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

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

Mars Express

IRISH PREMIERE

Date & Time: Saturday 9th at 4:00pm

Details: Jérémie Périn / France / 2023 / 85 mins / Animation

With the voices of: Léa Drucker, Mathieu Amalric, Daniel Njo Lobé

Set in the 23rd century on Mars, this animation feature follows the investigation of a murder case by private investigator Aline Ruby and her android companion. An intriguing story of brain farms, corruption, and robots.

“Mars Express serves a heady pop-culture cocktail, mixing hard-boiled fiction with science-fantasy comix, riffing on Philip Marlow and Philip K. Dick (with winks to Watchmen and Robocop and oh, so many more) with a mystery yarn that places humans and cyborgs on equal footing.” Variety

“A visually stylish sci-fi that wrestles with some of the questions that we are only just beginning to address about our relationship with AI.”
Screen International

Best Animated Film, Paris Film Critics Association Awards, 2024
Nominated Best Animated Film, the Lumières Awards, 2024
Nominated Best Animated Film, International Cinephile Society, 2024
Nominated for Best Animated Feature in the César Awards, 2024