Kiyokazu Kurihara and Satoko are a married couple. They do not have children. They learn about plenary adoption and adopt a baby son. 6 years later, the couple live happily with their son Asato. They receive a phone call from a woman, who introduces herself as Hikari Katakura. She is Asato’s birth mother…
There are few films that explore motherhood in such a serious, solid, beautiful way, far from judgements. Kawase takes the film in surprising directions, but her narrative and her naturalistic, engrossing style never loses emotional focus. The story may be a familiar one, but this Cannes-honored director lets it unfold with rare tenderness and mystery.

On a gray, foggy morning outside a large Polish city, Zhenia (Alec Utgoff), a masseur from the East, enters the lives of the wealthy residents of a gated community. Using hypnotic, almost magical techniques to get a residence permit, he starts working. The well-to-do residents in their cookie-cutter homes seemingly have it all, but they all suffer from an inner sadness, some unexplained longing. The attractive and mysterious newcomer’s hands heal, and Zhenia’s eyes seem to penetrate their souls. To them, his Russian accent sounds like a song from the past, a memory of their seemingly safer childhoods. The latest from writer/director Malgorzata Szumowska (Elles, In the Name of) and her longtime collaborator Michal Englert is an unclassifiable meditation on class, immigration, and global warming with touches of magical realism and moments of sober beauty and subtle humor.

A look into the life of Laurent Garnier, one of the pioneers of house music, from his emergence on the music scene in the 80’s to now.

In the film, the tour footage and interviews are interspersed with archival footage that provides a flashback to the late ’80s, when the techno scene was emerging in Detroit and England, in clubs like Manchester’s Hacienda, where Garnier started his DJing journey, and then Rex, a club in Paris, where Garnier moved to next. The film also includes the political and judicial response to rave culture, which in some countries was met with police brutality. “We’re not where we are today without a fight,” Garnier said.

When Garnier set off on his 2018/2019 world tour, Rivoire traveled with him, taking in performances in front of 15,000 people at Sónar Festival in Barcelona, Bassiani, a mecca for techno in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, and crowded clubs in Tokyo. Rivoire also filmed interviews with other dance music pioneers, such as Carl Cox, Pedro Winter, Seth Troxler, Jeff Mills and Derrick May.

the new proposal of the week is a comedy! So you will no longer say that the boring and whining ones of Detour hit you first with unsustainable cinematic boulders, and then annihilate you with the blows of desperate human tragedies or global catastrophes in which the happy-end is banned by statute. Certainly the definition of comedy in our part is slippery, dubious, sometimes fueled by a sense of the grotesque and black humor, sometimes by the most ruthless social satire, in which a melancholy and bewildered condition of existence merges with a tragicomic vision of humanity…