Marisa Montiel |
Madrid (EFE).- The third installment of “Creed”, a saga derived from “Rocky”, a family drama starring Hugh Jackman, “The Son” and “To Leslie”, a film that has earned him an Oscar nomination for actress Andrea Riseborough are the focus of this week’s film releases.
The judicial drama “Saint Omer: the people against Laurence Coly” or a story about Pirandello starring the Italian Toni Servillo are also coming to the billboard.
“Creed III”, the saga derived from Rocky
Michael B. Jordan returns to the ring in the third installment of this franchise derived from Rocky in which he also makes his directorial debut, although this time he will not have the participation of Sylvester Stallone.
After making it big in the world of boxing, Adonis Creed is reunited with a childhood friend Damian (Jonathan Majors), also a boxer, who has just served a long prison sentence and wants a new opportunity in the ring.
Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern in “The Son”
After “The Father”, which won Anthony Hopkins an Oscar, Florian Zeller brings to the screen the second installment of his theatrical trilogy about the family, “The Son”, starring Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern.
Jackman is a busy father living with his new partner and baby when his distant and troublesome teenage son moves in with them, putting the family in a dangerous situation.
“To Leslie” and the controversial nomination of Andrea Riseborough
Although her work had initially gone unnoticed, the support of dozens of Hollywood stars in promoting the film led actress Andrea Riseborough to get an Oscar nomination for this film directed by Michael Morris.
Based on true events, the film tells the story of a West Texas single mother who, after winning the lottery, quickly squanders the prize and spends it all.
“Saint Omer”, An Award-Laden Courtroom Drama
Based on the true story of an infanticide that shocked France in 2016, “Saint Omer: The People Against Laurence Coly” is a courtroom drama that has represented France at the Oscars and won, among others, the Grand Jury Prize. at the Venice Festival or for best film at the Seville European Film Festival.
Alice Diop, a Frenchwoman of Senegalese origin, directs the film about a young woman accused of letting her 15-month-old baby die by abandoning him at high tide on a beach in northern France.
Toni Servillo revindicates Pirandello
The Italian actor Toni Servillo, known for his work in “La gran belleza”, gives life to Luigi Pirandello in “La inspiración. The great Pirandello”, a film that lowers the great playwright who revolutionized theater at the beginning of the 20th century from the pedestal.
His third collaboration with the director Roberto Andó, after “Viva la libertad” (2013) and “Las confesiones” (2016), is a historical comedy that narrates an episode in the life of Pirandello and his relationship with two gravediggers turned into amateur theater actors in his native Sicily.
Bruce Willis’s farewell: “Detective Knight: Last Mission”
Third part of the trilogy about detective Knight with which Bruce Willis says goodbye to the cinema, retired due to frontotemporal dementia, according to the last known medical diagnosis a few weeks ago.
In the film, Willis embarks on a race against time to prevent, on Independence Day, an ambulance, driven by a criminal who intends to rob a bank disguised as a police officer, from endangering the festive events of the city.
“Horses die at dawn”, an ode to art
The second feature film by Navarran filmmaker Ione Atenea is a documentary, based on her experiences, that reconstructs the lives of the García Bartolomé brothers.
The director and her sister moved into a house in Barcelona that had been unoccupied for three years and there they discovered a huge number of objects and graphic documents from its previous tenants. Antonio was a cartoonist for the Bruguera publishing house, Rosita was an opera singer and pianist.
“King, my little king” a tender family story
David Moreau directs this family adventure comedy that promotes values such as friendship, adventure and family.
Two brothers, with the help of their grandfather, strive to overcome their differences to help a lion cub, which has lost its way in the city of Paris, to return to its habitat on the African continent.
A robot that sings in high school
“Sing with a Spark of Harmony” is an animated film directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura that revolves around a mysterious new student who arrives at the institute, who quickly becomes very popular, but has a secret.
In reality, the mysterious Shion is an artificial intelligence under test created to make the lonely Satomi happy. Her strategy to achieve it: sing.
