A glittering Jennifer Lopez as a pop star (...), in a film released just before Valentine's Day, and Kenneth Branagh, who after Belfast, the film that earned him seven nominations at this year's Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, returns to Agatha Christie and the role of Hercule Poirot.
Also, the Berlin Film Festival award-winning film «Natural Light», but also the poetic, his first and last film Icelandic composer Johan Johansson.
The films coming to cinemas on Thursday 10 February.
«Crime on the Nile»
«When you have money, no one is your friend...». The famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot travels to Egypt on a spectacular steamer. When a couple's seemingly perfect and idyllic honeymoon is abruptly interrupted by violent deaths, Poirot's journey turns into an adventure as he is called upon to once again discover the killer.
Kenneth Branagh returns both behind and in front of the camera - in the role of Poirot - along with Gal Gadot, Letitia Wright, Armi Hammer, Annette Benning and Russell Brandt, bringing Agatha Christie's second feature film to the big screen, following the box office success of Crime on the Orient Express (2017).
Christie's most exotic novel and certainly one of her most popular, a story of love and rivalry that ends in murder, is set in Egypt - a country the author knew well.
«Marry me»
Lopez as superstar Kat Valdez and Owen Wilson as Charlie Gilbert, a math teacher, in an unexpected romance about two totally different people.
Kat Valdez is one half of the music industry's dynamic couple, along with Bastian (Maluma in his film debut). The couple's new hit single titled «MarryMe» is dominating the charts as they prepare to celebrate their wedding in front of their fans in a ceremony that will be broadcast live and is expected to «blow up» the internet.
A divorced math teacher, Charlie Gilbert (Owen Wilson) has barely accompanied his daughter and his best friend to the concert.
When Kat learns, just before the ceremony, that Bastian has cheated on her, she breaks down, questioning love, truth and loyalty, and turns to a stranger, a random person in the crowd, choosing to marry Charlie.
And they lived happily ever after.
«Last and First People»
Two billion Earth years in the future, the last generation of humans is on the brink of extinction. From their distant, colonized planet, they send a last filmed message to the current inhabitants of Earth.
Based on the prophetic science fiction novel by Olaf Stapleton, written in 1930, narrated by Tilda Swinton, filmed in the former Yugoslavia, the first and last film by the legendary Icelandic composer and artist Johan Johansson (who signed the soundtracks of films such as «Chicario», Contact, Mother and The Theory of Everything, and boasts a rich discography of groundbreaking electronic music), is a heartbreaking yet timely transcendental, filmic experience of humanity's present and future.
Johansson died suddenly in 2018 while the film was in the making, which, as the New York Times wrote, the description «film», while accurate, is itself misleading, as the viewer feels like they are watching a meditative narrative that is somewhere between the mythology of Dune and the documentary Robinson in Ruins, with the voice of Vanessa Redgrave.
«Natural Light»
A group of soldiers from Hungary (who were on the side of Germany) search for guerrillas in villages during World War II. A story about what it means to be on the wrong side of history, but also a detailed depiction of the horrors (taking place off screen).
The film, the directorial debut of Denes Nagy, won the Silver Bear - Director's Award at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival. «Gripping and beautifully shot, mesmerizing images, great direction and masterful control of every aspect of cinematography, with a narrative that transcends its historical context. A portrait of war, in which the director's observant gaze reminds us of the need to choose between passivity and taking personal responsibility,» according to the Berlin Film Festival Jury.
