When you think Wednesday, you think movies. Today, we offer you our selection of the week’s films to help guide you in the dark rooms of the cinema.
1. Visions by Yann Gozlan
Estelle, portrayed on-screen by Diane Kruger, is an experienced airline pilot. Between two long-haul flights, she leads a fulfilling life with Guillaume, her loving and protective husband, played by Mathieu Kassovitz. This stability is turned upside down the day she crosses paths in an airport corridor with a woman she had a passionate affair with twenty years ago. Her name is Ana, and she is a photographer. Their reunion disrupts Estelle’s daily life, but not for the better. Her life takes a nightmarish, even irrational turn… A French thriller by the director of “Boîte Noire”.
2. Anti-Squat by Nicolas Silhol
Inès is threatened with eviction from her home, an apartment she shares with her 14-year-old son, Adam. Unwilling to give up, she is taken on trial as a resident manager at the Anti-Squat company. The company offers accommodations in vacant buildings to people in need. By doing this, the company aims to protect them from squatters. Her role is to recruit those who will become residents and subsequently monitor them so they adhere to the strict rules imposed by the company. A job to which she is fully committed, sacrificing much, but how far will she go, driven by the desire to succeed?
3. The Red Sky by Christian Petzold
A group of four young people, Leon, Felix, Nadja, and Devid, spend their summer vacation in a secluded house by the Baltic Sea. It’s very hot and it hasn’t rained for weeks. As tensions rise among the friends, a forest fire breaks out. Their relationships ignite as the uncontrolled flames threaten their home. The German film was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Berlinale 2023.
4. Toni en famille by Nathan Ambrosioni
Toni, whose full name is Antonia, played by Camille Cottin, is a mother of five teenagers. She raises her five children alone while working full-time. Some evenings, she sings in bars to earn extra money to support her family. She has talent; in another life, twenty years ago, she released a hit single. As her two eldest prepare to go to university and take flight, at 43, Toni faces the future. What will she do next? What kind of life does she want to lead outside of her role as a mother? It’s time for her to change her life.
5. The Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Keiichi Hara
The Lonely Castle in the Mirror is a Japanese animated film adapted from the novel of the same name by Mizuki Tsujimura, published in 2017. Kokoro is a young middle school student suffering from school phobia. She hasn’t set foot in her school for a few days, staying alone in her room at home. One day, her mirror starts to shimmer, and drawn to it, she magically passes through. She finds herself transported to a magnificent castle fit for a fairy tale. Greeted by a girl wearing a wolf mask, she meets six other teenagers and discovers why they are all there.
