Wednesday means cinema. Today, we present to you our selection of films for the week, to guide you through the theaters.
1. The Boy and the Heron by Hayao Miyazaki
The new film by the master of Japanese animation and co-founder of Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, tells the story of Mahito, a young grieving boy who tries to cope with his new life after losing his mother in a fire caused by bombings during World War II. At the age of 11, he must leave Tokyo to live in the countryside in the village where she grew up. He moves with his father into an old mansion located on a vast estate where he encounters a not-so-ordinary bird. This grey heron gradually becomes his guide…
2. Flo by Géraldine Danon
With Flo, Géraldine Danon dedicates her first film to her friend, the navigator Florence Arthaud. Nicknamed the little fiancée of the Atlantic, this biopic traces the destiny of this woman, from her car accident in which she could have lost her life to her sporting achievements, including her decisive encounter with the sea. Driven by a desire for freedom stronger than anything, she leaves her bourgeois background and the life path predetermined for her to chase her dream. She fights to make her place in an exclusively male world, accumulating victories up to her historic triumph, her victory in the Route du Rhum in 1990.
3. The Theorem of Marguerite by Anna Novion
Marguerite is a student-researcher in her final year of mathematics at the École normale supérieure (ENS). Brilliant and somewhat obsessional, she lives through numbers and formulas, isolated from her male peers. As she prepares to present her thesis, which proposes a solution to the Goldbach conjecture, to a panel of experts, everything falls apart. An error invalidates her reasoning. She leaves everything, abandons her thesis, her years of study, and tries hard to distance herself from mathematics, to break away from her passion that is an actual addiction.
4. Completely Burned Out! by Gilles Legardinier
This touching comedy follows the arrival of Andrew Blake, a widowed and inconsolable Londoner, in a mansion in France. In a last rush of life, he decides to leave everything behind to return to the estate where he first met his wife. To stay there, he gets a job as a butler for the family residing there, a curious family with eccentric characters, all as lost as he is. His journey toward the memories of a past life turns out to be very different from what he expected.
5. The Kidnapping by Marco Bellocchio
This story, inspired by true events, immerses us in 19th-century Italy and recounts the Mortara affair. In 1852, in Bologna, Edgardo Mortara is one year old and lives in a Jewish family. In the utmost secrecy, the family’s nurse, worried about Edgardo’s health as he was seriously ill, has the little boy baptized. Five years later, soldiers of Pope Pius IX knock at their door and snatch Edgardo from his family. Converted to Catholicism since receiving the sacrament of baptism, he is to receive a religious education within the Church in a seminary designed for the conversion of Jews and Muslims. The battle begins for his parents, who will do everything to reclaim their son.
