Films showing at the Palace in Montluçon

Outings of the week

The survivors

Thriller by Guillaume Renusson, with Denis Ménochet and Zar Amir Ebrahimi. Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes.

Samuel leaves to isolate himself in his chalet in the heart of the Italian Alps. One night, a young woman takes refuge in his home, trapped by the snow. She is Afghan and wants to cross the mountain to reach France. Samuel doesn’t want trouble but, faced with his distress, decides to help him. He is then far from suspecting that beyond the hostility of nature, it is that of men that they will have to face.

Joyland

Drama in original version by Saim Sadiq, with Ali Junejo and Alina Khan. Duration: 2h06.

In Lahore, Haider and his wife live together with his brother’s entire family. In this house where everyone lives under the gaze of others, Haider is asked to find a job and become a father. The day he finds a small job in a cabaret, he falls under the spell of Biba, a sensual and magnetic dancer.

• Thursday and Tuesday, at 8:45 p.m.
• Friday, 1:45 p.m.
• Saturday, at 4 p.m.
• Sunday, at 11 a.m.
• Monday, 6 p.m.

A small miracle

Comedy by Sophie Boudre, with Alice Pol and Jonathan Zaccaï. Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes.

Nothing is going well for Juliette! The school in which she taught has burned down and her unique class will have to be dispatched to the four corners of the department. To avoid this, she offers a surprising solution: set up her class at Les Coquelicots, the local retirement home, the only place that can accommodate them during the work.

• Wednesday and Monday, at 3:55 p.m.
• Thursday and Tuesday, at 6:05 p.m.
• Friday, 1:45 p.m.
• Sunday, at 11 a.m.

The passenger

Drama by Héloïse Pelloquet, with Cécile de France and Félix Lefebvre. Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes.

Chiara lives on an island off the Atlantic coast, where her husband Antoine grew up. They are a happy and loving couple. She learned Antoine’s trade, fishing, and has worked alongside him for twenty years. The arrival of Maxence, a new apprentice, will upset their balance and Chiara’s certainties.

• Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, at 5:45 p.m.

Mayday

Action by Jean-François Richet, with Gérard Butler, Mike Colter. Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes.

A commercial pilot, Brodie Torrance, pulled off the feat of landing his storm-damaged plane on dry land. He will discover that he landed on a war zone. He and the passengers find themselves taken hostage…

• Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday, at 5:45 p.m.
• Sunday, at 11 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.

Win and die

History of Vincent Mottez and Paul Mignot, with Hugo Becker and Rod Paradot. Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes.

1793. It has been three years since Charette, a former officer in the Royal Navy, retired to his home in Vendée. In the country, the anger of the peasants rumbles: they call on the young retiree to take command of the rebellion. In a few months, the idle sailor becomes a charismatic leader and a shrewd strategist, bringing with him peasants, deserters, women, old people and children, of which he makes a formidable army because it is elusive. The fight for freedom has only just begun.

• Wednesday and Saturday, at 8:30 p.m.
• Friday, at 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
• Saturday, at 8:30 p.m.
• Sunday, at 5.45 p.m. and 8.30 p.m.
• Monday, at 1:45 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, at 1:45 p.m. and 4:35 p.m.

Pattie and the Wrath of Poseidon

Animation by David Alaux, Éric Tosti and Jean-François Tosti. Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes.

Life passes peacefully in Yolcos, a beautiful and prosperous port city of ancient Greece, when the population is threatened by the wrath of Poseidon. A young adventurous mouse and the cat who adopted her will then unwittingly help old Jason and his Argonauts in their quest to save the city.

Always on show

TIRILLEURS. Historical drama by Mathieu Vadepied, with Omar Sy and Alassane Diong. Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes.

• Wednesday and Monday, at 1.45 p.m. and 6.05 p.m. and 8.45 p.m.
• Thursday and Tuesday, at 1:45 p.m., 3:55 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.
• Friday, at 3:55 p.m., 6:05 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.
• Saturday and Sunday, at 1:45 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.

THE LULUS WAR. Adventure of Yann Samuell, with Isabelle Carré and Didier Bourdon. Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes.

• Wednesday, at 1:45 p.m., 5:45 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.
• Thursday and Tuesday, at 1:45 p.m. and 5:45 p.m.
• Friday, at 5:45 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.
• Saturday and Monday, at 1:45 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.
• Sunday, at 1:45 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.

CLAN. Comedy by and with Éric Fraticelli and Denis Braccini. Duration: 1 hour 33.

• Wednesday and Saturday, at 1:45 p.m., 3:55 p.m., 6 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.
• Thursday and Friday, at 1:45 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.
• Sunday, at 11 a.m., 1:45 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.
• Monday, at 1:45 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.
• Tuesday, at 5:45 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER. Science fiction by James Cameron, with Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana. Duration: 3 h 13.

• Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday and Monday, at 1:45 p.m. (3D) and 8:30 p.m.
• Saturday, at 1:45 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. (3D).
• Tuesday, at 1:45 p.m. (3D) and 8:30 p.m. (3D).

BABYLON. Drama by Damien Chazelle, with Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie. Duration: 3 h 09.

• Wednesday, Saturday and Monday, at 1:45 p.m., 4 p.m. (VO) and 8:30 p.m.
• Thursday and Sunday, at 1.45 p.m., 4 p.m. and 8.30 p.m.
• Friday, at 1:45 p.m. (VO), 4 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, at 1:45 p.m., 8:30 p.m. (VO).

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ASTERIX AND OBELIX: THE MIDDLE KINGDOM

Comedy, by Guillaume Canet, with Guillaume Canet and Gilles Lelouche. Duration: 1 hour 51 minutes.

We are in 50 BC. The Empress of China is imprisoned following a coup fomented by Deng Tsin Quin. Helped by Graindemaïs, the Phoenician merchant, and by his faithful warrior Tat Han, Princess Fu Yi, only daughter of the Empress, fled to Gaul to ask for help from the two valiant warriors Asterix and Obelix, endowed with superhuman strength thanks to their magic potion.