Toni en famille
Toni

Date & Time: Friday 8th at 8:30pm

Details: Nathan Ambrosioni / France / 2023 / 96 mins

Starring: Camille Cottin, Léa Lopez, Thomas Gioria

Single mother Toni has five children and works full-time singing at bars. Twenty years ago, she had a hit single. Now her eldest daughter Mathilde is off to join a dance company and her son Marcus, a vlogger and influencer, is heading to University. With three young children left behind, Toni is faced with coping with their sometimes surprising escapades. And she herself is going to have to face the personal challenge of focusing on her future. Cottin, so effective and memorable in Call My Agent, is touching and funny in this good-hearted family drama.

“Toni en Famille is a great, popular film that will appeal to all ages. Moving, and served by an impeccable cast, it’s one of the season’s must-sees.” Sortir a Paris

Les trois Mousquetaires, 2e partie : Milady
The Three Musketeers – Part 2: Milady

Date & Time: Sunday 10th at 8:30pm
Details: Martin Bourboulon | France | 2023 | 121 mins |French with English subtitles
Genre: Action, adventure, history
Starring: François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Pio Marmaï, Romain Duris, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Vicky Krieps
Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO)

“The Three Musketeers: Milady picks up where the first film left off, the atmosphere at court thick with treasonous plotting, after a foiled attempt on the life of the king (Louis Garrel, stealing every scene with his air of bewigged ennui). D’Artagnan, abducted and facing torture at the hands of the granite-faced henchman of the Comte de Chalais, forms a temporary alliance with Milady. Meanwhile, war has been declared and the Musketeers head to the front at the port of La Rochelle, where a bracingly vigorous action sequence follows a daring assault on a fort.

If anything, this follow-up is even more enjoyable, its appeal boosted by Milady slinking on to centre stage, her weaponized sexuality backed up by her private collection of daggers and swords.” Wendy Ide, The Guardian

NOMINATED FOR 6 CÉSAR AWARDS

Les trois Mousquetaires, 1re partie : D’Artagnan
The Three Musketeers – Part 1: D’Artagnan

Date & Time: Saturday 9th at 8:30pm

Details: Martin Bourboulon / France / 2023 / 121 mins

Starring: François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Pio Marmaï, Romain Duris, Eva Green

“The first instalment of a two-film French-language adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s swashbuckling classic, this lavish period drama taps enthusiastically into the spirit of the source material. This is flamboyant, ostentatious, grandstanding film-making, unashamedly old-fashioned and incorrigibly entertaining. Everything, from the opulent court costumes to the showy single-shot fight sequence that cements the grudging respect between D’Artagnan and his new comrades, is delivered with a flourish and a wink.

All the muck and sweat in the world fails to disguise the fact that Civil makes for an impossibly pretty D’Artagnan, but the picture’s seductive power lies elsewhere, with a glorious, typically extravagant performance from Eva Green as the treacherous Milady. She’s great fun in a role that might have been tailor-made for her skill set: Milady is vampy, venomous and dripping with goth jewellery.” Wendy Ide, The Guardian

Nominated for six César Awards, 2024

La Passion de Dodin Bouffant
The Taste of Things

Date & Time: Thursday 7th at 8:30pm

Details: Trần Anh Hùng / France / 2023 / 145 mins

Starring: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Emmanuel Salinger

Peerless cook Eugenie (Binoche) has worked for the famous gourmet Dodin (Magimel) for the last 20 years. Bonding over a passion for gastronomy and mutual admiration, their relationship develops into romance and gives rise to delicious dishes that impress even the world’s most illustrious chefs. But Eugenie is fond of her freedom and has never wanted to marry Dodin. So, he decides to do something he has never done before, cook for her!

A delectable feast for the senses, The Taste Of Things is a stunningly beautiful romance that simmers with emotion.

“You’ll swear you can smell and taste every shot” The Telegraph

“An absolute delight” The Wrap

“So rich and romantic it will leave you woozy” Time Out

Best Director, Cannes Film Festival, 2023
Best Cinematography, Lumiéres Awards, 2024
Shortlisted for Best International Feature, Academy Awards, 2024
Nominated for three César Awards, 2024

Mon Crime
The Crime is Mine

IRISH PREMIERE

Date & Time: Tuesday 5th at 8:30pm

Details: François Ozon / France / 2023 / 102 mins

Starring: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Hubbert, Dany Boon

Comedy

Paris in the 1930s: struggling actress Madeleine (Tereszkiewicz) and her best friend Pauline (Marder), an unemployed lawyer, live in a cramped flat and owe five months’ rent. Opportunity knocks after a lascivious theatrical producer who made an inappropriate advance towards Madeleine is found dead. Madeleine stands trial for murder and ascends to decadent stardom, with Pauline serving as defence counsel and media circus ringmaster. A new life of fame, wealth, and tabloid celebrity awaits, until the truth comes out. The Crime Is Mine is a rollicking farce and scabrous satire with a wily feminist edge.

