Here is our selection of the must-sees at the cinema among the new releases showing on Wednesday January 8, 2025.
Andrea Arnold’s new poetic film, after “American Honey”
What is it about? Twelve-year-old Bailey (Nykiya Adams) looks older than her years. No wonder, there is no room for carelessness in this small town in Kent. She lives in a squat with her father (Barry Keoghan) who is preparing to marry his new partner. His older half-brother, involved in gang activities, gets his girlfriend pregnant, while his mother lives elsewhere, in equally precarious conditions, with three young children and a violent partner. One day, Bailey crosses paths with a strange man named Bird (Franz Rogowski), who, after decades, follows in the footsteps of his childhood and his parents. Soon, a unique friendship is forged between the two characters.
By Pedro Almodóvar, Golden Lion at the Venice Exhibition 2024
What is it about? Based on the novel “What is your torment?” (2023) by American writer Sigrid Nunez, “The Room Next Door” is Almodóvar’s first feature film shot in the language of Shakespeare. An author, Ingrid (Julianne Moore), learns by chance that her former friend, war reporter Martha (Tilda Swinton), has cervical cancer.
A sexual assault case in Spain in the early 2000s
What is it about? In 1999, at just 24 years old, Nevenka Fernández (Mireia Oriol) was elected municipal councilor at the town hall of Ponferrada. If his relationship with the charismatic mayor Ismael Alvarez (Urko Olazabal) begins cordially, everything deteriorates very quickly. Mentally and physically harassed, Nevenka endures hell. She then decides to file a complaint.
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