Films to see in May 2024

Homage to the stuntmen – director David Leitch, already behind it Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2 And Bullet Trainwas one of them at the beginning of his career – The Fall Guy it’s also an old-fashioned rom-com with two stars who shine: Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt (see their recent issue at Saturday Night Live). But also a wild one action comedy with pyrotechnic sequences, starting from the initial one of the accident that “stops” the protagonist. But then… The cast also includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Winston Duke and Stephanie Hsu.

After the death of their father, a group of brothers and sisters try to re-establish relationships that have become very stormy over the years. This is the pitch of Simone Godano’s new film (Wife and husband, Cross and delight, Marilyn has black eyes) which features a large cast of Italian-style stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Adriano Giannini, Valentina Bellè, Linda Caridi and Gabriel Montesi are just some of the many faces on the screen.

First of three films (!) starring Anne Hathaway coming out in our theaters this month. Great success at the last SXSW Festival, it tells the story of Solène, a forty-year-old divorcee who works in an art gallery. When she accompanies her teenage daughter to Coachella, she meets 24-year-old Hayes Campbell (the Nicholas Galitzine now on Sky and NOW in Mary & George), very famous singer of the boyband August Moon, and… He directs the director of The Big Sick And Tammy Faye’s eyes.

Fourth chapter of the reboot series of the 1968 cult starring Charlton Heston, it takes us 300 years after Caesar’s death among clans that have never heard of the old leader, like the one to which the young chimpanzee Noa is a member. After a sudden attack by a rival group, many of his companions are enslaved. An adventure will begin, on the part of Noa and co, to free them.

Nominated by France for the latest Oscars (but did not make it into the top five), the film by the French-Vietnamese director Trần Anh Hùng (The scent of green papaya, Cyclo) is the portrait of Eugénie (Juliette Binoche), a cook in late nineteenth-century France who works for the famous gastronome Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel). Over time, a feeling arises from the professional relationship. But the woman is unsure whether to bond with Dodin, so the latter decides to do something he had never done before her: cook for her.

Another round, another Anne Hathaway. This time in the remake of the film Double suspicion by Olivier Masset-Depasse, released in 2018 and in turn based on the novel Over the hedge by Barbara Abel. After the accidental death of her son Max, Celine (Hathaway) becomes morbidly possessive of Theo, the son of her friend and neighbor Alice (Jessica Chastain). A challenge between Oscar-winning actresses, with psycho-noir developments.

First work by Filippo Barbagallo, suspended between the first Moretti and the first Muccino, but obviously with the eye of the (late) millennial generation. When mum and dad leave for the summer holidays, Dario (Barbagallo himself), an architecture student, decides not to follow them. And in his Roman summer two girls very different from him (and each other) appear… Artistic supervision by Gianni Di Gregorio (and it shows), Valerio Mastandrea is also in the cast.

Third film starring Anne Hathaway, based on a novel by Ottessa Moshfegh. Young Eileen (the Thomasin McKenzie of Jojo Rabbit) works as a secretary in a juvenile prison and takes care of Jim (Shea Whigham), her alcoholic father. One day the charismatic psychologist Rebecca Saint Joan (Hathaway) enters the reformatory, and the girl is immediately attracted by her elegance and intelligence. Here too, a challenge between women, against the backdrop of a thriller à la Hitchcock in the capable hands of the author of Lady Macbeth.

From the novel of the same name by Antonella Lattanzi, the story, set in Puglia, of Vito and Carla, a couple separated for some time. After years of great love but also of strong jealousy and violence on the part of the man, the two decided to separate also for the love of their children. But it won’t be that simple. Second work by Leonardo D’Agostini after The samplestars Laetitia Casta, Andrea Carpenzano, Cristiana Dell’Anna, Giordano De Plano and the rediscovered Licia Maglietta.

In a post-apocalyptic world, Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy), kidnapped as a child from the Green Place of Many Mothers where she lived, is welcomed under the wing of the mad warlord Dementus (Chris Hemsworth), whose army of bikers will soon come to clash with the rival power of those desert lands represented by Immortan Joe. Prequel, always by the visionary George Miller, of the cult Mad Max: Fury Road (where Furiosa was Charlize Theron). Out of competition at Cannes.