And we make you want to go to the cinema in this year 2025 which begins, why not next Wednesday with Pedro Almodovar, crowned with a Golden Lion at the last Show from Venice for The room next door. After 2 short films in English, the Spanish master of melodrama signs his first feature film outside his borders: two friends meet again when one of them, incurably ill, decides to choose when and how she will die. She asks her friend to accompany her. The two actresses are Juliane Moore and Tilda Swinton, an oh-so virtuoso, moving duo, two actresses who have become naturally “Almodovarian”, in Spanish or in English, the maestro is an immense director of actresses.
If in 2024 you liked Amy Winehouse, Charles Aznavour or even Bob Marley, you are undoubtedly the target audience for such projects. For the others, take courage, it will still be complicated: in 2025 we will have Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Robbie Williams… We will still trust the Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain for his Maria (understand Maria Callas) with Angelina Jolie. And the echoes are for the moment rather good for A complete unknown on Bob Dylan with Timothée Chalamet, directed by James Mangold, it arrives in French cinemas on January 29.
Here are the other films particularly anticipated in 2025: undoubtedly the last part of Mission Impossiblewhich will certainly be presented by star Tom Cruise at the Cannes Film Festival (the film releasing in May). But also the new feature films by Steven Soderbergh, Julia Ducournau, South Korean Bong Joon-Ho, obviously eagerly awaited after the triumph of Parasite in 2019, and in a completely different register the next film by Jean-Pascal Zadi on the first African space mission.
A French director that we really like at franceinfo, Rebecca Zlotowski, is finalizing Privacywith Jodie Foster as a psychiatrist disturbed by the death of one of her patients, also casting Virginie Efira, Daniel Auteuil and Mathieu Amalric. Dominik Moll, Caesarized in 2023 for The night of the 12threturns with Dossier 137 and Léa Drucker as an IGPN cop. The very divisive Terrence Mallick will evoke the life of Jesus, no less, in The way of the wind. The gifted Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan, who amazed us with A great journey into the nightlaunches into science fiction with Resurrection. Finally, and this list is anything but exhaustive, the brilliant Kristen Stewart goes behind the camera for the first time with The chronology of waterintimate portrait of a professional swimmer.
We are not yet done with 2024 since the biggest hits and/or best films of the past year will be rewarded in the United States. We await the Golden Globes, on the night of Sunday to Monday, before the Oscars and a certain Jacques Audiard, at the head of the nominations (10 in total) for Emilia Perezawarded twice at Cannes. This incredible musical filmed in Spanish continues its successful career, will the gender transition of a Mexican narco set to music by Camille and Clément Ducol go triumphantly to the Oscars, that’s all we wish it , so delightful is the audacity of Jacques Audiard.
Closer to us, the fiftieth Caesar will take place on February 28 and we are already announcing a “triello“, three-way duel, between the three biggest French hits of the year: A little something extra, The Counts of Monte Cristo et phew love with no less than 25 million entries between them. But the very beautiful Story of Souleymane by Boris Lojkine could well play spoilsport. Nominations will be known on January 29.
