Hollywood's classic romance "boy meets girl" has been told in thousands of different ways. P.T. Anderson's version is probably one of the most original. He revives the polyester-wrapped 70s in Los Angeles, counters testosterone-laden macho behaviour with tender feelings and has found two undisguised and unadorned leading actors in Cooper Hoffman (son of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Alana Haim (singer of the girl trio "Haim"), whose charm is hard to resist.

Paul Thomas Anderson

As a director, Paul Thomas Anderson repeatedly pays tribute to the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, where he was born in 1970. For example, in the porn industry comedy "Boogie Nights" (1997) and the episodic film "Magnolia", which was awarded the Golden Bear and the Golden Globe for supporting actor Tom Cruise in 2000. Despite 25 nominations, Anderson's nine feature films have so far only won three Oscars, two of which went to the historical drama "There Will Be Blood" (2007) and one to the costume drama "The Silken Thread" (2017).

Nelly is nine and has just lost her grandmother. While playing, she meets Marion, who is the same age and whose grandmother has also recently died. The more the two girls talk to each other, the more Nelly realises that Marion must be her mother.
"Petite Maman" could be the stuff of a mystery thriller, but Céline Sciamma is aiming for something that goes much deeper: loss and coming to terms, comfort and friendship. Themes that not only transcend generations, but also break down the boundary between desire and reality.

Céline Sciamma

While she has long been recognised in her native France as one of the great filmmakers of the third millennium, the world only discovered Céline Sciamma in 2019, when the writer and director, born in Pontoise in 1978, won the European Film Award for the screenplay of her feminist historical drama "Portrait of a Young Woman on Fire". Childhood and youth are recurring motifs in her work. The autobiographical drama "Tomboy" (2011) and the screenplay for the animated film "My Life as a Courgette" (2015) bear witness to this.

She can no longer swear and every lie, no matter how small, results in an audible deduction from her karma account. Eleanor has a bad feeling: has she landed in heaven? Undeservedly?!
"The Good Place" is probably the most intelligent and silly thing to have flickered across the screen in the golden age of series. It was made by Michael Schur, famous, infamous and honoured for his gags and scripts for the comedy shows "Saturday Night Live", "The Office (US)" and "Parks and Recreation". In "Good Place", he puts morals, ethics, philosophy and all world religions to the satire test. Not just to the delight of atheists.

Abby, a young circus juggler, wants to go out into the big, wide world. She has no idea what dangers, wild animals, tricksters, henchmen and abysses await her there. Loosely based on Carlo Collodi's "Pinocchio", Abby's story is told by puppeteer Jack, who not only holds her fate but also her strings in his hands. In this poetic adventure, the individual player soon realises that this can be both a curse and a blessing. Because depending on your skill, the strings are Abby's salvation or her downfall.