The Mystery of Henri Pick , a comedy by Rémi Bezançon, 1h40

On the peninsula of Crozon, in Brittany, a young editor (Alice Isaaz) discovers a manuscript she believes to be a masterpiece. It would have been written by a certain Henri Pick, a pizzaiolo (pizza maker) has been dead for two years. Published, the book sells like hotcakes. But Jean-Michel Rouche (Fabrice Luchini), a famous television host has questioned the identity of the alleged perpetrator, and begins to investigate. Visibly happy to be a brilliant man of letters, the comedian gives heart to joy. Replicas abound like ping-pong balls, the situations are linked together merrily, the protagonists rush freely in open channels to all the guesswork.

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Rebel , a comedy of Allan Mauduit, 1h27

Sandra (Cécile de France) has just left her husband who beat her. She returns to live with his mother (Béatrice Agenin) in Boulogne-sur-Mer. Find a job in the factory of canned fish and girlfriends, Nadine (Yolande Moreau) and Marilyn (Audrey Lamy, a former school of hairdressing). The former Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais fits as well as could be to his new environment until a time when its leader tries to rape her. It kills unintentionally. The filmmaker, a fan of Billy Wilder and a follower of black humour, irreverent, fed to the spaghetti western wanted to make a film that looks like him. Wish granted, his comedy corrosive and hilarious received the crystal globe of the press at the 22nd Festival of the Alpe d’huez.

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Captain Marvel , the action of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, 2h04.

coming out of Captain Marvel, the new story of origin passed, signed by the studio Marvel, featuring a super-heroine believable and touching (impeccable Brie Larson), a verse of the poem ignited by Walt Whitman returns to memory: “O captain! my captain!” It resonates as a rallying cry to engage this Captain Marvel… to do wonders, waiting for his reappearance next in Avengers: Endgame .

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Mary Stuart, queen of Scotland , a historical movie of Josie Rourke, 2h04

When Mary Stuart returns to the country in the year 1561, the teeth that line the floor of the power of the scottish squeak. With its all-star roster of ladies of the company brought from France, the young widow figure, a queen of the amazons advancing in hostile terrain. Actress Saoirse Ronan lends her face to the martyrdom of scotland. The director Josie Rourke quotes on the envi a biography that intends to rehabilitate the figure of Mary Stuart far away from the gossip of the story. The ardent scottish, the filmmaker contrasts the cold Elizabeth embodied by Margot Robbie, but she brings them together in this figure of the monarch, sacrificing, necessarily, a life of woman. A film in the air time and quite well analyzed.

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Ralph 2.0 , an animated film Rich Moore and Phil Johnston, 1h53

The following signed Rich Moore and Phil Johnson’s wreck-it Ralph plunges the heroes of video games Ralph and Vanellope in the internet world. In his quest for recognition, the character he had become friends with the fearless racing driver. Six years later, the two friends are at the centre of the second pane. In the arcade, the driving of the terminal of Sugar Rush has been broken and the future of the game is threatened. To facilitate its repair, Ralph and Vanellope go explore the web to try to buy the replacement part. The hero is gruff and her best friend are thrown into the world of the internet. This sequel to wreck-it Ralph (2012) reconciles with the Canvas. Lively, touching and pleasant.

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special transport , a comedy from Bertrand Blier, 1h22

Gérard Depardieu is pushing a supermarket shopping in a gigantic traffic jam. It falls on Christian clavier in overcoat with fur collar. It is a party. They do not know themselves: they don’t get to leave. In the streets a bit empty of a Brussels-glossy, night, surreal, disturbing, Foster and Taupin zigzag at the discretion of a scenario, which gives the pages as you go. Depardieu tasted the Blier as if he was tasting a grand cru. Keyboard slides in a universe that has the air of belonging to him of right. There is music in this film pull-out that resembles nothing, which revives the verve desperate cold Buffet.

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Schindler’s List, drama of Steven Spielberg, a time of 3.17

sensitive Souls, prepare tissues. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Schindler’s List , the film was released in 1993, stands out in the movie theaters. Shot in black and white, the film is part of the classic film about the Holocaust. Steven Spielberg tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist, a member of the nazi party, who saved over a thousand Polish jews from death camps by engaging them in its factories. Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ben Kinglsley in the book jewish dedicated and Ralph Fiennes, transformed into a nazi officer sadistic and extreme cruelty, each provide remarkable performance. The masterpiece of the director of jaws , like to remind everyone, the importance of the duty of memory, in a context where anti-semitic acts are increasing in France.

Vice , a biopic of Adam McKay, 2h12

At the start, there was one student irresponsible that takes cooked terrible, and fight with strangers. This does not mean you fail twice at Yale is the better method to finish american vice-president. Such, however, is the fate of Dick Cheney in which Adam McKay is attached like a dog biting the calf of the factor. The american dream has no limits. He’s only behind the scenes. The director, who had managed to make hilarious the story of subprime mortgages in The Big Short , reveals that with a jubilation communicative and rabid.

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Thanks to God , drama, François Ozon, 2: 17.

the father of A catholic family who have been touched in his childhood discovers that the priest who had traumatized is always in exercise. The new chokes. Cardinal Barbarin hasgite arms, pushing of sighs, slips of the tongue unhappy. The father Preynat has never denied his actions. How to keep the faith in such a situation? The diocese of the mouth to the ears. The case is in trial. It is necessary to congratulate François Ozon to have dark. He’s been doing it with a seriousness, a modesty, an energy that demands respect. The one that we were not always accustomed to such rigor, directs with a steady hand this world, whose members are losing their latin. It is ours. It is good that the cinema is the mirror.

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the Song of The wolf , the drama of Antonin Baudry, 1.55pm

It is called the Golden Ear. On board a nuclear submarine is French, he is listening. Chanteraide (François Civil) is able to distinguish the sneeze of an orc snoring of an octopus. It is mostly there to try to recognize buildings and submarines friends and enemies. The stars may be high-graded (Mathieu Kassovitz, Omar Sy, Reda Kateb), they are nothing without the ear fine Chanteraide. Behind The Song of the wolf, there is Antonin Baudry, filmmaker beginner discovered in 2010 under the pseudonym Abel Lanzac. The former advisor to Dominique de Villepin, a diplomat, and writer of the Quai d’orsay, demonstrates the power of a film of cinema in the closed claustrophobique. The suspense will go crescendo, without a deluge of pyrotechnics. There is more adrenaline here in two hours mission in a whole season of Office of the legends .

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Stan & Ollie , a comedy-drama by Jon S. Baird, 1h37

Stan & Ollie traces the uk tour that Laurel and Hardy did in 1953. While the world imagined that the two comics had retired. Glasgow, Newcastle, with London as their final destination: the rooms are half-empty, or filled to 50 %? The film can be read as a love letter to the cinema in black and white, to evoke a reflection on stardom. The two actors, Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly, delivered in a mimicry confusing, without lapsing into caricature.

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Favorite , a historical drama by Yorgos Lanthimos, 2h

In his palace, the queen Anne, the last Stuart, and broods his depression and loneliness. Fortunately, Lady Marlborough, her confidante, advises. This lady company takes its role seriously. Abigail arrived all muddy, a menial job will be enough for him. You must be naive to imagine that the girl will just rub the soil. The director of Greek Yorgos Lanthimos shows of heroines with long teeth, wild, pushy, manipulative peerless. They grow their mistress in a wheelchair, her massage of the legs that it was swollen, misshapen, waiting for a look, hoping for a kiss. Not a moment of respite. The intelligence and the pessimism burn the film.

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