December 17: original English version December 27: French dubbed version With its Christmas lights and dusting of snow, Kingston Falls is an idyllic small town–until the gremlins take over. A father returns from Chinatown with an unusual pet, a Mogwai–a gift for his son. The rules are simple: Keep your Mogwai away from water, bright […]
In Gunda, director Viktor Kosakovskiy’s (Aquarela)’s latest film, we are plunged into the immersive daily life of a sow as she tends to her litter on a farm. A universe that is both familiar and destabilizing, the film finds tremendous and poetic beauty in its minimalist black and white exploration of Gunda’s life, as well […]
In collaboration with Panorama-Cinéma Are you intrigued by stories of gleaming skulls, grim sacrifices, and hallucinogenic mushrooms? Hagazussa, set medieval Germany, is a pure gothic mystery, a folkloric fable and a daring art film that fits the style of Robert Eggers’s The Witch. Without ever falling into the pastiche or the grotesque, Lukas Feigelfeld’s graduation […]
Feeling responsible for the shattered lives of his loved ones, beleaguered police detective Nishi (Takeshi Kitano) takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows money from a yakuza loan shark and then […]
The audio installation Cinéma Moderne, novembre 2023 from Julie Faubert will be presented before the November 22nd screening. Only the following ticketholders will be able to witness the audio installation (by arriving 30 minutes before the screening) : B3, B4, B5, C3, C4, C5, D3, D4, D5. _______ Following the collapse of his clan, an unemployed […]
4K Restoration A stellar cast sizzles in Heat, a taut psychological drama about an obsessive detective and a brilliant thief whose fates are linked in the aftermath of a high-stakes securities heist. A brilliant L.A. cop (Al Pacino) follows the trail from a deadly armed robbery and becomes fixated on a deadly but equally brilliant […]
Here follows Stefan, a Romanian construction worker living in Brussels who is about to return home to visit his mother, and maybe stay…longer. Using the leftovers from his fridge, he cooks up a big pot of soup and begins handing it out as farewell gifts to friends and family. But while waiting for his car […]
In Hold Me Tight, Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread, Bergman Island) gives another riveting performance as Clarisse, a woman on the run from her family for reasons that aren’t immediately clear. Widely renowned as one of France’s great contemporary actors but less well-known in North America for his equally impressive work behind the camera, Mathieu Amalric’s […]
In tandem with the release of Annette, Cinéma Moderne offers you the chance to immerse yourself in the eerie and completely singular universe of Leos Carax’s Holy Motors. Here is a film to get lost into, with a hypnotic Denis Lavant in the role of Monsieur Oscar, a businessman who, in his limousine stuffed with […]