“Wildly entertaining… Ozon whips up a frothy story of murder, romance, blackmail, girl power, and a little bit of old French film history. It’s an escapist sort of frivolity that delights in bad behaviour, decadent costumes and lavish sets.” rogerebert.com

Le Pharaon, le sauvage et la princesse
The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess

Family Film

Date & Time: Sunday 10th at 11:00am

Details: Michel Ocelot / France / 2022 / 83 mins / Animation

Three tales, three ages, three worlds – a trio of colourful, sophisticated animated tales from Sudan, Medieval France and 18th century Turkey. In Ancient Egypt, a young king becomes the first black pharaoh to receive the hand of his loved one. During the French Middle Ages, a mysterious wild boy steals from the rich to give to the poor. In 18th century Turkey, a prince of pastries and a princess of roses escape the palace to live their love. From the king of French animation, comes another beautiful, family-friendly and stunning animated film suitable for all ages.

“Visually exquisite and could only be the work of Ocelot” – Screen International

Lumières Awards nominee, Best Animated Film, 2023

Le Règne animal
The Animal Kingdom

Cork Premiere

Date & Time: Wednesday 6th at 8:30pm

Details: Thomas Cailley / France / 2023 / 128 mins

Starring: Romain Duris, Paul Kircher, Adèle Exarchopoulos

A mysterious malady is sweeping France, unlocking something at a genetic level that causes people to transform into hybrid creatures. The mutations are slow and unpredictable: one person might sprout feathers, developing wings, while another grows scales and slithers like a snake. Through it all, 16-year-old Émile and his father, François, are just trying to stay calm, which isn’t easy when something akin to a zombie apocalypse is affecting the country.

This riveting adventure explores themes of ecology, tolerance of diversity and how communities cope with massive, uncontrollable, natural disasters.

“Rippling with visual invention” Screen International

“A highly original sci-fi film that serves as an empathetic parable for real-life intolerance of physical and neurological otherness.” Little White Lies

Opening Film, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival, 2023
Nominated for 12 César Awards, 2024, including for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor

Tempête
Ride Above

IRISH PREMIERE

Date & Time: Saturday 9th at 11:00am

Details: Christian Duguay / France / 2022 / 110 mins

Starring: Mélanie Laurent, Pio Marmaï, Carmen Kassovitz

Age: 8+

Born and raised with horses, Zoe leads a happy life at her parents’ racehorse stables in Normandy. This uplifting tale tells her story as she dreams someday about becoming a jockey like her father. When the stables prize mare, Beautiful Intrigue, gives birth to a foal, Zoe names him Tempest, and she is the first to see the champion in him that her parents have been waiting and working for all their lives.

Following a life-changing accident, Zoe’s life and that of her family, is entirely changed, and her jockey dreams all but gone. With the help of a special stable hand with a gift for communicating with horses, Zoe seeks to conquer the impossible, in pursuit of her dream.

“Not since a teenage Elizabeth Taylor rode her steed to victory in National Velvet has a film about a kid and a horse proven so effective.” Hollywood Reporter

Orphée
Orpheus

French Classic
Date & Time: Sunday 3rd at 11:00am
Details: Jean Cocteau / France / 1950 / 93 mins | French with English subtitles
Starring: Jean Marais, François Périer, Maria Casares, Marie Déa

This magical retelling of the Orpheus myth turns the lyre-playing singer of Greek legend into a famous left-bank poet in post-war Paris. Fallen out of favour and lost for poetic inspiration, Orphée becomes obsessed with a mysterious black-clad princess who first claims the life of a rival poet, and then Eurydice, his wife.
With its unforgettable imagery – the dissolving mirror through which characters pass into the next world, the leather-clad, death-dealing motorcyclists, and Cocteau’s magical special effects – Orphée is a work of haunting beauty that follows the poetic logic of a dream.

“It is much less a film than it is myself, a kind of projection of the things that are important to me.” Cocteau in a letter to a friend

“A hauntingly beautiful piece of cinema” The Times

“Jean Cocteau’s 1950 variation on the Orpheus myth has the compressed and expressive brilliance of poetry” The Guardian

Augure
Omen

Irish Premiere

Date & Time: Wednesday 6th at 6:15pm

Details: Baloji / Belgium, Democratic Republic of Congo / 2023 / 90 mins

Starring: Marc Zinga, Yves-Marina Ghahoua, Marcel Otete Kabeya

After spending years in Belgium, Koffi (Marc Zinga), a young Congolese man, returns to his birthplace of Kinshasa to confront his family and homeland culture. Secrecy and sorcery erupt when a nosebleed is mistaken for a curse, and Koffi is shunned from his family. Using magical realism to paint a portrait of undesirables and sorcerers, Omen delves into the intricacies of identity, culture, and belief systems through a deeply rich and visually captivating lens. Fulfilling all the promise of his multi-disciplinary projects in fashion, short film and styling, director Baloji offers up a feast for the senses.

“A visually striking, deeply compassionate and memorable debut” IndieWire

Prix New Voice, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival, 2023
Grand Prix, Best Film, Ghent International Film Festival, 2023
Best Director, Festival du film francophone d’Angoulême, 2023