Every Wednesday, find our selection of the five most anticipated cinema releases of the week. A selection of must-see films to discover now in theaters.
1. Minions and Monsters
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Directors: Pierre Coffin, Patrick Delage
Cast: Pierre Coffin, Alexandre Astier, Christoph Waltz
Synopsis: A story as far-fetched as it is absurd, but of course completely true, which tells how the Minions, set out to conquer Hollywood, became movie stars, only to lose everything while unleashing a band of wild monsters in the process.
2. The Whims of the Child King
Genre: Comedy-drama, Historical
Director: Michel Leclerc
Cast: Artus, Julia Piaton, Nemo Schiffman
Synopsis: 1651. Louis (not yet XIV) is a young teenager. As the Fronde threatens, his mother Anne of Austria decides to smuggle her son away to safety and replaces him with a double. Louis is entrusted by D’Artagnan to Cyrano de Bergerac who hides him within the theater troupe of Madeleine Béjart and Molière. While Madeleine and Cyrano discover a shared passion for the young Molière, Louis discovers life and its pleasures, art and work, courage and strategy, everything that will make him the Sun King.
3. The Perfect(s): Family Scams
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ludovic Bernard
Cast: Audrey Fleurot, Ramzy Bedia, Alan Cumming
Synopsis: In the Toussaint household, from grandfather to youngest, scamming is an art that pays. On the run, they must flee. Only option? Assume the identity of an ordinary family – the Parfaits – and take refuge…in Scotland. Between overly curious colleagues and a mysterious neighbor, their double life will quickly get complicated: the fake Parfaits find themselves facing the heist of a lifetime. Wild plans, crazy disguises, amazing gadgets: to succeed, our not-so-ordinary family will have to prove it’s more than perfect.
4. Anesthesia
Genre: Documentary
Director: Damien Boyer
Synopsis: This documentary explores the human consequences of the legalization of assisted dying through several testimonies in Europe and Quebec.
5. Noise
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Director: Soo-jin Kim
Cast: Lee Sun-bin, Kim Min-seok, Kyung-soo Ryu
Synopsis: Ju-young, who is deaf, discovers that her sister has mysteriously disappeared from her apartment. While searching for answers, she encounters terrified neighbors obsessed with silence and an increasingly oppressive atmosphere. At night, unexplained noises echo through the deserted building, awakening an invisible presence. What she thought was a simple disappearance becomes a terrifying dive into a nightmare haunted by silence (not recommended for children under 12).
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