Filming anecdotes, notes of intent, information for moviegoers: every week, discover behind the scenes of cinema releases.
Dream Scenario by Kristoffer Borgli
With Nicolas Cage, Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera…
What is it about ? Paul Matthews, an ordinary professor, finds his life turned upside down when he begins to appear in the dreams of millions of people. Paul then becomes a sort of media phenomenon, but his newfound celebrity will quickly take an unexpected turn…
Did you know ? His father having been a professor, Nicolas Cage knew the academic world. “I knew how much competition, jealousy and malice could arise around those who publish or write the best papers. The academic community has a certain mentality that is often ‘kill or be killed’.”
5 hectares by Emilie Deleuze
With Lambert Wilson, Marina Hands, Laurent Poitrenaux…
What is it about ? What leads an established man to jeopardize his comfort, his career and his relationship? The passion, all the more burning because it is late, for five hectares of Limousin land. But the land is earned, especially when you come from the city. Here is Franck rushed into the quest for the Grail. He needs a tractor.
Did you know ? 5 hectares teaches us an astonishing point of law: in the countryside, when you work land, you become owner of it through use… This is a law that dates back to Roman law.
Kina & Yuk: foxes of the ice floe by Guillaume Maidatchevsky
With Virginie Efira
What is it about ? Kina and Yuk, a couple of polar foxes ready to start their family, live peacefully on the ice floe of the Far North. The temperature is abnormally mild and food increasingly scarce, forcing Yuk to venture further and further to meet their needs.
A matter of honor by Vincent Perez
With Roschdy Zem, Doria Tillier, Guillaume Gallienne…
What is it about ? Paris 1887. Clément Lacaze, charismatic fencing master finds himself caught in a spiral of destructive violence. He meets Marie-Rose Astié, a feminist ahead of her time, and decides to teach her the complex art of dueling. They will face provocations and join forces to defend their respective honor.
Did you know ? Through his research, Vincent Perez designed his hero: a former soldier, taciturn, quite austere, who embodies the idea of the nobility of the master of arms and who has a form of intangible purity. He specifies : “I imagined that, devastated by the debacle of 70 and the death of many of his friends, this man who had gone through the horror, would have become, in his own way, a sort of “Samurai”.”
The Innocence of Hirokazu Kore-eda
With Sakura Andô, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa…
What is it about ? Young Minato’s behavior is increasingly worrying. His mother, who has been raising him alone since the death of her husband, decides to confront the educational team at her son’s school. Everything seems to point to Minato’s teacher as responsible for the problems encountered by the young boy.
Did you know ? Innocence won the Screenplay Prize as well as the Queer Palm at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Hirokazu Kore-eda is a regular at the Croisette since several of his films have been presented or awarded there. This is the case of Nobody Knows (Male Actor Prize for Yûya Yagira in 2004), Like Father, Like Son (Jury Prize and special mention of the Ecumenical Jury Prize in 2013) and A Family Affair (Palme d’ gold in 2018).
Vermin by Sébastien Vaniček
With Théo Christine, Lisa Nyarko, Jérôme Niel…
What is it about ? Faced with an invasion of spiders, the inhabitants of a building will have to survive.
Did you know ? If there are many horror films featuring spiders (Tarantula, Arachnophobia, Arac Attack…), Vermines is the first French feature film with killer spiders.
The Segpa on skis by Ali Boughéraba, Hakim Boughéraba
With Ichem Bougheraba, Walid Ben Amar, Arriles Amrani…
What is it about ? The Segpa meet again for a new school year full of adventures, propelled directly into Terminale. Two major challenges await them: passing their baccalaureate and their sudden participation in the inter-high school Winter Olympics.
Did you know ? SEGPA on skis is the sequel to SEGPA, released in 2022, which attracted 700,000 spectators in theaters. The directors of the first part, Ali and Hakim Boughéraba, are once again behind the camera. The latter explains: “We had not at all imagined this success but the sequel was already written, at least its plot, with the mountain as a setting.”
My robot friend by Pablo Berger
What is it about ? DOG, lives in Manhattan and loneliness weighs on him. One day, he decides to build a robot and they become best friends! One summer night, DOG with great sadness is forced to abandon ROBOT on the beach. Will they see each other again one day?
Did you know ? With My Robot Friend, Pablo Berger makes his first animated film. However, this is not a wish dating back to his beginnings, even if it is a genre that he loves: “I consumed a lot of cartoons from my youth: Merry Melodies, Felix the Cat, Popeye, Betty Boop, and Hanna-Barbera productions… The house where I lived was next to a cinema where Disney and J I could hear the sound even in my room.”
This house by Miryam Charles
With Florence Blain Mbaye, Schelby Jean-Baptiste, Ève Duranceau…
What is it about ? Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanging in her bedroom. While everything suggests suicide, the autopsy report reveals other evidence.
Fear and Desire by Stanley Kubrick
With Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky, Kenneth Harp…
What is it about ? In an abstract war in an unknown land, a four-man military patrol, Lieutenant Corby, Sergeant Mac and two soldiers, Fletcher and Sidney, find themselves behind enemy lines after their plane crashes.
Did you know ? The Library of Congress in Washington, in association with the American publisher Kino Lorber, released a restored version of the feature film in 2012. Stanley Kubrick’s first feature film, Fear and Desire has undergone a complete overhaul and benefits from breathtaking image quality compared to the versions that have been circulating until now.