2023-10-27 23:00:00
Around a hundred films from the four corners of the French-speaking world are on the menu for the 29e edition of the Cinemania Festival, which will be held from 1is through November 12 in several Montreal cinemas. As every year, moviegoers will be able to premiere several of the most anticipated French-language feature films of the year. Here are seven not to be missed:
The Goldman Trial
Funfilm Distribution
Chosen to open the 29th edition of the festival, on November 1 at the Cinéma Impérial, this legal drama by French director Cédric Kahn (Family party) relates the second trial of Pierre Goldman, in 1975. This far-left activist was sentenced to life imprisonment for four robberies, one of which resulted in the death of two pharmacists.
Love and forests
AXIA FILMS
Presented in competition at the last Cannes Film FestivalLove and forestsnew film by French director Valérie Donzelli (War is declared), relates the descent into hell of a woman under the influence of a possessive and violent husband. Virginie Efira and Melvil Poupaud share the star of this psychological thriller.
The successor
Entract Films
Presented last month in official competition at the San Sebastian Festival in Spain, this new thriller by French filmmaker Xavier Legrand (To the hilt) stars Quebecer Marc-André Grondin as the artistic director of a French haute couture house who must return to Quebec to settle the estate of his father, who has just died of a heart attack. Yves Jacques, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Vincent Leclerc and Louis Champagne are also part of the cast.
Second tour
THE MOVIE
Three years later its delicious Goodbye idiotsFrench actor and director Albert Dupontel explores behind the scenes of politics in this new comedy which will be presented at the closing of the festival on November 12. Second tour features a disgraced journalist (played by Cécile de France) who receives the mandate to follow the favorite candidate in the presidential election (Dupontel), an heir to a powerful French family and a novice in politics.
A difficult year
SPHERE FILMS
The directors of the hit comedy Untouchables, Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, are back with this 8th feature film which echoes the current problems of contemporary society by tackling subjects such as over-indebtedness, eco-anxiety and over-consumption. In A difficult yeara comedy-drama, Pio Marmai and Jonathan Cohen play two over-indebted men who join a group of environmental activists.
Leave the night
ENTRACT FILMS
Quebec-Belgian director Delphine Girard won the Audience Award in the Giornate degli Autori parallel section of the Venice Film Festival with this first feature film which notably stars Quebec actress Anne Dorval. Presented in the “Films du Québec” competition, Leave the night recounts the journey of a young woman attacked by a man during a party that goes wrong.
You’ll never know
AXIA FILMS
Six years following the release of his zombie comedy The hungrydirector Robin Aubert changes register with this new film which features an old man at the end of his life locked in his CHSLD room who does everything possible to see the woman he loves one last time. You’ll never know is one of the eight feature films presented in the “Films du Québec” competition.
The 29th Cinemania French-speaking Film Festival will take place from November 1 to 12 in several Montreal cinemas, including the Cinéma Impérial, the Cinéma du Musée, the Cinéma du Parc and the Cinémathèque québécoise. For more details on the programming: festivalcinemania.com
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