Japanese animation, French blockbuster, musical biopic, low-budget horror film… Cinema is back this September with some strong offerings.
The cinema is back in business. Japanese animation, French blockbusters, sequels to old hits, innovative action thrillers from India, musical biopics and cheap horror films… Movie theaters are showing a rich program for the new season.
After an exceptional start to the year, marked by several extraordinary hits, such as The Count of Monte Cristo (7 millions), Vice Versa 2 (8 million) and A little something extra (10 million), the public is more present than ever in the theaters.
Of Beetlejuice, Beetlejuicethe sequel to Tim Burton’s cult film, Love phewthe new Gilles Lellouche after the success of Large bathpassing through the sequence of Jokerthe next few weeks promise to be a spectacle.
• Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice Beetlejuicethe sequel to the cult film by Tim Burton released in 1988, hits the screens. Michael Keaton, at 72, takes on the title role of the grimacing demon, surrounded by Winona RyderWillem Dafoe, Jenna Ortega et Monica BellucciStill haunted by memories of Beetlejuice, Lydia (Winona Ryder) finds her life turned upside down when her daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega) accidentally opens a portal to the Afterlife and releases the prankster demon Beetlejuice.
Released September 11th
• Kill
The revival of action cinema is in India. Set entirely on a train, Kill follows the confrontation between a highly trained soldier and the gang of thieves who have targeted the woman he loves. Fight scenes like action cinema has not offered for a long time. “One of the most lively, wild and creative action films I have seen recently,” praised Chad Stahelski, the director of the franchise John Wick.
Released September 11th
• The Barbarians
Julie Delpy is back with a new comedy, The Barbariansled by Sandrine Kiberlain and Laurent Lafitte. A town in Ille-et-Vilaine decides to welcome a family of Ukrainian refugees. But when the family arrives in the village, these refugees are no longer Ukrainian but Syrian. Part of the hamlet becomes angry.
Released September 18th
• Look Back
Three years ago, the manga Look Back by Tatsuki Fuijimoto was a resounding success online. Its film adaptation is coming out this month, but for only two days, the time for exceptional screenings. Look Back tells the intertwined destinies of two young women, Fujino and Kyômoto. One is destined for drawing and the other for animation. A tragedy will separate them.
Released on September 21 and 22
• Emmanuelle
Noémie Merlant, the star of Portrait of a Lady on Fireis the heroine of a new adaptation of the erotic novel Emmanuelle. Signed Audrey Diwan, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival pour The Event, This film comes out fifty years after the first version with Sylvia KristelAu casting: Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive), Will Sharpe (The White Lotus) et Anthony Wong (Infernal Affairs).
Released September 25th
• Megalopolis
Presented at Cannes where it divided the critics, Megalopolis by Francis Ford Coppola is a baroque fresco, which compares today’s America to the decadent Roman Empire, mixing elements of science fiction, new age thinking and neo-antique style. This film depicts a dispute over land use between the visionary architect Caesar Catiline (Adam Driver) and Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito). This film marks the return of the legend of New Hollywood, after a 13-year absence from the cinema.
Released September 25th.
• Joker: Madness for two
This is one of the most anticipated films of the new school year. Set two years after the events told in the first film, Joker: Madness for Two tells the story of the meeting between the Joker and Harley Quinn. A few days before his trial, the Joker will find himself drawn into a spiral of violence. This new installment, like the first, is directed by Todd Phillips (Very Bad Trip).
Released October 2nd
• Niki
Presented at the Cannes Film Festival last May in the Un Certain Regard category, Niki is the first film by actress Céline Sallette. In it, she traces the life of artist Niki de Saint Phalle, a visual artist and painter who became a great name in art as an autodidact. Quebec actress Charlotte Le Bon, herself a painter, plays the artist.
Released October 9th.
• The Wild Robot
Chris Sanders, known for directing Dragonsreturns with a new animated feature film. The Wild Robotadapted from a novel by Peter Brown, follows the fate of a robot shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. There, he must learn to adapt to a harsh environment while becoming friends with the island’s animals, including an orphaned gosling.
Released October 9th.
• Terrifier 3
Third installment in a successful horror film series, Terrifier 3 will hit our screens a little before Halloween. Made with little means, the first two parts, written and directed by Damien Leone, were very successful in previous years. They feature Art, a sadistic clown who takes pleasure in mutilating his victims.
Released October 9th.
• Love phew
Love phewthe new film directed by Gilles Lellouche after the cardboard of the Big Bath in 2018, is presented as “an ultra-violent musical romantic comedy” and takes place over several decades in the north of France. This adaptation of a novel by the Irish Neville Thompson brings together in particular Adele ExarchopoulosFrançois Civil, Raphaël Quenard, Alain ChabatBenoît Poelvoorde and Jean-Pascal Zadi.
Released October 16th.
• Mr. Charles
This biopic by Grand Corps Malade and Mehdi Idir (Patients, School life), traces the career of Charles Aznavour, born in Paris into a family of exiled Armenians and trained at the Ecole des enfants du spectacle, then launched by Edith Piaf in the late 1940s. The singer is played by Tahar Rahim who plays opposite Victor Meutelet (Johnny Hallyday), Rupert Wynne-James (Frank Sinatra), Bastien Bouillon (Pierre Roche) and Marie-Julie Baup (Edith Piaf).
Released October 23rd.
• The Killer
After the successes of Lupin et Far from the ring roadOmar Sy continues to dabble in action cinema. Under the direction of Hong Kong legend John Woo, he is one of the heroes of The Killera remake of the Samurai with Alain Delon. The story of a killer (Natalie Emmanuel) who decides to come to the aid of the person she injured during a shootout and the policeman (Omar Sy) on her tail.
Released October 23rd.
• The Art of Being Happy
Benoît Poelvoorde is making his comeback to the cinema, a year after his last role. The Belgian actor returns to pure comedy after several dramatic roles. In The Art of Being Happya tender comedy with offbeat humor, he plays a painter as unknown as he is unhappy, searching for his place in this world.
Released October 30th.
• Anora
Awarded the Palme d’Or Cannes Film Festival 2024, Anora by Sean Baker is presented as a Pretty Woman in the 21st century. This comedy-drama tells the story of the meeting between Anora (Mikey Madison), an escort girl in a seedy New York club, and Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn), the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch. When they decide to get married, mobsters sent by Vanya’s parents arrive to annul the union. Released October 30.
