When it’s Wednesday, it means cinema. Today, we offer you our selection of films for the week to guide you through the dark theaters.
1. Second Tour by Albert Dupontel
Following the successes of “Au revoir là-haut” and “Adieu les Cons,” Albert Dupontel directs and stars in a parody of the political and media world during a presidential campaign. Mademoiselle Pove is a TV journalist, with her days of covering politics long gone since being reassigned to the sports section by her network. Due to a series of events, she ends up being the only one able to follow the favorite candidate in the presidential election, a certain Pierre-Henry Mercier, nicknamed PH, a brilliant economist she knew in her childhood. He was much less polished then, so she investigates… A biting satire with Cécile de France and Nicolas Maré.
2. Chambre 999 by Lubna Playoust
“Is cinema a language about to be lost, an art that is dying?” is the question Wim Wenders poses to thirty contemporary filmmakers in this documentary shot during the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Forty years earlier, in “Room 666,” released in 1982, the German director interviewed sixteen of his filmmaker colleagues in the same way. They were given carte blanche to respond.
3. Saw X by Kevin Greutert
This new installment of the horror franchise “Saw” narrates the events that took place between the films Saw I and Saw II. In this episode, we find John Kramer aka Jigsaw, suffering from cancer and desperately searching for a cure. It’s to Mexico that he decides to travel to undergo an experimental operation, seemingly promising, a program in which he sees a glimmer of hope. The shock comes when he realizes the scam orchestrated to exploit the vulnerability of patients in dire suffering. Rage awakens his vengeful spirit, and the puzzle killer springs into action.
4. 3 Days Max by Tarek Boudali
In this sequel to “30 Days Max,” Rayane, a somewhat clumsy but heroic policeman played by Tarek Boudali, is faced with a new, most whimsical mission. His grandmother has been kidnapped by a dangerous Mexican cartel, and he has only 3 days max to rescue her.
5. The Pod Generation by Sophie Barthes
In a near future where artificial intelligence prevails over nature, Rachel and Alvy, a New York couple, decide to have a child. An ambitious businesswoman on the rise and driven by a society that advocates personal fulfillment through career success, Rachel decides to turn to technology to have a child. A company offers future parents the option to carry the unborn child in a POD, an artificial womb with a minimalist design. Alvy is hesitant; he wishes to conceive a child naturally, but Rachel convinces him to opt for this method, sold as simpler and more equal.
