Nice Premium continues to guide you this Wednesday in the dark rooms with the selection of this week’s releases.
1. Bolero by Anne Fontaine
The story takes place in 1928, as Paris lives to the rhythm of the Roaring Twenties. The dancer Ida Rubinstein commissions Maurice Ravel for the music of her next ballet. Paralyzed and suffering from a lack of inspiration, the composer flips through the pages of his life — the failures of his early days, the fracture of the Great War, the impossible love he feels for his muse Misia Sert… Ravel then dives deep within himself to create his universal work, the Bolero.
2. The Notebooks of Siegfried by Terence Davies
This time we meet in 1914, the young Siegfried Sassoon, an aspiring poet, is enlisted in the British army. Returning from the front, revolted by what he has seen, he becomes a conscientious objector. His pacifist pamphlets earn him ostracism from his superiors, but also a form of artistic recognition, opening the doors to a new social life for him. But in this society of appearances, Siegfried gets lost, torn between the dictates of conformity and his desires for freedom.
3. The Life of My Mother by Julien Carpentier
Pierre, 33 years old, a successful florist, sees his life overturned when his mother, Judith, whimsical and excessive, bursts into his life after two years without seeing each other. Pierre has only one idea in mind, to resume the normal course of his life, but nothing goes as planned. Their reunion, as unexpected as it is explosive, will transform Pierre and Judith forever.
4. Like a Son by Nicolas Boukhrief
Jacques Romand is a teacher who has lost his vocation. As a witness to an assault in a local grocery store, he enables the arrest of one of the thieves: Victor, 14 years old. But upon discovering the fate of this unschooled boy forced to steal to survive, Jacques will go to great lengths to help this youngster set on such a wrong path. Even if it means confronting those who exploit him. By fighting against Victor’s own reluctance to try to offer him a better future, Jacques will change his own destiny…
5. The Teachers’ Lounge by İlker Çatak
Carla, a teacher at a middle school, watches helplessly during the interrogation of two students, whom a teacher asks to point out who might have stolen a sum of money. A few days later, noticing other thefts, she decides to leave her computer’s webcam on, in order to conduct an investigation to find out who this notorious thief is.
