Open-air cinema at La Villette

The open-air cinema program >> 33rd edition

On the programme this year, the open-air cinema of La Villette honours team spirit and the collective: groups of friends, gangs, families, tribes… and It’s always free.

Let’s not forget that next year, La Villette will live to the rhythm of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games!

Sessions start at 10:30 p.m.

• Wednesday, July 19 – MISS PEREGRINE AND THE PECULIAR CHILDREN – Tim Burton – 2016 – 2h03 – All audiences / with warning – Since he was a child, Jacob has listened with admiration to his grandfather’s fabulous stories. His adventures take place in a school for “special” children, where he was sent by his parents during the Second World War…
• Thursday, July 20 – PARASITE – Bong Joon Ho – 2019 – 2:12 pm —All audiences / with warning – Ki-taek, and his family are unemployed and live crammed into an unsanitary basement apartment. One day, their son manages to get a recommendation to give private English lessons at the home of the Parks, a wealthy family. It was the beginning of an uncontrollable spiral… Palme d’Or 2019 at the Cannes Film Festival
• Friday, July 21 – IN BODY – Cédric Klapisch – 2022 – 1h58 – Elise, 26 years old, is a great classical dancer. She is injured during a performance and learns that she will no longer be able to dance. From then on, his life was turned upside down. Through encounters and experiences, she will get closer to a contemporary dance company and discover a new way of dancing.
• Friday, July 21 – THE SUNDAY MEAL – Céline Devaux – 2015 – 14 mn – It’s Sunday. During the meal, Jean observes the members of his family. We ask him questions without listening to the answers, we give him advice without following them, we pet him and slap him, it’s normal, it’s Sunday dinner…
• Saturday, July 22 – THE THREE BRIGANDS – Hayo Freitag – 2007 – 1h19 — Three evil brigands spend their time robbing stagecoach travelers and destroying the carriages… Heartless and unscrupulous, nothing stops them until the day when the only occupant of the stagecoach is Tiffany, a little orphaned girl… Based on the book by the famous illustrator Tomi Ungerer that we love!
• Sunday, July 23 – SOME LIKE IT HOT – Billy Wilder – 1959 – 1h56 — Chicago 1929. Joe and Jerry, two unemployed jazz musicians, get a contract for the Valentine’s Day ball, but they become the only witnesses to a settling of scores between two gangs. The leader of one of them wants to eliminate them… A cult film with Marilyn and Tony Curtis

Sessions start at 10:15 p.m.

• Wednesday, July 26 – ANTOINETTE IN THE CÉVENNES – Caroline Vignal – 2020 – 1h37 -Antoinette has been waiting for months for summer and the promise of a romantic week with her lover, Vladimir. So when he cancels their vacation to go for a walk in the Cévennes with his wife and daughter, Antoinette sets off in his footsteps! But when she arrives, there is no Vladimir – only Patrick, a donkey with whom she will form a great team
• Thursday, July 27 – ARTE GOES KARAOKE! -ARTE goes live and invites you to participate in its giant Karaoke hosted by the explosive Aline Afanoukoé. Come and sing, hum or let loose to the greatest standards of French song, international pop, rap without forgetting some great opera arias. Team spirit is also achieved by singing!
• Friday, July 28 – FIRST COW – Kelly Reichardt – 2021 – 2:01 pm – In the early nineteenth century, in the still wild lands of Oregon, Cookie Figowitz, a humble cook, befriends King-Lu, an immigrant of Chinese descent. Soon, the two collaborate on a successful business…
• Friday 28 July –TUESDAY – Charlotte Wells – 2015 – 11 mn –
• Every Tuesday, 16-year-old Allie stays at her father’s house and hopes that this week will be no exception to the rule. During the day, she faces awkward encounters with family and friends before arriving at her father’s apartment, where her routine is shattered by the silence of an empty house…
• Saturday, July 29 – LES MISÉRABLES – Ladj Ly – 2019 – 1h44 – All audiences with warning – Stéphane, just arrived from Cherbourg, joins the Anti-Crime Brigade of Montfermeil, in the 93. He meets his new teammates, Chris and Gwada, two experienced ‘Bacqueux’. While they are overwhelmed during an arrest, a drone films their every move…
• Sunday, July 30 – IT HAPPENED NEAR YOU – Remy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde – 1992 – 1h32 – Minors under 12 years old are forbidden – A television crew sets off in the footsteps of a bloodthirsty killer who attacks the elderly or middle classes in particular. But, little by little, the journalists will take part in Ben’s crimes…

