Marisa Montiel |
Madrid (EFE) , “The Master Gardener,” starring Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver.
The Spanish thriller “La desconocida”, about cyber bullying of minors, and a French one starring Isabelle Huppert are also being released.
“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts”
With Steven Spielberg as executive producer, one of the highest-grossing sagas of action and science fiction cinema returns, based on two robotic factions, the Autobots and the Recepticons, originating from the planet Cybertron and capable of taking different forms, such as vehicles or animals.
After five installments directed by Michael Bay, the ‘spin-off’ “Bumblebee” premiered in 2018 and now comes its prequel, “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts”, a new adventure around the world, with much of the plot on Peruvian stages, directed by Steven Caple Jr and starring Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback.
American comedian Sebastian Maniscalco makes his feature film debut opposite Robert De Niro in this culture clash comedy based on his own relationship with his real father and his family life as the son of Italian immigrants.
Directed by Laura Terruso, it has a cast with Leslie Bibb, Kim Cattrall and David Rasche.
Paul Schrader closes a trilogy with “The Master Gardener”
Scriptwriter of “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull” and director of cult works such as “American Gigolo” (1980), Paul Schrader closes the trilogy of “The Reverend” (2017) and “The Card Counter” with this psychological drama (2021).
The plot revolves around a conscientious gardener (Joel Edgerton) who carefully tends and protects the lavish garden of a wealthy widow (Sigourney Weaver) while battling the ghosts of a neo-Nazi past.
“Stay By Me”, a gay romantic drama
Based on the memoirs of journalist Michael Ausiello (Jim Parsons), “Stay By Me” tells her love story with photographer Kit (Ben Aldrige), which provides her with a new family and circle of friends.
Michael believes that his life unfolds like the script for one of the romantic comedies he loves so much, without imagining the twists that fate will take that will transform his relationship with Kit.
Omar Sy is “Father and Soldier”
One of France’s most popular actors, Omar Sy, stars in this story directed by Mathieu Vadepied, which is set in 1917 in the French colony of Senegal, where France forcibly recruited young Senegalese to join its infantry and artillery corps in the first World War.
Sy takes on the role of a man who enlists to stay with his 17-year-old son, who has been forcibly recruited.
“The unknown”, a thriller about cyberbullying minors
Based on a play by Paco Bezerra and directed by Pablo Maqueda, “La desconocida” is a thriller with a realistic tone and many twists in the script that addresses the issue of cyberbullying against minors and the concern generated by the possibility of living with the monstrous without know.
The plot, starring Laia Manzanares and Manolo Solo, revolves around a meeting in a park between a young and naive student and a man whom she has met through a chat posing as a 16-year-old boy.
Isabelle Huppert is “An Easy Target”
Directed by Jean-Paul Salomé, “An Easy Target” tells the true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert), the union director of a French nuclear multinational, who denounces secret agreements that mean the loss of jobs for more than 50,000 workers.
It is a thriller about a woman who makes a complaint and to whom no one listens and who, after suffering violent pressure that turns into threatening warnings, suffers a violent attack in her own home of which she goes from being a victim to being a suspect.
“My little brother”, a drama about an immigrant mother
Winner of the Cannes Camera d’Or for Best First Feature with “Welcome to Montparnasse” (2017), French director Léonor Serraille now presents a drama about a mother from the Ivory Coast and her two children since arriving in France in the 80s until their children became independent.
The story is inspired by the life of the father of her children, her own feelings as a mother and the questions she asks about the family, as she told in her presentation in Cannes last year.
“Nato O. The origin of evil”, independent crime film
This first film by the Spanish director Gon Crespo is an independent international production of the police genre and shot between Andalusia and New York.
A murderer is on the loose in New York killing without any kind of pattern or victim profile. An expert professor in criminology collaborates in the investigations with a homicide police inspector from the Big Apple.
“Alma Alva”, a supernatural family drama
The French filmmaker Cristèle Meira has shot her debut film in Portugal, a journey through time in which beliefs about the existence of spirits are still alive and where Salomé, the protagonist, will be able to unite her family under a redeeming rain.
“Alma Alva” is a film that explores the power of myth, suggestion and nature and also a portrait of rural emigration and family breakups caused by inheritance.