“Nosferatu”, “The Flood”… Films to see (or not) at the cinema this week

C’may be a strange way to celebrate Christmas, but Robert Eggers' sumptuous gothic tale, Nosferatuarrives on the screens and dives into the nightmares of Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp), haunted by a vampire from Transylvania.. With Ernest Cole, photographerRaoul Peck signs a very strong documentary on the life and work of the great apartheid photographer. For children (between nine and ten years old), note the wonderful My Sunshine by Hiroshi Okuyama.

For their part, seven years later My boyGuillaume Canet and Mélanie Laurent meet in The Floodwhich evokes the last moments of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette locked up with their children and loved ones in the Temple tower. We also find Adèle Exarchopoulos in a rather new genre for her (and still very rare in French cinema), anticipation science fiction, with the film Planet B by Aude Léa Rapin, in which radical environmental activists are locked in a virtual prison, created by a repressive futuristic society.

Finally, for fans of Brazilian-style erotic-exotic curiosities, there is Destination Motel.

“Nosferatu” ✭✭✭✭

Gothic tale

Although we know the history – that of Dracula by Bram Stoker revised and corrected by FW Murnau then by Werner Herzog – by heart, it is a great pleasure to find it again. Or a naive young man (Nicholas Hoult), sent from England to Transylvania to conclude a mysterious real estate deal. Here he is facing u […] Read more