COMING SOON AT THE BEACH CINEMA
Thursday May 14
SHINKANSEN DAIBAKUHA (Super Express 109) de Junya Sato
1975, 2h32, Japan
Board the Shinkansen among the 1,500 passengers launched at full speed between Tokyo and Hakata. But be careful, the trip could be fatal. A bomb placed under the train by a terrorist threatens to explode if the train goes below 80 km/h. While a ransom of 5 million dollars is demanded, the entire country is on alert.
Why (re)watch this film?
You liked Speed ? The cult 1990s thriller starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock is directly inspired by Super Express 109. Its director, Jan de Bont, was inspired by the story and visual elements, while moving the action to a bus. With Super Express 109Junya Sato became a reference filmmaker in Japanese action films in 1975
In the presence of Kota Saka (Toei Company, ltd.).
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FRIDAY MAY 15
THE WHIMPS OF THE CHILD KING by Michel Leclerc
2026, 1h58, France – PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE
1651. Louis (not yet XIV) is a young adolescent. While the Fronde threatens, his mother Anne of Austria decides to exfiltrate her son to shelter him and replaces him with a double. Louis is entrusted by D’Artagnan to Cyrano de Bergerac who hides him within the theater troupe of Madeleine Béjart and Molière.
While Madeleine and Cyrano discover a common passion for the young Molière, Louis discovers life and its pleasures, art and work, courage and strategy, everything that will make him the Sun King.
Why see this film?
The day after its screening in a Special Session for festival-goers, The Whims of the Child King opens to the general public on the beach, in the presence of the director, Michel Leclerc, and the actors Artus, Franck Dubosc, Julia Piaton, Doria Tillier, Suzanne de Baecque, Niels Hamel-Brochen and Nemo Schiffman. The perfect opportunity to discover this film at the crossroads of genres, between romantic comedy, coming-of-age story and period film.
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SATURDAY MAY 16
A MAN AND A WOMAN de Claude Lelouch
1966, 1h42, France
Inconsolable since the death of her stuntman husband, Anne meets Jean-Louis, a car racer whose wife allowed herself to die out of despair. They love each other, push each other away, find each other again and love each other again.
Why (re)watch this film?
Après s’être exposé en double affiche du Festival en 2025, A man and a woman returns to the Cannes Film Festival with its director, Claude Lelouch. And what better screen than that of the Cinéma de la plage, when we know that the filmmaker had the idea for the film on the sand of Deauville? A man and a woman he was awarded the Palme d’or in 1966, ex æquo avec Ladies & Gentlemen by Pietro Germi, which will be screened on the beach on May 21.
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SUNDAY MAY 17
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN of Alan J. Pakula
1976, 2:18 a.m., United States
Two journalists at the Washington Post, Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman), are put on the trail of a state scandal. In the middle of the 1972 presidential campaign, a mysterious informant told them that the headquarters of the Democratic Party had been wiretapped. Their investigation takes them to the highest level in the country.
Why (re)watch this film?
The President’s Men keeps us in suspense by shedding light on the Watergate political scandal. Led by a legendary acting duo, this great classic of the political film can be discovered in a restored 8K version with meticulous work on the precision of the image, with enhanced colors and contrasts.
In the presence of the Park Circus team.
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MONDAY MAY 18
LONG LIVE MARY! by Louis Malle
1965, 2h02, France / Italy
In a Central American country called San Miguel at the beginning of the 20th century, Maria I and Maria II meet, who form a theatrical duo before embarking on the revolutionary struggle. A surprising variation on the Revolution, between comedy and western, with Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot.
Why (re)watch this film?
Long live Mary! occupies a special place in Louis Malle’s filmography. After Elevator for the scaffold, Zazie in the metro et The Wispthe 33-year-old filmmaker surprises with a singular work, between a jubilant musical spectacle and a western filmed in Mexico against a backdrop of revolution.
In the presence of Nicolas Seydoux, president of Gaumont. This screening is co-organized with the City of Cannes, whose mayor, David Lisnard, will unveil a plaque in the name of Brigitte Bardot on Macé Beach.
