Ryan Gosling, Zendaya, Emily Blunt… the constellation of stars on this week’s billboard

‘Expert’

Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, who competed in last year’s two big productions, ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’, star together in the action thriller ‘The Specialist’, directed by David Leitch (‘Bullet Train’, ‘Deadpool 2’). Based on the 1980s television series of the same name, Gosling plays Colt Seavers, a stuntman who quits his job for a year to focus on his health and is rehired as the star of a big-budget studio movie he’s directing. Her ex, Jody Moreno (Blunt), disappears.

‘Rivals’

The tennis court becomes the setting for a love triangle in Luca Guadagnino’s new film ‘Rivals’, where Zendaya picks up the racket to play out her game life with Josh. O’Connor and Mike Faist. Zendaya plays Tashi Duncan, a world-class tennis star whose orbit of seduction is surrounded by two friends who are unknowingly destined to compete on the dirt for the heart of the young woman who retires due to a very serious injury.

‘We will always have a tomorrow’

This has become a cultural phenomenon in Italy; It triumphed at the box office and broke the record for Donatello awards nominations, while also sparking heated debates about exploitation and gender-based violence. Directed by Paola Cortellesi, ‘There’s Always Tomorrow’ is a black-and-white comedy-drama about a mother struggling to raise her three children in post-war Rome and eagerly receiving the news of her eldest daughter’s engagement until things get complicated.

‘Mammal’

Catalan Liliana Torres reflects her desire not to be a mother in the film ‘Mammifera’, which tells the story of a woman who unexpectedly becomes pregnant by her partner and feels under pressure even though she has always made it clear that she does not want to be a mother. because of social expectations and their own fears. It is the third film of Torres, starring María Rodríguez and Enric Auquer, which started with ‘Family tour’ in 2013 and continues with ‘What did we do wrong?’ in 2021. It completes the trilogy that will continue with. and had its world premiere at the South by Southwest festival in Texas.

‘I love Gloria’

‘Ama Gloria’, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival Critics’ Week, is a story about the relationship between a girl and her nanny, with the autobiographical inspiration of Georgian-French director Marie Amachoukeli. Cléo is a 6-year-old girl and she deeply loves Gloria, who has been raising her since birth. However, Gloria must return to Cape Verde, where her children are. Before leaving, Cléo asks him to keep one promise: to see her again as soon as possible.

‘Tails: the musical’

The wacky, irreverent and “weird” musical comedy centers around Craig and Trevor, two narcissistic and arrogant rivals in the business world; These two rivals discover that they are identical twins separated at birth, and decide to replace each other to reunite their divorced parents. From ‘Borat’ director Larry Charles comes this musical that parades a gallery of eccentric characters.

‘Palace’

On New Year’s Eve 1999, 90-year-old Roman Polanski releases a new film, “The Palace,” a grotesque comedy set in a luxury hotel amid the “Y2K” panic and starring Fanny Ardant and Joaquim. de Almeida, Mickey Rourke and John Cleese. Eccentric and cruel customers, millionaires who abuse paint and scalpels, elderly people with lovers in their twenties, and Russian gangsters come to that luxury hotel in the Alps to celebrate New Year’s Eve and drive the manager crazy. establishment.

‘Hammarskjöld: Fight for peace’

The death of then-UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961 remains a mystery to this day. The Swedish diplomat died when the plane he was traveling in crashed into Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) during a peace mission in Congo. Directed by Per Fly, this ‘thriller’ brings the viewer closer to the figure of one of the most innovative secretaries-general, who, in addition to pushing for international intervention, designed, organized and fielded the first ‘blue helmets’ contingent in the Sinai in Congo.

‘Joan Baez I Am Noise’

Joan Baez looks back at her 60-year career as a singer, activist and voice of a generation in this documentary that travels back and forth in time as it follows her on her farewell world tour. Through interviews, home videos, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings, Baez traces her life on and off stage, from her civil rights struggle with Martin Luther King to her heartbreaking love affair with a young Bob Dylan.

‘Devil’s Weed’

Two men on the road offer help to a woman with mechanical trouble and take her home. Here, a malevolent entity reveals dark traumas and family secrets. ‘The Devil’s Weed’ is a Spanish and Colombian co-production directed by Ángel Ayllón, starring Colombian actress and model Lina Cardona, exploring the so-called ‘zombification’, a common practice in Haiti.

‘Masterpiece’

The last concert of Ryuichi Sakamoto, who died in March 2023, was recorded by his son Neo Sora at an NHK studio in Tokyo at the end of 2022; It was a recital in which 20 songs were interpreted with a simple and minimalist staging in front of 30 people. Representative compositions from his career. From the 70s and 80s with the pioneers of electronic music, Yellow Magic Orchestra, to the music diary ’12’, which recalls the fragility and spirituality of his last days, recorded last summer.

‘river bed’

Bassem Breche’s debut film, which won the Palme d’Or at the 2023 Valencia Film Festival, is a story about family reconciliation between a mother and daughter, taking the audience to modern-day Lebanon and dealing with issues such as abortion, divorce and wounds. civil war.

‘An angel named Rebecca’

Directed by José María Zavala, the documentary tells the story of Rebeca Rocamora Nadal, a young woman in the process of attaining sainthood, who was born in a town in Alicante in 1975 and died of disease at the age of 20.