Tired of French cinema? Here are 12 movies that will give you a taste of it this summer!

Discover our selection of 12 films in chronological order of release.

One Night – Released July 5, 2023

Paris, a crowded subway, an evening like any other. A woman (Karin Viard) pushes a man (Alex Lutz), they argue. Very quickly, the electric current transforms into… fiery desire. Two strangers get off the train and make love in the cabin of a photo booth. The night belongs to them now. Directed by Alex Lutz, Une nuit presents itself as an enchanted one-night stand, in which the characters are faced with questions in one night that could have been a lifetime. Une Nuit hits theaters on July 5.

Letitia Ratane and Bridget Baronet

Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra – Released July 5, 2023

21-and-a-half years after its first appearance (and its 14.4 million admissions!), Alain Chabat’s iconic Asterix will be released everywhere in France, priced at €5 apiece and in a fully restored version, on July 5, 2023.

promise”full of surprises“, which is likely a few bonus scenes. But above all, the film has been completely restored in 4K for an updated viewing experience!

The film is adapted from the album Asterix and Cleopatra, which is considered by producer Claude Berry as “One of the most cinematic albums“. The film’s success and longevity have proven him right! This release on July 5th, 2023 coincides with the film festival and this film will continue to be priced on July 5th.

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Green Algae – Released on July 12, 2023

Ines Leroy’s shocking investigation into green algae turns into a feature film. After being the subject of a fascinating comic book adaptation, the investigative journalist collaborated on this film version with director and screenwriter Pierre Jolivet.

The film stages the discoveries this journalist will make, finding the right balance to make the subject matter accessible, understandable, while avoiding the “film file”. Salet is very honest and lovable, and all the characters around him bring a lot of humanity to the story.

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The Return – Released on July 12, 2023

After 2021’s La Fracture, Catherine Corsin returns with the aptly named Le Retour. The solar film centers on two young women and their mother, who return to Corsica after many years of leaving the island. The mystery revolves around the real reasons for this departure, and more broadly Le Retour creates concern about the family ties that unite this family, whose father died soon after.

Its common thread, in addition to the above-mentioned family secrets, is also and above all the chronicle of two teenage girls who indulge in all the temptations of summer. The latter are portrayed by Esther Gohuru (seen in Minion) and Suzy Bemba (seen in L’Opera). As the mother, we meet Aissatou Diallo Sagna, Cesar for Best Supporting Actor for La Fracture. Like La Fracture, Le Retour was also in competition at Cannes this year. The selection that caused the ink to flow.

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In the branch – released on July 26, 2023

Let yourself be seduced by the On the branch character gallery. After the party is over, director Marie Garrel-Weiss envisions another film that focuses on fairy-tale characters whose meeting will lead to sparks.

Mimi (Daphne Patakia) is almost thirty years old and still dreams of what she could do when she grows up. When he decides to look for a job, he meets Paul (Benoît Poelvoorde), a lawyer. Together they will try to protect Kristoff, a little troublemaker who claims his innocence. If Paul sees in this work a way to restore himself, Mimi sees in it a mission, a path to justice and truth.

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August movies

The Royal Road – Released on August 9, 2023

After the TV series Gears, Criminal: France and The Island of 30 Coffins, Frédéric Mermud returns to directing feature films with La Voie Royale.

Directed by Suzanne Juanette, Marie Colombe, Maude Wyler and Marilyn Canto, the film follows Sophie, a brilliant high school student. Encouraged by his math teacher, he left the family farm to take a science prep class. Through meetings, successes and failures, Sophie realizes that her dream of integrating polytechnics is a real challenge of social ascension.

A story of the clash of learning and culture about social mobility and meritocracy.

Laetitia Forhan

Promises – Release August 9, 2023

Five years after The Holy Land, novelist and director Amanda Steers returns with The Promises, adapted from her own book.

Starring Italy’s Pierfrancesco Favino, Britain’s Kelly Reilly, Jean Reno, Cara Theobold and a young Leon Hesby (son of Amanda Sters and Patrick Bruel), who is making his screen debut, the feature follows Alexander (Favini). ). When he’s forty, he falls madly in love with Laura (Reilly), but she’s married and can’t change her life. This story, which will never turn into reality, will accompany him throughout his life. Between his English adolescence and his Italian childhood through the eyes of his rich and authoritarian grandfather (Jean Reno), the joy and trauma that characterizes them enlightens us about the paths Alexander does not take, and with him we ask ourselves the eternal question: What if…?

Les Promesses has toured festivals and recently premiered at the Cabourg Romantic Film Festival.

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A Masterstroke – Released on August 16, 2023

Friendship has been one of Remi Besançon’s favorite themes since its beginning. Death too. We find the two, to very different degrees, in Un Coup de maître, his seventh feature film.

Seen together in the very dark and disturbing Cheyenne by Samuel Benchetrit, Bully Lehners and Vincent McCain find themselves in a lighter and more graphic register: the two actors portray, respectively, an artist in the midst of an existential crisis and his friend who owns an art gallery. . The characters are both complementary to each other, like sides of the same coin that the filmmaker is playing with.

A comedy with a very, very slight detective accent, in which the director evokes today’s art (and therefore cinema by extension) while offering a duo whose chemistry is obvious. Their association is a masterstroke in itself.

Maximilien Pierret

The Beast in the Jungle – Released on August 16, 2023

Good casting for this beast in the jungle! The feature film, which premiered at the Berlinale earlier this year, reunites Anais Demostier, Tom Mercier and Beatrice Dalle.

The short description is as follows: for 25 years, in a huge nightclub, a man and a woman watch a mysterious event together. From 1979 to 2004, from disco to techno, a story, a love story, a story of obsession. The “case” will eventually be revealed, but in a much more tragic way than expected.

This is an adaptation of a text by Henry James. The film is directed by Patrick Chiha (Brothers of the Night, If It Was Love), written with Axel Ruppert and Jihane Chouaib.

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Anatomy of the Fall – Releases August 23, 2023

The 2023 Palme d’Or branch will enjoy a summer release! Two years after Titan, this is again the director’s French film, which was awarded by the Cannes jury. Anatomy of the Fall is a film of fascinating density and complexity. Justin Triet’s film, co-written with Arthur Harar, is based on a very rich screenplay, mixing genres. It is both a couple’s drama set in the fall, but it is also, and above all, a thriller and a trial film. The cast includes Sandra Hüller (seen in Toni Erdman), surrounded by Swan Arlod, young Milo Machado Graner, Antoine Reynartsi, Samuel Theis and Jenny Beth.

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Ama Gloria – Released on August 30, 2023

Remarkable piece! To end the summer on a high note, àma Gloria will arrive in our darkrooms on August 30th. This first solo feature from Marie Amachuckel (who co-directed Party Girl with Samuel Tay and Claire Burger) will blow your mind. The film tells the story of the bond between a little girl and her nanny. When Gloria must urgently return to Cape Verde, to her children. Cleo asks him to fulfill his promise: to see her as soon as possible. Gloria invites her family and the island to spend one last summer together… Tenderness and emotion are on the agenda for this film, which opened Critics’ Week in May.

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