“In the gloom”

Lithuania, 1948. As the Soviets take control of the country, some ex-soldiers mixed with civilians flee into the woods and start a guerrilla war against the communist occupier. The young Ute, the son of wealthy landowners, witnesses a shocking family crisis at home and abroad, as the small world of the local farm and town comes crashing down as he contemplates joining the insurgents. These, although they are few, with very few weapons and means, and always exposed to denunciation and betrayal, try to fight the Soviet military and the NKVD commissars who accompany them. Usually lazy, contemplative and boring, the Lithuanian Sharunas Bartas has in this “Na Penumbra” her most accessible film with an increasingly better narrative and dramatic core, a dark anti-heroic story about the dissolution of a family and the irremediable entry of her country into a long dark totalitarian winter.

“The mother and the whore”

Rerun, in a restored copy, of the film directed by Jean Eustache in 1973, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Festival (against the wishes of the president, Ingrid Bergman, who was reluctant to award it because she found it unpleasant). Autobiographical, filmed in black and white, very lengthy and performed by Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont and Françoise Lebrun, “The Mother and the Whore” begins as a Parisian couple and progresses to a love triangle. It is totally marked by the time in which it was made, the hangover of May 68, the end of revolutionary illusions and the beginning of the 70s of sexual liberation and female emancipation, and configured from top to bottom by an unmistakable and unbearable “ authorism”. ”. French. There is no middle ground before him: either we are on the side of that (many) criticism that considers it a masterpiece and refers to it only with superlatives, or on the side of Ingrid Bergman (in my case).

“Thor: Love and Thunder”

The fourth film in the Marvel Universe dedicated to the character of Thor, and the second directed by Taika Waititi after “Thor: Ragnarok” (2017) and which, like this one, combines the superheroic adventure with its parody. Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and his alien companion Korg will battle Gorr, the butcher of the gods, who is killing deities across the cosmos and kidnapping the children of New Asgard. “Thor: Love and Thunder” also marks the return of Dr. Jane Porter (Natalie Portman), the astrophysicist who broke the God of Thunder’s heart in a previous film, now suffering from cancer and transformed into the female version of his ex-boyfriend, aiding him in his confrontation with Gorr. Also with Christian Bale, Tessa Thompson and chubby Russell Crowe doing a roll in the role of Zeus.