To celebrate the reopening of cinemas, MK2 MILE END is re-showing some films from its catalogue, including Parasite, Alice et le Maire, Le Grand Bain, L’Opéra de Paris and Portrait of a Lady on Fire, to be screened at the Dollar Cinema, Cinéstarz Langelier and Cinéstarz Côte-des-Neiges and from July 3rd at the Beaubien cinema and the Cinéma du Musée.
PARASITE by Bong Joon-ho – currently in cinemas
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the last Cannes Film Festival and winner of 4 Oscars, including Best Picture, PARASITE is the most popular foreign language film from this country since 2007.
ALICE ET LE MAIRE by Nicolas Pariser – currently in cinemas
Presented at the Directors’ Fortnight of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, ALICE ET LE MAIRE stars Fabrice Luchini alongside Anaïs Demoustier, winner of a César for this role.
LE GRAND BAIN by Gilles Lellouche – currently in cinemas
A comedy by Gilles Lellouche starring Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume Canet, Benoît Poelvoorde, Leïla Bekhti, Virginie Efira and Marina Foïs that plunges spectators into the heart of a men’s synchronized swimming competition.
L’OPÉRA DE PARIS by Jean-Stéphane Bron – In cinemas from July 3
Available as a digital premiere since June 19, the documentary showcases a season behind the scenes of the Paris Opera. Moving from dance to music, in turn ironic, light and cruel, the L’Opera de Pais is about human passions, and is a slice of life, at the heart of one of the most prestigious operatic institutions in the world.
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE by Céline Sciamma – In cinemas from July 3
While the film’s run in cinemas interrupted by the pandemic, the great love story which won at Cannes, directed by Céline Sciamma and starring Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel, will resume its run on the big screen.
New features will also be screened this summer:
FIRST COW by Kelly Reichardt – In cinemas from July 10
Presented at the Berlinale, this film directed by Kelly Reichardt (Night Moves, Wendy and Lucy, Old Joy), follows the fate of Cookie, a cook involved with a group of trappers in Oregon in the 19th century.
CRASH by David Cronenberg in 4k version – In cinemas from July 31
Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996 for its audacity, David Cronenberg’s classic will be released in a restored 4k version.
MARTIN Provost’s
LA BONNE ÉPOUSE – In cinemas from August 21
Starring Juliette Binoche, Yolande Moreau, Noémie Lvovsky and Édouard Baer, this summer comedy is directed by Martin Provost (Wise Woman).
Synopsis : Maintaining your home and bending to marital duty without flinching: this is what Paulette Van Der Beck teaches ardently in her home school. Her certainties waver when she finds herself widowed and ruined. Is it the return of her first love or the wind of freedom of May 68? What if the good wife becomes a free woman?
