Who says Wednesday means cinema. Today, we offer you our selection of films of the week, to guide you best in the dark rooms.
1. The Phoenician Scheme – Wes Anderson
The brilliant Wes Anderson returns with an offbeat fable with vintage espionage accents, blending deadpan humor and chiseled aesthetics. A singular cast (Benicio Del Toro) and a sixties soundtrack for a colorful auteur comedy.
While dark forces target the empire of Zsa-zsa Korda, her daughter Liesl, who has chosen a religious life, is called back to the secular world. Father and daughter must collaborate, despite their differences, to unravel a complex espionage network and save the family business.
2. Hot Milk – Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Adapted from the novel by Deborah Levy, this introspective drama explores the toxic ties between a sick mother and her daughter seeking freedom, on the scorching beaches of southern Spain. Emma Mackey delivers one of her most troubling performances.
During a stifling summer, Rose and her daughter Sofia go to Almeria, a resort town in southern Spain. They consult the enigmatic Doctor Gómez, who might cure Rose’s illness, which has left her wheelchair-bound. Sofia, until now held back by a possessive mother, succumbs to the magnetic charm of Ingrid, a wanderer who lives by her own rules. As Sofia breaks free, Rose cannot stand seeing her daughter slip away – and the old grudges weighing on their relationship will come to light.
3. Lili Marleen (Restored Reissue) – Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Fassbinder’s melancholic masterpiece, this film is reissued in a restored version to give voice once again to Lili Marleen, a singer caught between love and Nazi propaganda. A moving fresco, emblematic of 1980s German cinema.
In Zurich in 1938, Willie, a young German cabaret singer, loves Robert, the pianist at the club where she performs. She doesn’t know that Robert is part of an organization led by his father, which helps German Jews in danger to leave their country. War breaks out, separating the lovers. With her song Lili Marleen, Willie becomes a star in Nazi Germany, listened to and adored by millions of soldiers.
4. The Ultimate Heist – Frederik Louis Hviid
A tense and stylish Nordic thriller, at the crossroads of Heat and Drive, where Reda Kateb plays a tormented police officer facing a band of determined robbers. In short: icy shots, nerve-racking tension, and blurred morality.
A team of seasoned robbers meticulously plans a big heist. A rapid, brutal theft, flawless and without a trace. But one mistake changes everything. They must abandon everything and disappear. Now.
5. Else – Thibault Emin
An auteur film with a troubling atmosphere, Else is a dark and sensory tale that blurs the boundaries between reality, dream, and amorous nightmare. A bold proposal, as romantic as it is terrifying.
The apocalypse is not far off. An epidemic rages outside: a single glance is enough for living beings to be contaminated, condemning them to fuse with things, to merge with objects. And yet, a couple has just formed, and they love each other, confined in an apartment… waiting for the worst.
