The second weekend of September comes with several films in theaters. Julia Roberts and George Cloney return to the big screen in Journey to Paradise, which tells the story of a divorced couple who travel to Bali to prevent their daughter from making the same mistake as them. Below you can see all previews from 9 to 11 September.
- Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro
- To the bones: bones and all
- the woman king
- Strange world
- Stories not to be told
- To close
- Inu Oh
- Hold me tight
- Detective Knight: No mercy
- The builders of the Alhambra
- What we know
- The tirabecco
- Ramona
Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro
- Duration: 117 mins.
- Director: Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson.
Synopsis: Stop motion animated musical version of ‘Pinocchio’, set in 1930s Italy. Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson direct this film, which in the original version features a stellar voice cast: Ewan McGregor (Jimmy Cricket), David Bradley (Geppetto) and newcomer Gregory Mann (Pinocchio). Also participating are Finn Wolfhard, Cate Blanchett (Oscar winner), John Turturro, Ron Perlman, Tim Blake Nelson, Burn Gorman, Christoph Waltz (Oscar winner) and Tilda Swinton (Oscar winner). Criticism Meri Station.
To the bones: bones and all
- Duration: 130 mins.
- Director: Luca Guadagnino.
Synopsis: It tells the story of first love between Maren, a young woman who is learning to survive on the fringes of society, and Lee, a homeless man with intense ideas who lives on the fringes. When they meet, they join a thousand-mile journey that takes them through highways, hidden passageways and byways in Ronald Reagan’s United States. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying past and a last stand that will determine if their love can survive as it is. Criticism Meri Station.
the woman king
- Duration: 135 mins.
- Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood.
Synopsis: A historical epic inspired by real events that took place in the Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states in Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries. The story follows Nanisca (Davis), a general in the all-female military unit, and Nawi (Mbedu), an ambitious recruit. Together they fought enemies who violated their honor, enslaved their people, and threatened to destroy everything they had lived for.
Strange world
- Duration: 102 mins.
- Director: Don Hall, Qui Nguyen.
Synopsis: The Clades are a family known all over the world, all famous explorers of worlds. One day, all together, they arrive in a new place that has never been trampled on by anyone. There they will have to face numerous dangers and discover new creatures never documented. However, the mission is put at risk and risks failing due to the many quarrels between family members.
Stories not to be told
- Duration: 99 mins.
- Director: Cesc Gay.
Synopsis: It tells of situations in which we can recognize ourselves and which we would prefer not to explain, or even forget. Unexpected encounters, ridiculous moments or absurd decisions, five stories with an acid and compassionate gaze on the inability to govern one’s emotions.
To close
- Duration: 105 mins.
- Director: Lukas Dhont.
Plot: Léo and Rémi, 13 years old, have been friends for a lifetime. Until an unthinkable event separates them. Léo then approaches Sophie, Rémi’s mother, to try to understand.
Inu Oh
- Duration: 98 mins.
- Director: Masaki Yuasa.
Synopsis: Inu-Oh was an authentic Sarugaku Noh artist who enjoyed great success in Japan during the 14th century. Today he is very little known due to the scarce information that exists about his work. Now, nearly 600 years later, this project reflects the legendary friendship between Inu-Oh and a Biwa artist with whom he became close friends.
Hold me tight
- Duration: 97 mins.
- Director: Mathieu Amalric.
Synopsis: She’s gone, abandoned her husband and children… or not?
Detective Knight: No mercy
- Duration: 105 mins.
- Director: Edward Drake.
Synopsis: James Knight is a veteran detective dedicated to navigating the challenging streets of Los Angeles. As the town prepares for Halloween, masked robbers seriously injure Knight’s partner in a shootout after a robbery. With Knight in hot pursuit, the bandits flee Los Angeles for New York, where the detective’s dark past collides with his current case and threatens to tear his world apart… unless redemption claims first. Knight.
The builders of the Alhambra
- Duration: 112 mins.
- Address: Isabel Fernandez.
Synopsis: 1340. Knowing that his besieged kingdom of Granada is doomed to disappear due to the advance of neighboring kingdoms, Yusuf I, the Sultan of Granada, undertakes the construction of a building that reflects the splendor of his civilization and defies the oblivion. : the palaces of the Alhambra. His vizier, Ibn al-Khatib (Amr Waked), poet and genius ahead of his time, takes part in this colossal challenge. But when the sultan’s son, Muhammad V, inherits the throne and involves him in the new politics of his kingdom, the vizier is torn between the ideas of his old world and the new one that is emerging. His chronicles tell us the story of Granada in the 1960s. XIV, the swan song of Muslim Europe.
What we know
- Duration: 98 mins.
- Address: Jordi Núñez.
Synopsis: Carla, a young waitress in a beach restaurant who dreams of a better life, is invited to spend an afternoon at the beach with Víctor, a handsome classmate, and his peculiar friends. An immediate attraction arises between the two, each time more intense and profound, which will change their lives forever.
The tirabecco
- Duration: 100 mins.
- Address: Dario Autran.
Synopsis: Sebastián Delgado, better known as Sebas, tries not to get fired as a reporter for the El Habitante newspaper as he tries to fix his marriage while trying to overcome his alcohol problems. It’s at a point where his whole life is falling apart. As a last opportunity for work, he is commissioned to report on jackdaws. What at first seemed like a quiet job will become an investigation with unpredictable consequences.
Ramona
- Duration: 80 mins.
- Director: Andrea Bagney.
Synopsis: Ramona has just arrived in Madrid with her boyfriend, Nico, and wants to start from scratch: she wants to be an actress, she wants to be a mother, she wants to live in Lavapiés. But she doesn’t audition, she doesn’t have a stable job and in her building there are two abusive floors that sell drugs and terrorize her.
Source | Film affinity
