We just came back from Cannes Film Festival with a high dose of ‘movitamins’, or explicitly movie vitamins… to rock the coming season with the best films to come…

BE FREE…

Who’s better than drama veteran Matthew McConaughey and young promising GuguMbatha-Raw (Concussion) to lead a revolution during the American Civil War in FREE STATE OF JONES!? Whena poor farmer Newton Knight from Mississippi, leads a group of small farmers and local slaves in an armed rebellion, besides marrying a former enslaved woman… He might end up as well winning a second Oscar!


Call it ‘Captain FANTASTIQUE’ as French fellbig time for CAPTAIN FANTASTIC during Cannes Film Festival… And in answer to your first question, no it is NOT a superhero comic book movie! Actually, Viggo Mortensen plays an offbeat dad who raises his six kids alone, home schooling them with his own unique life lesson plans in the rustic forests of the Pacific Northwest.

Prepare yourself for an original home-invasion thriller, where burglars discover that breaking into a blind recluse’s Detroit house is a lot easier than getting back out alive, in DON’T BREATHE! The actors are quite fine in their relatively simple if grueling roles, with Avatar’s Stephen Lang that is impressively intimidating… which delivers a muscular cinematic exercise in brutal, relentless peril that should please genre fans.

AND NEVER GIVE UP TRYING!

Missing original fantasies? Well get ready to escape the real world into MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN. Imagine yourself as a 16-year-old who accidentally works himself onto a mysterious island where he helps a group of peculiar, orphaned children, all with strange powers and traits…only to find himself protecting and leading them away from horrible creatures.

As we get closer to Oscar-fall movies, American history has a rendezvous with BIRTH OF A NATION… when Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher,witnesses countless atrocitiesagainst himself and his fellow slaves, he orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom!

Last but not least, we will close with one of Cannes’s rare jewels this year, LOVING… from drastically brilliant filmmaker Jeff Nichols! You will witness one of the finest dramas for this year where love can do better than breaking laws, yet changing them for the supreme cause of freedom… Joel Edgerton& Ruth Negga excel.

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.................................................................. ELIAS DOUMMAR

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