When it’s Wednesday, it’s cinema. Today, we present to you our selection of films for the week, to guide you through the dark theaters.
1. Les Condés – Nordine Salhi and Ryad Luc Montel
Nordine Salhi and Ryad Luc Montel deliver a wacky comedy with Les Condés. They share the screen with Ichem Bougheraba and Arriles Amrani. Amidst mix-ups and absurd situations, this comedy promises lots of laughs.
In Marseille, the National Police can’t manage anymore! The Minister of the Interior decides to create a squad of super cops with super salaries to motivate the best candidates. The next day, an endless line of improbable profiles forms outside the city’s police stations. Among the selected applicants are a liar, someone in debt, a conspiracy theorist, a wannabe rapper, and a racist. What if these future officers became the best hope for the Police Academy?
2. Reading Lolita in Tehran – Eran Riklis
Director Eran Riklis adapts the bestseller by Azar Nafisi with Reading Lolita in Tehran. A poignant drama starring Golshifteh Farahani, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, and Mina Kavani. An ode to the power of literature and female resistance.
Azar Nafisi, a professor at the University of Tehran, secretly gathers seven of her students to read classic Western literature banned by the regime. While fundamentalists hold power, these women meet, remove their veils, and discuss their hopes, loves, and place in an increasingly oppressive society. For them, reading Lolita in Tehran is a celebration of the liberating power of literature.
3. Novocaine – Dan Berk and Robert Olsen
Dan Berk and Robert Olsen offer us Novocaine, a thrilling action thriller featuring Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder, and Ray Nicholson. With intense action scenes and suspense, this film keeps you gripped until the last minute.
When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, Nate, an ordinary man, turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to find her.
4. 100 Million – Nath Dumont
Nath Dumont directs 100 Million, a comedy starring Kad Merad, Michèle Laroque, and Martin Karmann. With dreams of grandeur and quirky situations, the film humorously explores the upheavals such a sum can cause in a life.
Patrick, a worker in a printing company, is a veteran of the struggle against the bosses. A respected union leader, a maestro of picket lines, and a champion of worker solidarity against the excessively wealthy. But Patrick has just inherited one hundred million… For everyone – his wife Suzanne, his children, and even his colleagues – it’s an unexpected opportunity to change their lives. Everyone… except Patrick, now a multimillionaire unionist, who has no intention of disrupting his routine, let alone abandoning his ideals…
5. The Go Player – Kazuya Shiraishi
Under the direction of Kazuya Shiraishi, The Go Player is a historical drama featuring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Kaya Kiyohara, and Taishi Nakagawa. Adapted from Shan Sa’s novel, the film is set in occupied Manchuria and tells the forbidden love story between a young Chinese go enthusiast and a Japanese soldier. A poignant tale of war and strategy.
A former samurai, Yanagida leads a modest life with his daughter in Edo and dedicates his days to the game of go with a dignity that commands respect. When his honor is tarnished by slanderous accusations, he decides to use his strategic talents to fight back and seek reparation…