Wonka by Paul King
With Timothée Chalamet, Kala Lane, Keegan-Michael Key…
What is it about? Discover the youth of Willy Wonka, the extraordinary inventor, wizard and chocolate wonderland of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in WONKA. Timothée Chalamet plays this young man full of ideas and determined to change the world… with gusto!
did you know Wonka is a project that emerged in 2016, when Warner acquired the rights to the famous Willy Wonka character created by Roald Dahl. Barley and the chocolate factoryIt was published in 1964. It was in 2018 that the idea of creating a prequel to this novel appeared. In the same year, the director was chosen: it was Paul King, to whom we owe Paddington and its sequel.
The Three Musketeers: Milady Martin Bourboulon
With Francois Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Dury…
What is it about? From the Louvre to Buckingham Palace, from the underbelly of Paris to the siege of La Rochelle… In a kingdom torn by religious wars and threatened by an English invasion, a few men and women will cross swords and link their destinies. that France.
did you know The Three Musketeers: Milady takes on a more tragic dimension than the first opus The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan, with a more topical love theme. Martin Bourboulon explains: “Unlike the previous part, the time of exhibition has passed. The duality between love and death is constant.”
Past Lives – Our Lives Before by Celine Song
With Greta Lee, Yo Teo, John Magaro…
What is it about? At the age of 12, Nora and Hae Seung are childhood friends, platonic lovers. Circumstances separate them. At the age of 20, chance connects them for some time. At the age of 30, they, as adults, face what they could have been and what they could have become.
did you know Past Lives – Nos vies d’avant was specially selected at the Sundance Film Festival and competed at the Berlin and Deauville Film Festivals.
The Indivisibles by Jeremy DeGrusson
With Eric Judor, Jean-Pascal Zadis, Anna Girardot…
What is it about? When the lights go down in the old theater in Central Park, the puppets come to life. Among them, Dhoni, who has been playing the same role of Jamuri for years. He dreams of playing the role of a real hero once and discovering the world. He takes courage in both hands and slams the door.
did you know The Inséparables is produced by nWave, a European animation studio founded in 1994 known for its expertise in computer-generated imagery and 3D. The studio is responsible for films such as Sammy, The Magic Mansion, Royal Corgi, Bigfoot Junior and Bigfoot Family.
Légua de João Miller Guerra, Filipa Reis
With Carla Maciel, Fatima Soares, Vitória Nogueira da Silva…
What is it about? In an old mansion in the north of Portugal, Ana helps Emilia, an old housekeeper, who continues to take care of a house where the owners no longer visit. Throughout the season, Monica, Anna’s daughter, questions her mother’s choices, and these three generations of women struggle to understand their place in a declining world.
did you know Legua is the name of a small village in northern Portugal where João Miller Guerra’s family has a house where he spent most of his summers. If he has wonderful memories of the time spent in this residence, once an adult began to think about the significance of this mansion, “the lives of the people who lived there, the social and economic structures that supported it, and the human relationships that formed there”.
Winter Vacation by Alexander Payne
With Paul Giamatti, Dominic Cessa, Davin Joy Randolph…
What is it about? Winter 1970: Mr. Hunham is a professor of ancient history at a prestigious private boys’ high school in New England. Pedantic and rude, neither students nor colleagues appreciate him. As Christmas approaches, Mr. Hunham is asked to stay on campus to keep an eye on some of the residents confined there.
did you know In the early 2010s, Alexander Payne saw Marcel Pagnoli’s Merlus (1935), which tells the story of several schoolchildren left at a boarding school. During the Christmas holidays, they have to face the scariest superintendent, Merlus, with a scarred face. The director envisioned this film as an excellent starting point for a new story.
Rue des dames de Hamé Bourokba, Ekoué Labitey
Garance Marillier, Bakary Keita, Sandor Funtek…
What is it about? Mia, 25, working in a small nail salon in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, learns that she is pregnant. He urgently needs to find a new apartment while his friend Nabil, who is out on parole, fights for his life.
did you know After the TV film Ink, the short Ce chemin avant moi and the remarkable feature film Les Derniers Parisiens, the duo column of the hip-hop group La Rumeur Hamé Bourokba and Ekoué Labitey write together Rue des dames, their third feature.
Follow_dead by John McPhail
With Augustus Preuss, Andrea Bang, Justin Long…
What is it about? Winter 1970: Mr. Hunham is a professor of ancient history at a prestigious private boys’ high school in New England. Pedantic and rude, neither students nor colleagues appreciate him. As Christmas approaches, Mr. Hunham is asked to stay on campus to keep an eye on some of the residents confined there.
did you know At the top of follow_dead we find a series of tweets published by illustrator Adam Ellis in 2017 and 2018. The latter told us how he was regularly haunted by the ghost of a little boy. An eye-opening and readable true horror story that captivated thousands of readers on social media, to the point where a movie theater picked it up to make a feature film.
Saving Goodness by Rolf de Heer
With Muajem Hussain, Deepti Sharma, Darsan Sharma…
What is it about? In the dry desert, under the blazing sun, a woman is abandoned in an iron cage. Determined to live, he manages to escape. He walks through the dunes, through the ruins of a desolate world, up a mountain, and down into a city. An odyssey that takes him to the limits of humanity…
did you know Inspirations from location scouting in South Australia determined how the story was approached: Instead of writing what I had in my head and finding the right locations, I found locations that I was interested in from a cinematic point of view that suggested what could happen there.
Broom was relieved by Colin Grando
What is it about? In the 1970s, cleaning ladies at the Catholic University of Louvain kicked out their boss and formed the cleaning cooperative Le Balai Libéré. 50 years later, UCLouvain’s cleaning staff meet yesterday’s workers: working without a boss, is it an option?
did you know When Colin Grando heard about Le Balai Libéré, he was immediately fascinated by the special nature of this story: cleaning women fire their boss and work on their own for 14 years… The director confides:
“I did some research in the archives to find out more, I found a story about a successful battle that is part of the history of Belgium in the 1970s, as well as the history of the new city of Louvain-la-Neuve. ”
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