Cinema screenings

Screening originally scheduled for January 5th, postponed to January 12th due to weather conditions

L’Étranger

Adaptation of Albert Camus’ L’Étranger

French-Belgian drama by François Ozon – 2h03

Starring Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder, Pierre Lottin

Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a young man in his thirties and a modest employee, buries his mother without showing the slightest emotion. The next day, he begins an affair with Marie, a colleague from work. Then he resumes his everyday life. But his neighbor, Raymond Sintès, disrupts his routine by dragging him into shady dealings, culminating in a tragedy on a beach under the blazing sun…

Monday, January 12th at 8:30pm 
Salle André Voisin in Fresnay-sur-Sarthe
5€

La Bonne étoile

French comedy-drama by Pascal Albé – 1h40

Starring Benoît Poelvoorde, Pascal Elbé, Audrey Lamy

France, 1940. Jean Chevalin and his family are living in poverty after he decided to… desert! The situation is no longer tenable. Convinced that “some people” are better off, Chevalin has a brilliant idea: to pretend to be Jewish in order to get help from smugglers to reach the free zone. From misunderstandings to revelations, he takes his family on a great journey that will dismantle his prejudices one by one…

Friday, January 16th at 8:30pm
Salle Loisirs et Culture in Beaumont-sur-Sarthe
6€

Kika

French-Belgian drama by Alexe Poukine – 1h50

Starring Manon Clavel, Ethelle Gonzalez Lardued, Makita Samba

While pregnant, Kika suddenly loses the man she loves. Completely broke, she ends up selling her panties before trying her luck in a rather disconcerting profession. Throwing herself into this activity she knows almost nothing about, Kika begins her journey back toward the light.

Monday, January 19th at 8:30pm
Salle André Voisin in Fresnay-sur-Sarthe
5€

Des preuves d’amour

French comedy-drama by Alice Douard – 1h37

Starring Ella Rumpf, Monia Chokri, Noémie Lvovsky

Céline is expecting her first child. But she is not pregnant. In three months, her wife Nadia will give birth to their daughter. Under the watchful eyes of her friends, her mother, and the law, she searches for her place and her legitimacy.

Monday, January 26th at 8:30pm 
Salle André Voisin in Fresnay-sur-Sarthe
5€

Dossier 137

French crime film by Dominik Moll – 1h55

Starring Léa Drucker, Guslagie Malanda, Mathilde Roehrich

Case 137 appears to be just another case for Stéphanie, an investigator with the IGPN, the police watchdog. A tense demonstration, a young man wounded by an LBD shot, circumstances to be clarified in order to establish responsibility… But an unexpected element will trouble Stéphanie, for whom case 137 becomes more than just a number.

Monday, February 9th at 8:30pm
Salle André Voisin in Fresnay-sur-Sarthe
5€

Heidi et le lynx des montagnes

Young audience screening

German-Belgian animated film – 1h19

Heidi lives with her grandfather in a mountain chalet. But everything changes when she finds an injured baby lynx and decides to take care of it. The young animal desperately needs to find its family in the mountains! Without her grandfather’s knowledge, Heidi and Peter decide to save their new companion. Things get complicated when a greedy businessman, Schnaittinger, wants to build a large sawmill in the mountains and sets traps for the lynxes. Now they must protect not only the lynx and its family, but also the village and the nature they love so much!

Monday, February 16th at 3pm
Salle André Voisin in Fresnay-sur-Sarthe
5€

Les enfants vont bien

French drama by Nathan Ambrosioni – 1h51

Starring Camille Cottin, Juliette Armanet, Monia Chokri

One summer evening, Suzanne, accompanied by her two young children, pays an impromptu visit to her sister Jeanne. Jeanne is taken aback. Not only have they not seen each other for several months, but Suzanne seems to be absent from herself. When she wakes up, Jeanne is stunned to discover the note left by her sister. Her shock gives way to anger when she realizes at the police station that no search can be launched: Suzanne has made the senseless choice to disappear…

Monday, February 16th at 8:30pm
Salle André Voisin in Fresnay-sur-Sarthe
5€

Chasse gardée 2

French-Belgian comedy by Antonin Fourlon and Frédéric Forestier – 1h40

Starring Didier Bourdon, Camille Lou, Hakim Jemili

Two years have passed in Saint Hubert. Life is peaceful there, perhaps too peaceful for Adélaïde and Simon, who miss having friends their own age. But that’s without counting on the arrival of Stanislas, the son of Bernard (the former president of the village hunters), who returns to live in the countryside with his wife and two children. They are beautiful, young, and friendly. Their only flaw: they practice hunting with hounds! The peace of the village is about to be disrupted: new neighbors, new problems…

Sunday, February 22nd at 5pm
Salle André Voisin in Fresnay-sur-Sarthe
5€