Every Wednesday, find our selection of the five most anticipated cinema releases of the week. A selection of must-see films to discover now in theaters.
1. Backrooms
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
Director: Kane Parsons
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass
Synopsis: A strange door appears in the basement of a furniture store.
2. Toy Story 5
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Directors: Andrew Stanton, McKenna Harris
Cast: Jean-Philippe Puymartin, Tom Hanks, Richard Darbois
Synopsis: Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang will have their work questioned when they discover that what obsesses today’s children is called…electronics! (From age 6).
3. Become Brilliant
Genre: Comedy
Director: Léo Grandperret
Cast: Manu Payet, Melha Bedia, Marie-Julie Baup
Synopsis: Mathias is a teacher and has finally obtained his transfer to his daughter’s school. Yet barely arrived, he is told that his German class will close due to lack of enrollment. He then decides to organize a trip to Germany to motivate teenagers to choose the language and to finance it, he calls on Iris, the local twinning committee representative. The catch is that Mathias is a Spanish teacher. Between a Mathias who doesn’t speak a word of German, suffering teenagers and an irrational Iris, the school trip will take on the appearance of gigantic chaos. Yet nothing will be able to prevent him from becoming the father his daughter no longer expects…and to achieve his goals, he will have to become brilliant!
4. Shana
Genre: Comedy-Drama
Director: Lila Pinell
Cast: Eva Huault, Noémie Lvovsky, Inès Gherib
Synopsis: Shana navigates the daily struggles with overflowing energy and the support of her group of girlfriends. When her grandmother passes away, she inherits a ring meant to protect against the evil eye.
5. Ulysses
Genre: Comedy-Drama
Director: Laetitia Masson
Cast: Élodie Bouchez, Alphonse Roberts, Stanislas Merhar
Synopsis: Alice, a sociology researcher, discovers she is pregnant. Luc, her husband, is overjoyed. It will be a boy! They will call him Ulysses. Except that at one year old, Ulysses doesn’t fit the curves. Too small, too thin. Pediatricians are puzzled and the verdict comes in: genetic syndrome. Ulysses will not be like the others. But what will he be like? A mystery. Then begins Ulysses’ very peculiar odyssey: walking, speaking, learning, understanding, thriving. Alice embarks on the adventure, determined to help Ulysses find his place in the world.
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