaurismäki

With Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen, Janne Hyytiäinen

Two lonely people meet by chance one night in Helsinki, and each tries to find in the other their first, only and last love. But life tends to put obstacles in the path of those seeking happiness.

This will be a short review, unfortunately Covid obliges.

Go and see this magnificent film, which would have deserved the Palme d’Or, a bitter-sweet romantic comedy set amidst the war in Ukraine.

A bit of the absurd, some poetry, and the struggle to cope economically in a world that’s getting harder and harder for the most precarious.

The actors are sublime.

FILMS IN MOVIE THEATERS AS OF SEPT 20TH

La Petite, Guillaume Nicloux

With Fabrice Luchini, Mara Taquin, Maud Wyler

Joseph learns that his son and his son’s partner have died in an accident. They were expecting a child via a surrogate mother in Belgium. The sixty-year-old sets out to meet the young Flemish woman, whose character is fierce and rebellious…

L’Arbre aux papillons d’or, Pham Thien

After the death of his sister-in-law in a road accident in Saigon, Thien must accompany her remains to the family village, accompanied by his 5-year-old nephew, miraculously unharmed after the collision.

In the hinterland, the spectres of his own youth, of his brother who has left to rebuild his life who knows where, and of the war, await him. This is a mystical pilgrimage into rural Vietnam and its little-known Christian minority.

Pham Thien An’s Caméra d’or 2023 debut plunges us into the heart of the Vietnamese mountains. With Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh, Nguyen Thinh.

Déserts, Faouzi Bensaïdi

With Fehd Benchemsi, Abdelhadi Talbi, Rabii Benjhaile

Mehdi and Hamid work for a collection agency in Casablanca. They travel to remote villages in the Moroccan south to extort money from over-indebted families…

Comme une louve, Caroline Glorion

With Mathilde La Musse, Sandrine Bonnaire, Sarah Suco

Lili, a 26-year-old working-class woman, is raising her three children alone. Wrongly accused of abuse, social services take them away from her. She collapses, but soon, surrounded by strong women and a budding love interest, Lili embarks on a decisive battle to rebuild her family.

Mise au vert, Yohann Charrin

With Frederick Guillaud, Alexandra Holzhammer, Juliette Charrin

Tightening family ties, freeing his teenagers from their digital addiction, reconnecting with his roots in the region of his childhood: this is why Régis decides to take his wife and children on a surprise vacation in the Vercors. An old ruined house lost in the forest. No water, no electricity, and even less electricity.

Last Dance !, Delphine Lehericey

With François Berléand, Kacey Mottet Klein, Maria Ribot

A contemplative pensioner, Germain suddenly finds himself a widower at the age of 75. Honoring a promise he made to his wife, he is thrust into the heart of a contemporary dance creation…

Acide, Just Philippot

With Guillaume Canet, Laetitia Dosch, Patience Munchenbach

Selma, 15, is growing up between her two estranged parents, Michal and Élise. Clouds of devastating acid rain are descending on France. In a world about to go under, this fractured family will have to unite to face this climatic catastrophe and try to escape it.

Classified People, Yolande Zauberman

With Doris, Robert

In 1948, a racial classification law was proclaimed in South Africa. Robert was judged to be of mixed race by the administrative court, while his wife and children were classified as white and rejected him. With Doris, his second wife, black, with whom he has lived for 25 years, he recounts the violence of apartheid.

Follia, Charles Guérin Surville

With Stefano Cassetti, Manal Issa, Danil Vorobyev

After an accident, a filmmaker tries to pick up the pieces of reality. Gradually, it becomes clear that his only subject is the perpetual revival of his lost love.

Zou, Claire Glorieux

The exile of an Afghan man who lost his leg in a Taliban mine explosion. He managed to cross several countries before arriving in Calais, France, where he now works as a leg prosthetist.

Movies to come (and we are looking forward to it):

The Color Purple, Blitz Bazawule (“Black Is King,” “The Burial of Kojo”) and produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones.

Expected December 25th.

Bottoms, Emma Seligman

Wonka, Paul King, in December.

TIPS ON MOVIE WRITING

Scott Myers : Go into the story

FILMS & SERIES PROGRAM ON TV

Mercredi- Wednesday 20

Arte : Omar m’a tuer

France 4 : Sting, l’électron libre

Jeudi – Thursday 21

TF1 : Le diable s’habille en Prada

Arte: Kidnapping

C8 : Terminator 2

TMC : P.R.O.F.S

Vendredi – Friday 22

France 5 : La liste de Schindler

Dimanche – Sunday 24

France 2 : L’hermine

Canal + : Astérix et Obélix : l’empire du Milieu

Arte : Le masque de Zorro

TMC : Seven

M6 : Un silence si bruyant

Directed by Anastasia Mikova & Emmanuelle Béart, “Un Silence si bruyant” is a powerful and edifying documentary about incest. Constructed as an initiatory journey by the two directors, the film gives voice to four victims of childhood sexual violence, while revealing Emmanuelle Béart’s personal journey.

These powerful and sometimes unbearably true testimonies deal with the subject of child abuse in an incredibly fair and discreet way, and contribute to the liberation of speech in a unique way.

This film lifts the veil on a crime that affects all walks of life and all socio-professional categories. It’s a sensitive, fair and intimate journey.

Lundi – Monday 25

France 3 : The Revenant

Canal + : 66-5

Arte : La dernière marche

W9 : Jack Reacher

TMC : Les gardiens de la galaxie Vol2

Mardi – Tuesday 26

Canal + : Mon crime

Mercredi – Wednesday 27

Arte : Nathalie

ARTE ‘ FILMS & SERIES AS OF SEPT 20TH

Films

The girl with the golden hands : In a small town in the former GDR, a woman wants to save her childhood orphanage, while her daughter wonders about her origins. A sensitive family drama about the difficult relationship between East and West after reunification

Operations eye in the sky : A drone operation in Kenya involving terrorists and civilians has its outcome hanging on a chain of political decisions. Starring Helen Mirren, this real-time thriller questions the moral stakes of modern warfare.

Docs

Women’s health: from ignorance to recognition, Ursula Duplantier & Marta Schröer

Wrong diagnoses, inappropriate treatments, persistent shortcomings in higher education… The medical field, whose benchmark remains the male body, still too often neglects the physiological particularities of women.

Three cities conquering the world Amsterdam, London, New York

Over the past four hundred years, Amsterdam, London and New York have developed a new urban model, organized around an increasingly ambitious commercial and financial project. From the first stock exchange to the construction of skyscrapers, these cities were at the heart of many crucial innovations. They gave rise to the concept of “world cities”, and serve as a model for today’s great megacities.

Brainwashed

Through a rigorous analysis of over 175 film extracts, Nina Menkes shows that a systemic sexism guides the representation of women in cinema. Is the seventh art “the common language of rape culture”?

Series

Kidnapping, Fabian Wullenweber

An intimate thriller set against the backdrop of the European crisis, “Kidnapping” returns for a second season with no downtime. As the only person who knows the truth about his daughter’s fate, Danish investigator Rolf Larsen resumes his search alongside his French colleague.