On June 22, spectators will finally be able to return to the movies. The major circuits including CGR, Pathé Gaumont, Cinéville, MK2 and UGC will open on Monday. Others, especially independent cinemas in the region such as Concorde in Pont-à-Mousson and Clap Ciné in Canet-Roussillon prefer to stay on a Wednesday and welcome their first spectators on June 24. Despite the postponement of many American blockbusters including Ghostbusters, the good surprise is that there will be a lot of interesting and varied films to be shown. Pending the announcement of the Cannes labeled films on Wednesday, several of which should be released this summer in theaters, here is a first glimpse of what awaits spectators. Note that in the 702 CGR cinemas, the place bought on the internet will cost 5 euros from June 22 to July 7. Online reservations will open Wednesday June 3 at 2:00 p.m.
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On the nine Wednesdays of this summer 2020, the first four will be dominated by French, European and South American films. On June 22, the priority will be to see the films that had just been released in mid-March when the cinemas had to close. The comedy which symbolizes the reopening of dark cinemas in France and which is carried by excellent critics and good word of mouth is La Bonne Épouse by Martin Provost with Juliette Binoche and Yolande Moreau (17,000 admissions in four days). This comedy will benefit from a very wide release with more than 600 screens. De Gaulle by Gabriel Le Bomin, Une sirène à Paris by Mathias Malzieu, La Communion by Jan Komasa which had attracted 55,000 spectators in ten days, and Un fils by Mehdi M. Barsaoui (14,000 spectators in three days) will also be back .
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The novelties of June 22 are dominated by foreign author films directed by women: In the shadow of Stalin, a thriller of journalistic investigation in the 1930s by the Polish Agnieszka Holland, Three summers by the Brazilian director Sandra Kogut , Cancion sin nombre by the Peruvian Melina Léon, Benni a drama by the German filmmaker Nora Fingscheidt, Brooklyn Secret by the Filipino Isabel Sandoval and Filles de joie chrono franco belge by Anna Paulicevich and Frédéric Fonteyne. Added to this is the horror film The Demon inside by Singaporean Pearry Teo.
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For the following weeks, distributors rely heavily on French comedies including Les Parfums by Grégory Magne with Emmanuelle Devos and Gustave Kervern (July 1), Tout simply noir by Jean-Pascal Zadi and John Wax with Fary (July 8) and Divorce club Michaël Youn (15 July).
The summer will also be marked by German cinema. My father's forest drama by Véro Cratzborn with Ludivine Sagnier is stalled on July 8. While the thriller Lands of Murders by Christian Alvart is expected on July 29.
On August 5, we will discover a first American feature film. It will be Light of my Life by Casey Affleck with Elisabeth Moss in the credits. The wandering of a father and his daughter in an America devastated by a pandemic that has decimated women. Wednesday, August 12, we will see the day of Marion Laine who immerses Sandrine Bonnaire and Brigitte Roüan in the daily life of a maternity hospital. Or Wonder Woman 1984, the sequel to the adventures of the DC superheroine.
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Children particularly spoiled at the cinema this summer will start on June 22 with the Korean animated film We Dogs by Oh Seong-Yun and Lee Choonbaek. Then we 'll take them to see the Danish animated film Mon Ninja et moi by Anders Matthesen and Thorbjörn Christoffersen (July 15). On Wednesday August 5, no less than three films with the Belgian Bigfoot Family by Ben Stassen and Jérémie Degruson, the Danish animated comedy Dreams by Kim Hagen Jensen and Tonni Zinck and Les jokes de Toto by Pascal Bourdieux. In the meantime, they will also see the live-action version of Mulan that Disney has scheduled for July 22. In more than 250 cinemas, the smallest, from the age of three, will be entitled to the Little Films Festival. On the program, eight films including The Little Taupe Loves Nature, The Little Cloud Factory, Walks Under the Stars.
On July 22, if the American multiplexes were able to open despite the pandemic and the atmosphere of civil war after the murder of George Lloyd by a white policeman in Minneapolis, we will discover the only real blockbuster of the summer: Tenet, film of spying on Christopher Nolan. For Disney's New Mutants superheroes , it will be August 26.
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The summer of 2020 will be, as usual, the high season for reissues and documentaries. Monday, June 22 will be the opportunity to discover the original restored version of Elephant Man, by David Lynch, whose 40th anniversary is celebrated. David Cronenberg's crash will appear on the big screen on July 15. On July 29, it will be the turn of the restored and digitized copy of the Shanghai Flowers by Hou Hsiao-Hsien Cannes selection from 1998 but also the restored and digitized version of Pluie noire by Shôhei Imamura selected at Cannes in 1989. August 12 , makes way for a retrospective of Japanese master Ozu with six films: Last Caprice, Equinox Flowers, Floating Herbs, Late Autumn and The Taste of Sake. To see David Cronenberg's fantastic thriller Scanners again, you'll have to wait until August 19. This Wednesday, we will also see the Spanish thriller The rebels of the year 2000 by Narciso Ibanez Serrador.
Also in August, we will see several documentaries including White Riot by Rubikah Skal (August 5) on the anti-fascist punk movement Rocka Against Facism and Lil'Buck: Real Swan by Louis Wallecan (August 12), a young street dance prodigy from Memphis. A reference for Madonna and Benjamin Millepied.
