Movies
You can see these 10 new movies in the theater starting this week
The following films are new to see in Dutch cinemas from this week.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
leader: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson | Cast: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Oscar Isaac, Jake M. Johnson | Our review
‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ takes Miles Morales, a friend from Brooklyn, across the multiverse. There, he must team up with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People against the toughest foe they’ve ever faced.
the bogeyman (2023)
leader: Rob Wild | Cast: Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, David Dastmalchian, Marin Ireland | Our review‘The Boogeyman’ tells the story of high school student Sadie Harper and her sister Sawyer as they come to terms with the recent death of their mother. Her father, Will, a therapist struggling with his own grief, barely supports his daughters in the grieving process. When a desperate patient shows up unannounced at his home seeking help, he leaves behind a terrifying supernatural entity that preys on families and preys on the suffering of its victims.
The (2022)
leader: Yannick Kergoat | Cast: Daniel Bertossa, Yves Bertossa, John Christensen, Antoine Deltour | Our reviewThe Cayman Islands, Panama, but also Switzerland, Luxembourg and certain US states have something in common: they are all tax havens for the rich. Whether in the vast fortunes of athletes, political leaders and celebrities, or in large corporations and multinationals, the means to disguise the billions generated by tax evasion are on the rise. Tax Me if You Can explains in an accessible way and with a touch of annoying irony how billions in tax dollars each year don’t end up with the government.
cesaria evora (2022)
leader: Ana Sofia Fonseca | Cast: Filipe Araujo, Mara Costa, Ana Sofia Fonseca, Ricardo Freitas | eleven recentWorld-renowned performer Cesária Évora in a new and intimate documentary. Using never-before-seen footage and insights into the singer’s life, the film follows the barefoot diva’s struggles and success. Her voice took her from poverty to stardom, but her true dream was to be free.
Pacification (2022)
leader: Albert Serra | Cast: Benoît Magimel, Pahoa Mahagafanau, Marc Susini, Matahi Pambrun | Onze ReviewAs High Commissioner of the French Republic, De Roller knows the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia like the back of his hand. Always dressed in a white suit, the charismatic politician moves with ease from a business meeting to a seedy nightclub and from a dance performance to a surfing competition. Whether he’s placating the locals or lobbying a priest, every encounter is a negotiation or a performance. However, his diplomatic talents are put to the test when a French nuclear test submarine is rumored to have been sighted off the island’s coast. Pacificction is a disturbing political thriller in which a cunning bureaucrat reaches the limit of his influence on an island paradise.
Mother and son (2022)
leader: Eleanor Serraille | Cast: Annabelle Lengronne, Stephane Bak, Kenzo Sambin, Ahmed Sylla | Our reviewIn the late 1980s, Rose, a single mother, moved from the Ivory Coast to the Parisian suburbs with her two young children. Her family shelters her and pressures her to marry a mutual acquaintance. But Rose, energetic and independent, prefers to choose her own path. Her children Jean and Ernest are the most important in her life. She encourages them to bring out the best in themselves. However, she regularly disappears from her life.
three nights a week (2022)
leader: Florent Gouelou | Cast: Pablo Pauly, Romain Eck, Hafsia Herzi, Harald Marlot | Our reviewBaptiste, 29, is in a relationship with Samia when he meets Cookie Kunty, a young drag queen from the Parisian nightlife. Motivated by the idea of a photographic project with her, he plunges into a world unknown to him and meets Quentin, the young man behind this drag queen.
umami (2022)
leader: Salty Owl | Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Kyozo Nagatsuka, Pierre Richard, Rod Paradot | Our reviewGabriel Carvin, played by Gérard Depardieu, receives his third Michelin star as France’s leading chef. While other chefs would be deliriously happy, Gabriel is very unhappy after winning. Desperate, Gabriel resorts to hypnosis, causing him to suddenly remember a loss in a culinary competition from long ago. That is the reason for him to seek happiness, himself and the unique taste of umami. Umami is a tasty and culinary quest.
petit evil (2022)
leader: Ruth Caudeli | Cast: Silvia Varón, Ruth Caudeli, Ana María OtáloraMartina, Laia and Anto have a threesome relationship full of passion, love and joy. Filled with backyard barbecues, endless banter, and enough dogs to take up the remaining space on their double-wide king-size bed, their relationship is put to the test when Laia is called in for a long-term project…
Chew (2023)
leader: Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken | Cast: Alfred Ekker Strande, Mattis Herman Nyquist, Ola G. Furuseth, Anne KrigsvollEdvard Munch was one of the greatest expressionist artists and has become world famous for his iconic work The Scream. In this captivating film we follow him through four important periods of his life, from the somewhat naive and impetuous twenty-something who has a great career ahead of him to the disillusioned thirty-something who is shunned by the Berlin art world. And from the mentally broken forty-something who checks himself into a psychiatric clinic to the combative eighty-something who tries to keep his work out of the hands of the Nazis…
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