“The Stranger”, “On Falling”, “A Poet”, “The Richest Woman in the World”… which films to see (or not) this week?

“The Stranger” by François Ozon

Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a young man of around thirty, a modest employee, buries his mother without showing the slightest emotion. The next day, he begins an affair with Marie, an office colleague. Then he resumes his everyday life. But his neighbor, Raymond Sintès, comes to disrupt his daily life by dragging him into shady stories, even leading to a tragedy on a beach, under the blazing sun…

“On falling” by Laura Carreira

Aurora, a Portuguese immigrant to Scotland, is an order picker in a warehouse where her time is clocked. On the edge of the abyss of impoverishment and alienation, she seizes every opportunity to avoid falling, among them the benevolent presence of her new Polish co-tenant.

“A Poet” by Simon Mesa Soto

Óscar Restrepo, a poet lacking recognition, leads a solitary existence marked by disillusionment. Her meeting with Yurlady, a teenager from a working class background with a real talent for writing, will change the course of her life. He urges her to enter a national poetry competition. But things don’t go as planned…

“The richest woman in the world” by Thierry Klifa

The richest woman in the world: her beauty, her intelligence, her power. A writer-photographer: his ambition, his insolence, his madness. The love at first sight that takes them away. A suspicious heiress who fights to be loved. A watchful butler who knows more than he lets on. Family secrets. Astronomical donations. A war where no holds barred.

“What This Nature Tells You” by Hong Sang-Soo

Donghwa, a young poet from Seoul, drives his girlfriend Junhee to her parents’ house near Icheon. Amazed by the beauty of their house nestled in a hilly garden, he meets his father there who invites him to stay. Over the course of a day and a night, he gets to know the whole family and each person’s nature is revealed.

“An Ordinary Life” by Alexander Kuznetsov

Upon their release from the psychiatric center where they had been unfairly placed, Katia and Iulia, two young Russian women, finally achieve an independent life. Won through a hard struggle, this new freedom promises them to finally see their dreams of a new life come true. But how to live free in today’s Russia?