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Left-Handed Girl

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Credits

Original title :
Zuopiezi nuhai
Country :
Taiwan-France
Year :
2025
Director :
Shih-Ching Tsou 
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
108 minutes
Format :
digital 
Actors :
Janel Tsai, Shih-Yuan Ma, Nina Ye
Awards :
Festival de Cannes 2025

synopsis

A single mother and her two daughters relocate to Taipei to open a night market stall, each navigating the challenges of adapting to their new environment while striving to maintain family unity.

"Left-Handed Girl" is an assured and lovely portrait of difficult motherhood and painful daughterhood, but it’s perhaps most entrancing for its turning kaleidoscope-view of the director’s native city, where the characters are the bouncing beads, but Taipei is the glitter and the dazzle.

Variety

Left-Handed Girl

It’s one of those films where the stakes don’t appear that high, yet we become so attached to this family and their survival it will all matter a great deal.

The Spectator

More than 20 years after co-directing Take Out with Sean Baker, Tsou, who has produced many of the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s projects, returns behind the camera to helm a modest and entertaining story about three generations of women making their way in contemporary Taipei. The strengths of this slender film, which Tsou co-wrote with Baker, stem from its authentic rendition of daily life in a bustling metropolis.

The Hollywood Reporter

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Xavier Dolan

Laurence Anyways

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Credits

Country :
Canada-France 
Year :
2012
Director :
Xavier Dolan
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
168 minutes
Format :
digital 
Actors :
Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Nathalie Baye
Awards :
Queer Palm & Prix d’interprétation feminine ≪ Un certain regard ≫ (Clément), Cannes 2012
Age classification :
6+

synopsis

In the early 1990s, Laurence, a literature teacher, reveals to his partner Fred his desire to live as a woman, profoundly disrupting their relationship.

Laurence Anyways

Il y a une double détente dans le cinéma faussement superficiel de Dolan : un style tapageur et une distance ironique forment un voisinage heurté et tout en ruptures. Ses films ressemblent à une bouche bavant de rouge à lèvres, d’ou jailliraient des vérités cruelles sur l’amour, les sentiments, la difficulté de vivre.

Cahiers du cinéma

It takes cojones for a filmmaker to chase Fassbinder’s ghost, but it takes heart and talent to damn near catch up with it.

Slant Magazine

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Why We Love Cinema

The Sound of Music

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1965
Director :
Robert Wise
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
174 minutes
Format :
digital | Nouvelle restauration
Actors :
Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker
Awards :
5 wins including Best Picture, Oscars 1966
Age classification :
EA

synopsis

A cheerful, music-loving young governess arrives at the home of a stern widower to care for his seven children. Gradually, she transforms the household with her joy and love of music, winning the father’s heart and bringing a renewed sense of life and happiness to the family.

The Sound of Music

Le moindre plan est soigné à l’extrême, qu’il s’agisse de la lumière ou du cadre, le montage est fluide, les chansons ne sont pas plaquées sur l’action, bien au contraire, elles en font partie intégrante. Les comédiens sont dirigés avec beaucoup de doigté. Julie Andrews ‘est’ Maria, d’une fraîcheur de tous les instants. Mais la palme revient à Christopher Plummer, acteur shakespearien qui redoutait de casser son image en acceptant de figurer dans cette patisserie, et qui, par son jeu bourré d’humour, apporte énormément au personnage du capitaine von Trapp et à l’ensemble du film.

aVoir-aLire.com

The 20th-Fox release will be one of the movies’ all-time hits, one of the all-time great pictures. It restores your faith in movies. If you sit quietly and let it take, it may also restore your faith in humanity. It does this with infectious wit, with consistent gaiety, with simple and realistic spirituality, with romance of heartbreak and heartmend. This is set against the most beautiful scenery you have seen in your life. "The Sound of Music" is quite a picture.

