When it’s Wednesday, it’s cinema. Today, we offer you our selection of the week’s films to best guide you in the dark rooms.
1. C’est pas moi by Leos Carax
Leos Carax returns with a dramatic biopic of 42 minutes alongside Denis Lavant, Ekaterina Yuspina, Loreta Juodkaite. For an exhibition that ultimately did not take place, the Pompidou Museum asked the filmmaker to answer the question in images: Where are you, Leos Carax? He attempts a response, full of questions. About himself, his world. I don’t know. But if I knew, I would answer that… Answer in theaters.
2. Love Lies Bleeding by Rose Glass
An American romantic thriller embodied by the duo Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brien. Lou, the solitary manager of a gym, falls madly in love with Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder. Their passionate and explosive relationship will lead them, despite themselves, into a spiral of violence.
3. Gloria! by Margherita Vicario
A historical musical drama set in 18th-century Venice. At the Institute Sant’Ignazio, an orphanage and conservatory for young girls, everyone is bustling in preparation for the imminent visit of the new Pope and the grand concert to be held in his honor. Teresa, a quiet and solitary young maid, makes an exceptional discovery that will revolutionize the life of the conservatory: a fortepiano.
4. Paradis Paris by Marjane Satrapi
Former opera star Giovanna fumes: while she was mistakenly declared dead, the tributes from the press are slow to come. Mike, an English stuntman, can he decently fear death when he defies it every day? Smoking kills, but Dolores doesn’t care: on her granddaughter’s 15th birthday, she unilaterally makes a pact with God. As she attempts suicide, Marie-Cerise, a bullied, humiliated, and depressed teenager, is kidnapped and will naturally make her captor her therapist. Although Edouard has been hosting a famous crime show on TV for years, he struggles when confronted with his own mortality.
In the vibrant and cosmopolitan streets of Paris, these fates intertwine and respond to each other, connected by universal figures of everyday life: a cleaning woman, a cop, a café owner. And if, facing death, the best option is still to live?
5. The Watchers by Ishana Shyamalan
Film not suitable for under 12s. Lost in a forest, Mina finds refuge in a house already occupied by three people. She will then discover the rules of this very secret place: every night, the inhabitants must allow themselves to be watched by the mysterious occupants of the forest. They cannot see them, but they watch everything.
