Movies coming out this week, for a weekend at the cinema
ELLEby Paul Verhoeven
The Dutch director returns to theaters after an absence that began in 2006, telling the story of Michèle, a tough and independent businesswoman, whose life is turned upside down by the aggression of a mysterious stranger. Michèle tracks down her attacker and starts a high-voltage game with him. A fascinating and well packaged thriller, which can count on the masterful interpretation of a magnificent Isabelle Huppert.
Life - Don't cross the lineby Daniel Espinosa.
The model of the work is openly Alien. It is easy to identify the matrix of Ridley Scott's masterpiece in the film, which can count on the performances of Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson and Ryan Reynolds: the crew of a space station heads towards earth with a sample that proves the existence of life extraterrestrial on Mars, but this life form poses a threat to our planet and must be destroyed.
It is not a country for young peopleby Giovanni Veronesi
A title that is a declaration of intent. The Italy that suffocates its young people and forces them to flee, to scatter around the world as far as Cuba, the land of arrival for Sandro and Luciano, who are looking for money and adulthood away from home, but will find so much more. Their journey has just begun.
Slam - Everything for a girlby Andrea Molaioli
Based on a novel by Nick Hornby, it tells the story of Sam, a sixteen year old with a passion for skateboarding who is faced with a much bigger problem than him: his girlfriend Alice, in fact, is expecting a child. Molaioli tells with grace and humor, and also taking advantage of the secondary but remarkable performances of Jasmine Trinca and Luca Marinelli, a bildungsroman of a young Roman boy, faced with a choice that could change his life forever.
BOX OFFICE
As expected, Beauty and the Beast leads the way, with box office takings of €6.923.885. Staccatissimo The Ring 3, in second place with a gross of €772.015. John Wick 2 closes the podium, with €766.314. To close the top 5 Kong: Skull Island, €729.537, and The Right to Count, with €574.010.
