New week, new films on display. From the highly anticipated Ocean's 8, to How to Kill Your Mother or Midnight Sun, this Wednesday's cinema releases vary and go through all genres, to please young and old. To your notebooks!
Ocean's 8
Crime comedy by Gary Ross, starring Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway.
Danny Ocean's sister, Debbie, brings together the talents of a team of scam pros to steal a necklace estimated at $ 150 million during the popular Met Ball in New York and thus achieve the biggest coup ever orchestrated by the Ocean's.
Madame Fang
Documentary directed by Wang Bing.
Mindful journey
Synopsis : Mindfulness, which consists of bringing one's attention back to the present moment, is practiced throughout the world. For the first time, Max Pugh and Marc J. Francis captures the daily life and philosophy of life of the community of the village of Pruniers located in the southwest of the France. This initiatory journey follows in the footsteps of Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh and opens the doors of Mindfulness.
Simone Barbès or Virtue
Dramatic comedy directed by Marie-Claude Treilhou, with Noël Simsolo, Raymond Lefevre, Max Amyl.
Synopsis : The wanderings and encounters of a porn movie opener who meets a desperate man in a lesbian nightclub.
How to kill your mother
Daughters of Fire
Documentary directed by Stéphane Breton.
Synopsis : They are barely 20 years old and confronting the Islamic State in Syrian Kurdistan. In this part of the world where the man walks in front and the woman behind, the fact that they took up arms alongside their brothers is extraordinarily significant. Their colourful scarves, their calm and their courage have been around the world.
Pororoca, not a day passes
Drama directed by Constantin Popescu, with Bogdan Dumitrache, Iulia Lumanare, Costin Dogioiu.
Cristina and Tudor Ionescu are a happy family with their two children, Maria and Ilie. They are in their thirties, live in a beautiful apartment in the city. He works in a telephone company, she is an accountant. One Sunday morning, while Tudor was with the children at the park, Maria disappeared.
Sicilian Ghost Story
Thriller directed by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza, with Julia Jedlikowska, Gaetano Fernandez, Corinne Musallari.
Synopsis : In a Sicilian village on the edge of a forest, 13-year-old Giuseppe disappears. Luna, a classmate, refuses the disappearance of the boy she is in love with and tries to break the code of silence. To find him, at the risk of her own life, she tries to reach the dark world where her friend is imprisoned and to which the lake offers a mysterious way of access.
Midnight Sun
Drama directed by Scott Speer, starring Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Rob Riggle.
Synopsis : Katie Price, 17, is a teenager like the others, or almost. Under no circumstances can it be exposed to daylight, otherwise it will die. During the day, she composes and plays guitar, and observes the world from her room, including Charlie Reed, her neighbor…
Disobedience
Drama directed by Sebastián Lelio, starring Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Alessandro Nivola.
Synopsis : A young Orthodox Jewish woman returns home after her father's death. But her reappearance causes some tension within the community when she confesses to her best friend the feelings she has towards him…
3 days in Quiberon
Drama directed by Emily Atef, starring Marie Bäumer, Birgit Minichmayr, Charly Hübner
Synopsis : 1981. For an exceptional and unprecedented interview on her entire career, Romy Schneider agrees to spend a few days with photographer Robert Lebeck and journalist Michael Jürgs, from the German magazine "Stern" during her treatment in Quiberon.
Heredity
Horror-horror directed by Ari Aster, with Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff.
When Ellen, matriarch of the Graham family, dies, her family discovers increasingly terrifying secrets about her lineage. A sinister heredity from which it seems impossible to escape.
The Guernsey Literary Circle
Drama directed by Mike Newell, starring Lily James, Michiel Huisman, Matthew Goode.
Synopsis : On the island of Guernsey, during the Second World War, the daily life of a few eccentrics who team up to form a literary club.