When it’s Wednesday, it’s cinema time. Today we offer you our selection of films of the week, to guide you as best as possible in the dark rooms.
1. Planet of the Apes: The New Kingdom by Wes Ball
Several generations after the reign of Caesar, the apes have definitively taken power. The humans, on the other hand, have regressed to a wild state and live in seclusion. As a new tyrannical leader slowly builds his empire, a young ape embarks on a perilous journey that will lead him to question everything he knows about the past and to make choices that will define the future of apes and humans…
2. A Man on the Run by Baptiste Debraux
Rochebrune is on the brink of chaos. Johnny, the leader of the town’s protest movement, disappeared after robbing a van. When Paul Ligre hears the news, he returns to the town where he grew up to find his childhood friend before the police. However, Anna Werner’s investigation inevitably leads her to the secret that binds Paul and Johnny…
3. The Coubertin Spirit by Jérémie Sein
After ten days of competition, the Games are a fiasco for the French delegation which hasn’t managed to win a gold medal. All hopes for a title now rest on Paul, world champion shooter but an immature and not very smart athlete. As the competition approaches, he is forced to share his room with a swimmer who seems more interested in the extra-sport temptations of the village than in his race.
4. Neuilly-Poissy by Grégory Boutboul
Schemer and smooth talker, navigating between his flourishing business and his fulfilled family life, Daniel is a satisfied man. But, following a financial misconduct, he must trade overnight his luxurious apartment in Neuilly for a 9m2 cell in Poissy prison. From business suit to track suit and flip-flops, the fall is brutal. Daniel finds himself lost in an environment whose codes he does not know. But don’t underestimate his charm, his humor, and his innate sense of resourcefulness…
5. Like a Monday by Ryo Takebayashi
Is your boss harassing you? Are your colleagues exhausting you? Don’t want to go back to the office? You can’t imagine what Yoshikawa and his colleagues are going through! Because, in addition to the hassle, they are trapped in a time loop… that restarts every Monday! Between two client meetings, will they manage to find the way out?
