When it’s Wednesday, it’s movie day. Today, we offer you our selection of films for the week, to best guide you in the theaters.
1. One Night by Alex Lutz
Two strangers bump into each other on the subway. Beneath this anger, the desire is so intense that they can’t take their eyes off each other. So, they escape the train car to make love in a photo booth. Their names are Aymerick and Nathalie, and they have the whole night ahead in a deserted Paris to discover each other and perhaps already say goodbye? A film presented out of competition and closing the Un Certain Regard at the 2023 Cannes Festival.
2. Luise by Matthias Luthard
In October 1918, the First World War is still not over. Luise, a 25-year-old woman, lives on a farm in Alsace, a German territory for 50 years. A French woman and the German soldier chasing her burst into her home. Hélène is fleeing to the Netherlands and allegedly injured this soldier for a mysterious reason. Hermann will impose himself on the farm even if it makes him a deserter. Luise hosts them at her own risk.
3. On the Fringe by Juan Diego Botto
The director offers us a thrilling social thriller with Penélope Cruz as ‘Azucena’, unjustly threatened with eviction. In a race against time, Rafa, a lawyer with strong social convictions, encounters this woman who is trying by all means to get by. She tries to ignite a citizen revolt while Rafa has until midnight to find the mother of a girl left in a squalid Madrid apartment. These two struggling individuals race against time in a city on fire.
4. Insidious: The Red Door by Patrick Wilson
The Insidious franchise returns for a fifth installment directed this time by Patrick Wilson. The American actor reprises his role as Josh Lambert. Ten years after the last events, the family man drives his son Dalton to the east of the country for his university start. However, it seems their demons have not truly left them. They will have to dive deeper into the Further to confront their family’s dark past and a host of ever more unsettling spirits lurking behind the Red Door. A horror film restricted to audiences 12 and older.
5. Miraculous, The Movie by Jeremy Zag
The masked superheroine beloved by children worldwide embarks on her first big-screen adventure. Ladybug teams up with Chat Noir, a masked vigilante whose identity she doesn’t know. Together, they face off against The Butterfly and his horde of supervillains trying to destroy Paris. This battle will be an opportunity for Marinette to get closer to her partner, who is none other than her classmate she’s in love with. An animated film accessible from the age of 6.
