Who says Wednesday says cinema. Today we offer you our selection of films for the week, to best guide you in the dark rooms.
1. Ballerina – Len Wiseman
Spin-off from the John Wick universe, this highly anticipated film features Ana de Armas as a dancer turned hitwoman, seeking revenge. Precise gunfights, violent choreography, and cameos from Keanu Reeves: a great spectacle.
The relentless revenge of Eve Macarro, the new hitwoman of the Ruska Roma organization.
2. The Answering Machine – Fabienne Godet
A tender and absurd comedy about modern loneliness, this film depicts a young man who falls in love… with the voice of a stranger on an answering machine. Salif Cissé shows an unexpected burlesque charm.
Baptiste, a talented impersonator, struggles to make a living from his art. One day, he is approached by Pierre Chozène, a famous but discreet novelist, constantly bothered by the incessant calls from his editor, his daughter, his ex-wife… Pierre, who needs peace to write his most ambitious text, then proposes to Baptiste to become his ‘answering machine’ by impersonating him on the phone… Gradually, he doesn’t just imitate the writer: he develops his character!
3. Freud’s Last Session – Matt Brown
In the role of the father of psychoanalysis, Anthony Hopkins impresses in this psychological closed-door drama based on the play by Mark St. Germain. An intense verbal confrontation between an aging Freud and a young Christian writer.
On the eve of World War II, Sigmund Freud has taken refuge in London, accompanied by his daughter Anna. Affected by age and illness, the world-renowned psychoanalyst has turned into a bitter and capricious old man. But the professor’s curiosity is piqued when a certain C.S. Lewis, a youth novels author, requests to meet him to debate about the existence of God.
4. Cloud – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
The Japanese master of the fantastic thriller returns with a stylized neo-noir film. Cloud mixes digital espionage, paranoia, and dark poetry, in a futuristic Tokyo where humanity seems dissolved in technology.
Ryosuke gives up everything to live from online resale. But soon, some threatening clients close in on him for reasons he cannot understand. His dream of independence shatters. In a hyper-connected Japan, escaping is impossible. Especially when you don’t know the rules of the game.
5. Fragments of a Love Story – Chloé Barreau
A gentle and intimate film where the director retraces her love stories through personal archives and testimonies from inspiring women. A universal story about desire, breakups, nostalgia.
Since she was 16, between Paris and Rome, Chloé has filmed her loves. Teenage crush, long-distance relationship, carnal passion… while living a story, she was already creating its memory. But what do these exes remember? What is their version of the story? 12 of them open up to reconstruct a sentimental journey as unique as it is universal.