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TUESDAY MAY 19
LAND AND FREEDOM de Ken Loach
1995, 1h49, United Kingdom/Spain/Germany
In 1936, in the first days of the Spanish Civil War, David, an unemployed young man, left Liverpool to join the fight against fascism. He joined an international section of the Republican militia on the Aragon front and alongside his comrades, he experienced the passions of war. When he returns to Barcelona, he finds himself torn between his loyalty to the Communist Party and his new love, Blanca.
Why (re)watch this film?
Multi récompensé à Cannes, auréolé de deux Palmes d’or (The Wind rises in 2006 and Me, Daniel Blake ten years later), Ken Loach will be on the beach to accompany the restored version of Land and Freedom. In Competition in 1995, this film bridges the gap between the filmmaker’s native England and Spain in the midst of the civil war, just as the author on whom it is inspired, George Orwell, did in Homage to Catalonia.
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WEDNESDAY MAY 20
RAISING CROWS by Carlos Saura
1976, 1h45, Spain
Ana, 9 years old, lives in a dark mansion in the center of Madrid. After losing both parents, she is entrusted to her strict aunt, Paulina, with her two sisters. But Ana is not a child like the others. She lives in a universe where the border between reality, memory and fantasy is almost non-existent. Convinced that she has power over life and death, Ana constantly invokes the presence of her deceased mother to support the solitude and rigidity of the adult world.
Why (re)watch this film?
Raise crows has continued to haunt and fascinate generations of film buffs and filmmakers since its Special Jury Grand Prize in 1976. An indelible marker of this film by the late Carlos Saura, the song Why are you leaving? will be performed live at the Cinéma de la plage by Jeanette, who performs this iconic song in the film’s soundtrack.
In the presence of the director’s children, Antonio and Anne Saura.
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THURSDAY MAY 21
SIGNORE & SIGNORI (These Gentlemen, Ladies) by Pietro Germi
1966, 2:00 a.m., Italy
Tony Gasparini confides to his friend and doctor, Professor Castellani, his private troubles. He believes that the best remedy is to take his friend to a party. To do this, he does not hesitate to throw him into the arms of his wife, Noemi. But now the biggest gossip peddler in Treviso, Scarabello, tells Castellani that in reality, Gasparini’s alleged infirmity is for him only an opportune alibi…
Why (re)watch this film?
Because it’s a comedy like only Italian cinema knows how to make. Between chic hypocrisy, infidelity and very discreet desires, in this film, the Italian bourgeoisie drops the mask… and the rest. Lies, deceptions and biting satire: when respectability slips, everything becomes deliciously scandalous. This film earned Pietro Germi a Palme d’Or, tied with Claude Lelouch for A man and a woman.
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FRIDAY MAY 22
I HATE ACTORS by Gérard Krawczyk
1986, 1h30, France
In Hollywood, in the 1940s, a film shoot is torn between its tyrannical producer, its paranoid director, its star who has been engaged twenty-four times, its actor who refuses to age, and a strange case of serial murders. A zany satire on the golden age of Hollywood in the presence of the director for the 40th anniversary of its release.
Why (re)watch this film?
For the pleasure of seeing Jean Poiret, Michel Blanc, Bernard Blier and Michel Galabru play, actors who are difficult to hate. Its director, Gérard Krawczyk (Fanfan the Tulip, Summer on a gentle slope, Taxi 2, 3 et 4) will accompany the screening of this comedy, his first feature film.
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SATURDAY MAY 23
MY UNCLE by Jacques Tati
1958, 1h56, France
Facing his sister, his brother-in-law and his nephew who live in an ultra-modern house, Hulot lives on the top floor of an old house in the Parisian suburbs. For his family, it is high time to finally find him a real job, a partner and a home. In this first color film, Tati shares his sympathy for childhood, dogs and working-class neighborhoods. He questions, through laughter, our way of to inhabit space and everyday life, enjoys the idea of social success, in a world that is transformed, destroyed and built at all costs.
Why (re)watch this film?
The Cinéma de la plage completes its cycle of discoveries and rediscoveries with the infinite poetry of Jacques Tati. At the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, My Uncle is one of the most anticipated films and shows the completion of Tati’s work, after Jour de fête et Monsieur Hulot’s Holidays. A refined style, a childish cheerfulness and a funniness specific to the filmmaker, to be savored during this last session under the stars.
In the presence of Macha Makeïeff and Jérôme Deschamps, founders of Films de Mon Oncle, and Juliette Hochart, catalog director, Studiocanal.