The Hollywood Reporter

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La Tour de Glace

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Credits

Country :
 France-Allemagne 
Year :
2025
Director :
 Lucile Hadzihalilovic 
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
118 minutes
Format :
vostEN | digital
Actors :
Marion Cotillard, Clara Pacini, August Diehl
Awards :
Silver Bear, Berlinale 2025

synopsis

1970s. Jeanne runs away from her mountain home to make her way to the city. In the studio where she has taken refuge, the young girl falls under the spell of Cristina, the enigmatic star of The Snow Queen, her favorite fairy tale. A troubling relationship develops between the actress and the young girl.

Le merveilleux dans lequel baigne le film, inspiré par les premières images de cinéma et la force cristalline du muet, orchestre une sorte de ballet magnetique où le magique et les artifices plongent Jeanne et les spectateurs dans un état de trouble des perceptions. Il y a du Méliès et du Cocteau dans cette oeuvre dont la beauté réside dans la désarticulation du réel.

La Septième Obsession

La Tour de Glace

"The Ice Tower" is as fragile and delicate as a snowflake, as disorientating and mysterious as adolescence, and as dark as a winter’s night.

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Sense & Sensibility

In the Mood for Love

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Credits

Original title :
Fa yeung nin wah
Country :
Hong Kong
Year :
2000
Director :
Wong Kar Wai 
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
99 minutes
Format :
digital | 4K Restoration
Actors :
Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung
Awards :
Meilleure interprétation masculine (Leung), Prix de la Commission Superieure Technique ; Cannes 2000

synopsis

Hong Kong, 1962. Mrs. Chan rents a room. On the same day, on the same floor, Mr. Chow moves in. Their spouses are often absent. One day, Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan discover that their respective spouses are having an affair…

Excites us with words not spoken, passions not played out. A mood story more than a love story, it’s all about sustaining a state of exquisite melancholy in the face of desire.

Wall Street Journal

A ravishing evocation of an unconsummated romantic relationship put through an emotional and cultural ringer, a retread of sorts through Happy Together territory, this time without the kinetic patchwork of jarring film stocks that have become Wong trademarks since Chungking Express. Ravishing beyond mortal words.

Slant Magazine

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Afternoon Adventures

The Breakfast Club

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Credits

Country :
USA
Director :
John Hughes
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
97 minutes
Format :
digital | Nouvelle restauration
Actors :
Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy
Age classification :
12+ | Recommended from age 14 and up

synopsis

Five high school students with completely opposite personalities end up in detention on a Saturday afternoon. As the day goes on, they talk, clash, and eventually discover more in common than they expected.

John Hughes, auteur de "Sixteen Candles" ou "Weird Science", restera éternellement le Bourdieu du teen movie. Et pour certains d’entre nous, éternellement John, qui traverse un stade de foot désert, le poing levé sur Simple Minds…

Télérama

From the neon-sign opening titles to the derivative angst of the dialogue, it’s a touchstone of ‘80s pop culture, and a schizophrenic one, too.

Entertainment Weekly

The Breakfast Club

Rarely have on-screen teens felt this authentic. They bluster, bicker and trade horrible insults, then suddenly expose their most guarded feelings.

Newsday

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Cult Fiction

Blade Runner: The Final Cut

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Credits

Country :
USA 
Year :
1982
Director :
Ridley Scott 
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
117 minutes
Format :
digital | 4K DCP 
Actors :
Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah
Awards :
Nominee Best Art Direction, Best Visual Effects; Oscars 1983
Age classification :
EA

synopsis

In a dystopian Los Angeles, former police officer Rick Deckard is reactivated to hunt and eliminate “replicants,” androids almost indistinguishable from humans who have rebelled and fled to Earth. During his pursuit, Deckard meets Rachel, a replicant with implanted memories, and a complex relationship develops between them.

Dans cette version restaurée et finalisée par Ridley Scott, la vision originale du realisateur est pleinement assumée après des décennies de montages divergents. Cette édition est presentée comme la version ‘définitive’ du film, débarrassée des modifications imposées à la sortie initiale, ce qui permet de retrouver l’atmosphère intense et mélancolique voulue par Scott.

