Brendan Fraser lights up the billboard with his new film

This week comedy stands out in the offer of cinema releases Rental Familystarring Brendan Fraser, alongside Song Sung Blue – Song for Two, Nouvelle Vague, The Chronology of Water and the animated film for the little ones in the house Holy Mission: Yoyo to the rescue.

Oscar winner Brendan Fraser returns to the big screen with Rental Familythe latest from Japanese director and screenwriter Hikari, a story set in contemporary Tokyo. The film mixes humor and melancholy to tell us about loneliness and the most unexpected human connections. Fraser plays an American actor who finds a curious job at a “rental family” agency, where, by representing the lives of others, he ends up rediscovering his own.

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson star Song Sung Blue – Song for Twoa musical comedy directed by Craig Brewer, responsible for the 2011 version of Footloose. The protagonist has been nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in this emotional and luminous story about second chances. Based on true events, the film follows two musicians who decide to form a Neil Diamond tribute band, discovering that it is never too late to fall in love or to pursue your dreams.

Richard Linklater, responsible for the trilogy Before… (Before dawn, before sunset y before nightfall), directs New wave, a vibrant tribute to the birth of the French film movement. The film recreates with passion and humor the filming of At the end of the getawayby Jean-Luc Godard, in Paris in 1959. The filmmaker, played by Guillaume Marbeck, leads the creative chaos alongside the young Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo, revolutionizing cinema with improvisation and youthful rebellion.

The chronology of water marks the directorial debut of Oscar-nominated actress Kristen Stewart. It has a high-level cast, led by the British Imogen Poots, whose ambitious and demanding performance has conquered both critics and the public. Among others, the cast is completed by Thora Birch and Jim Belushi, who also appears in the aforementioned Song Sung Blue. The film, based on the best-selling memoir of Lidia Yuknavitch, a young swimmer raised in an environment marked by alcohol and violence, had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and has been recognized with several international awards.

Entertainment for family audiences

Furthermore, it comes Holy Mission: Yoyo to the rescuea family animation that is now a little out of season after a postponement of its premiere. It sets out how Santa’s workshop has become a soulless high-tech factory, until a hacker turns it upside down and the toy delivery man disappears.
So Yoyo, a hopeful rookie elf, leads a chaotic quest to bring back traditional Christmas magic.