The month of ‘Sale’ is letting its guard down a bit, perhaps driven by strong theatrical releases this July. ‘Mission impossible’ with ‘oppenheimer‘. A few rock documentaries about hostile musicians like Wham! and King Crimson, many generic mixes, some documentaries ‘true crime’ (the big TV genre in vogue) or a remake of a pandemic plot Sandra Bullock in a fantasy movie set in a deserted Barcelona.
1. ‘VAM!’
Voted the best ‘boy group’ of all time in 2008, Wham! It was actually a duo of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, best known for their later career. They were active between 1981 and 1986. Directed by Chris Smith, this documentary chronicles their careers well through interviews and archival material.
2. ‘AT THE COURT OF THE RED KING’
It’s not your typical documentary about a band without a record label, despite Robert Fripp’s hang of the ‘progrock’, symphonic rock and ‘art rock’ labels. The film addresses the band’s past by revising their methodology rather than their past, but above all it sticks to their present with spectacular live concerts led by the three drummers.
3. ‘A PLACE TO FIGHT’
First original French Disney+ movie. It blends intrigue, action and romance. Its protagonists are an agent of the French headquarters of homeland security and an environmental activist (played by Lyna Khoudri, the star of the recently released ‘Huria’). Love and ideological conflicts are served.
4. ‘BAD CITY’
Presented in the latest edition of the Sitges festival. Its director, Kensuke Sonomura, pays a stylized homage to 1980s Japanese thrillers with the character of a veteran police investigator equally confronted by two rival mafia gangs and corrupt institutions of power.
5.’START’
Colombia is one of the Latin American countries that has a more regular film production today. ‘The Initiates’ is a thriller with a social conscience. It chronicles the woes of a reporter who, during a murder investigation, begins to uncover an enormous conspiracy.
6. ‘BIRD BOX BARCELONA’
Barcelona update of the 2019 American movie ‘Bird Box (Blindly)’ starring Sandra Bullock by brothers Álex and David Pastor. Mario Casas and Georgina Campbell, now facing the threat of an epidemic emptied the streets of the Catalan capital. .
7. ‘TYRONE CLONE’
A mix of science fiction, mystery, some horror, comedy and drama. The three protagonists (John Boyega, Jamie Foxx and Teyonah Perris) find themselves caught up in a strange conspiracy involving top government officials that begins to develop overnight in their Atlanta neighborhood.
8. ‘LOSS: THE CASE OF LUCIE BLACKMAN’
A classic ‘true crime’ that sheds light on the events leading up to the disappearance of British Lucie Blackman in Tokyo in 2000. International investigations have found the whereabouts of his killer, Joji Obara, a Japanese millionaire who wore a mask before using drugs. , rape and in some cases murder their victims.
9. ‘IL BOEMO’
Inspired by a real character, this Czech production competing at the San Sebastian festival chronicles the artistic, emotional and hedonistic adventures of a young violinist living in Venice in 1764, who aspires to be an opera composer and becomes the lover of a Libertine marquis. opens the doors of society to him.
10. “BREAT DISEASE”
Nothing escapes the flow radar. After Cheetos or Tetris comes a movie about the creation of ‘Beanie Boos’, the bulging-eyed stuffed animals that are now taking the toy market by storm. ‘The Hangover’ comic book heroes Zach Galifianakis, Elizabeth Banks and Sarah Snook are supporters of dolls.