These are the movies to see in theaters on December 25: Sonic 3, Nosferatu, Le Deluge with Guillaume Canet and Melanie Laurent…

Sonic 3 – Jeff Fowler’s movie

With Ben Schwartz, Idris Elba, Colin O’Shaughnessy…

what are you talking about Sonic, Knuckles and Tails find themselves facing a new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious and powerful enemy with new powers. Overwhelmed at every level, Team Sonic will have to form an unlikely alliance to try to stop Shadow and protect our planet.

did you know In two films, the Sonic saga brought in $724 million worldwide on the big screen. In France, the video game adaptation of The Adventures of the Hedgehog drew a cumulative 4.3 million viewers.

Nosferatu Robert Eggers

With Lily-Rose Depp, Bill Skarsgård, Willem Dafoe…

what are you talking about Nosferatu is a gothic tale, a story between a tormented young woman and the terrifying vampire she falls in love with, with all the horrors he unleashes in his wake.

did you know Robert Eggers originally considered Harry Styles and Anya Taylor-Joy for the lead roles, but busy schedules prevented them from joining the project. That’s how Lily-Rose Depp was chosen to play Ellen Hutter.

Gifts of Raphael Musafiri, Christoph Offenstein

With Chantal Laub, Gerard Darmont, Camille Lelouch…

what are you talking about Gifts…most of us look forward to them. Others fear them, or even forget them. Two days before Christmas, at Stains, we’re doubling down on ideas, but they’re far from good. What if the worst gift is yet to come?

My Sunshine by Hiroshi Okuyama

With Sosuke Ikematsu, Keitatsu Koshiyama, Kiara Nakanishi…

what are you talking about On the island of Hokkaido, winter is hockey season for the boys. Takuya, on the other hand, is more captivated by Sakura from Tokyo, who imitates the followers of figure skating. He clumsily tries to follow suit so well that Sakura’s coach, annoyed by his efforts, decides to train them as a duo for an upcoming competition…

did you know To play the characters of Takuya and Sakura, Hiroshi Okuyama chose young people who knew how to skate. And since they had no acting experience, the director did not give them a script. He recalls:

“All the lines were dictated to them on the set, so that they didn’t have to memorize them beforehand, I wanted them to be able to experience the scenes we were shooting as if they were real events, to be able to interpret them freely, as if they were happening on film.” The set was real life.”

A pretty nice diastema

With Clara Lucian, Jose Garcia, William Lebgill…

what are you talking about From Paris to Rome in the 1970s, the fate of a broke writer collides with that of a rising movie star. Their path to love will be littered with pitfalls, misunderstandings and twists. Grigal musical comedy!

did you know Diastem and writer/composer Alex Beaupain have been friends since the late 1990s and have never worked together. The director explains: “And one day, ten years ago, we decided to give it a try.”. Alex continues: “Diastema told me: ‘We could do an operetta!’ I immediately laughed at the idea of ​​an operetta.”

The flood of Gianluca Jodis

With Guillaume Canet, Melanie Laurent, Aurore Brutin…

what are you talking about 1792, the ancien régime ended. In Paris, Louis XVI and his wife Marie-Antoinette were arrested and taken to the dungeons of the Tour du Temple. Loosely inspired by the notebooks of Claire, the king’s servant who stayed with him until his death.

did you know The film tells the story that has never been told: the months when the King and Queen of France, along with their two children, were imprisoned in a medieval castle in Paris awaiting execution. Gianluca Jodis explains: “The brief period from which the present world arose.”

“A period in which all the masks and symbols of the past, public and private, have fallen: the royal couple, the ancien regime, the page of history irrevocably turned and the god who has disappeared into the shadows, the king abandoned and left alone.”

Planet B by Aude Lea Rapin

With Adel Exarchopoulos, Suheila Yakub, Elian Umuhire…

what are you talking about France, 2039. One night, activists hunted by the state disappear, including Julia Bombart. When he wakes up, he finds himself trapped in a completely unfamiliar world: Planet B.

did you know Planet B is a genre film starring the heroine. A choice by a director who regrets that science fiction literature has sidelined women in leading roles for so long. This is one of the reasons that prompted him to make this film.

My inseparable Anne-Sophie Bailey

With Laure Calamis, Charles Peccia-Galetto, Julie Frogger…

what are you talking about Mona lives with her thirty-year-old son, Joel, who is “late.” He works in a specialized facility, ESAT, and is passionately in love with his colleague Okani, who is also disabled. Although Mona knows nothing about this relationship, she learns that Ocean is pregnant. The close relationship between mother and child disappears.

Motel Destino by Karim Aïnouz

With Iago Xavier, Natalie Rocha, Fabio Asuncão…

what are you talking about Ceará, northeast coast of Brazil. 30 degrees all year round. Every night at the Destino Motel, dangerous games of desire, power and violence take place in the shadows. One evening, the arrival of a young Heraldo breaks the rules of the motel.

Ernest Cole, photographer of Raoul Peck

With Lakeith Stanfield, Raoul Peck…

what are you talking about Ernest Cole, a South African photographer, was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to the world. His book The House of Slavery, published in 1967 when he was only 27, led him to exile in New York and Europe for the rest of his life, without ever finding his addiction.

Raoul Peck tells us about his wanderings, the suffering of the artist and his daily anger at the silence or complicity of the Western world in the face of the horrors of the apartheid regime. He also recounts how in 2017, 60,000 negatives of his work were discovered in a Swedish bank safe.