Télérama

The best reason to seek out "The Final Cut" on the biggest screen you can find, is the near miraculously improved quality of the print. Scanned frame by frame at ultra-high resolutions, the film looks utterly stunning. From Scott and ‘visual futurist’ Syd Mead’s tiny details, such as the funky novelty umbrellas with their neon stems, to jaw-dropping vistas like the opening, firebelching cityscape, it remains an unparalleled visual achievement.

Empire

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Great Restorations

Werckmeister Harmonies

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Credits

Original title :
Werckmeister harmóniák
Country :
Hongrie-Italie-Allemagne
Year :
2000
Director :
Bela Tarr, Agnes Hranitzky
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
145 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Lars Rudolph, Hanna Schygulla, Peter Fitz, Janos Derzsi
🗣️ 18:30 : Introduction to the film (in English) | 18:45 : start of the film
In memoriam Béla Tarr

synopsis

In the Hungarian lowlands, during Communist times, a town is unsettled by the arrival of a strange traveling circus. It attracts the interest of the inhabitants who line up by the hundreds to see the main attraction: a stuffed whale hiding a mysterious prince.

Viewers should allow themselves to fully confront the terrifying ‘unresolvability’ of the film’s central theme: the immortal endlessness of the universe in relation to human finitude. Don’t miss this opportunity to see a film that exploits the big screen to an absolute extreme.

Cine-file

Werckmeister Harmonies

Tarr’s precise yet effortless command of the long take is so transcendent as to suggest the presence of God. Every stoppage point within each shot becomes a heavenly composite of the film’s collective whole.

Slant Magazine

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Julian

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Credits

Country :
Belgique
Year :
2025
Director :
Cato Kusters
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
87 minutes
Format :
digital 
Actors :
Nina Meurisse, Laurence Roothooft, David Coburn
Awards :
5 wins including Best Film & Best Director, Flemish Film Awards 2026
📕 Based on the book by Fleur Pierets
In collaboration with queer loox | Introduction to the film by Hélène Walland (in English)

synopsis

Fleur and Julian fall madly in love and decide to get married in all countries where they, as two women, are allowed to do so. After only four marriages, their journey comes to a painful and unexpected halt.

 

By way of her first feature film, "Julian", young Flemish director Cato Kusters delivers a sensitive and fast-paced portrait of love. Two wholly committed actresses were required to carry this larger-than-life love story, and this is defintely the case for Nina Meurisse (who won a Cesar for Souleymane’s Story) and Laurence Roothooft.

Cineuropa

Julian

Cato Kusters proves to be a born storyteller, whispering to us an intimate tale that feels both personal and universal.

Film Fest Ghent

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Xavier Dolan

Matthias & Maxime

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Credits

Country :
Canada
Year :
2019
Director :
Xavier Dolan
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
119 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas, Xavier Dolan, Pier-Luc Funk, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Anne Dorval
Awards :
Sélection officielle, Cannes 2019
Age classification :
12+

synopsis

Two childhood friends share a kiss for the purposes of an amateur short film. After this seemingly harmless kiss, a recurring doubt takes hold, forcing the two boys to confront their desires, unsettling the balance of their social circle and, soon, their lives.

Le trouble vient de là. Et le vertige du film. Son coup de foudre fait d’attente et de suspension, de silence et de déni, ces deux amants qui crèvent de désir, et meurent doucement de ne pas se toucher. "Matthias & Maxime" a l’étoffe des histoires d’amour impossibles sur le papier qui ont le pouvoir de s’incarner en nous.

Les Inrockuptibles

Matthias et Maxime

A relatively subtle yet moving entry into the Dolanverse, where explosive love is sublimated beneath the ebb and flow of friendship rhythms, and characters are revealed in tender observational details.

Empire

As ever, Dolan’s creative motor runs on dialogue: people talking, talking, talking. Sex is the one thing that stops the flow. He gets his camera intimately close to his actors’ faces: a wide shot, or a thoughtful tableau, is relatively rare. His movies, for me, have become increasingly watchable, accessible and enjoyable because the feelings involved are increasingly real and deeply felt. There is such tenderness and gentleness in this film.

The Guardian

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