Sessions start 10 pm

• Wednesday, August 2 – DRUNK – Thomas Vinterberg – 2021 – 1h57 – Four friends decide to put into practice the theory of a Norwegian psychologist according to which man has a deficit of alcohol in his blood from birth. With scientific rigor, everyone takes up the challenge and hopes that their lives will be all the better! If at first the results are encouraging, the situation quickly gets out of control…
• Thursday, August 3 – HORS NORMES – Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache – 2019 – 1h53 – Bruno and Malik have been living for 20 years in a world apart, that of autistic children and teenagers. Within their two respective associations, they train young people from difficult neighborhoods to supervise these cases described as “hyper complex”. An extraordinary alliance for extraordinary personalities.
• Friday, August 4 – DUNKIRK – Christopher Nolan – 2017 – 1h46 – In May 1940, about 400,000 British, Canadian, French and Belgian soldiers found themselves surrounded by German troops in the Dunkirk pocket. Operation Dynamo was set up to evacuate the British Expeditionary Force (CEB) to England. Soldiers, pilots, sailors and British civilians were mobilized. Three soldiers, Tommy, Gibson and Alex, manage to board under the bombardment, with a little cunning and luck. But another journey awaits them: the crossing of the Channel…
• Friday, August 4 – SON OF THE WOLF – Lola Quivoron – 2015 – 23 mn – In a former military fort, Johnny, a young boy, learns to train and dominate Iron, his first attack dog.
• Saturday, August 5 – THE PREY – Sofia Coppola – 2017 – 1h33 – The American Civil War has been going on for a few years. During a hike in the forest, a young girl comes across a wounded soldier from the opposing camp. She decides to take him home, to a boarding school for young girls. Instead of reporting him to the authorities, Miss Martha offers him refuge and licks his wounds. But the atmosphere quickly becomes charged with tension and dangerous rivalries break out…
• Sunday, August 6 – WHEN THE CITY SLEEPS – John Huston – 1950 – 1h48 – Doc, a criminal mastermind fresh out of prison, has just hatched a new plan for the robbery of a jewelry store whose loot is said to amount to one million dollars. To set up his coup, he hires Louis, a trunk breaker, the driver Gus, Dix Handley as a henchman and Emmerich to finance the operation. Will the fine team succeed in its coup…

Sessions start 9:45 pm

• Wednesday, August 9 – LA PETITE BANDE – Pierre Salvadori – 2022 – 1h48 – Cat, Fouad, Antoine and Sami, four 12-year-old middle school students, embark on a crazy project: to blow up the factory that has been polluting their river for years. But in the small newly formed group, disagreements are frequent…
• Thursday, August 10 – A FAMILY AFFAIR – HIROKAZU Kore-Eda – 2018 – 2h01 – On their way back from a new shoplifting expedition, Osamu and his son take in a 5-year-old girl who seems to be left to her own devices. At first reluctant to shelter the child for the night, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her when she realizes that her parents are mistreating her. Despite their poverty, the little girl finds a real cocoon of tenderness in this extraordinary family.
• Friday, August 11 – LE MANS 66 – James Mangold – 2019 – 2h33 – In the 60s, the manufacturers Ford and Ferrari waged a merciless war. Henry Ford II took over his grandfather’s family business with the aim of imposing American cars on the European market. Hired by Ford, the visionary Carroll Shelby and his British driver Ken Miles had to build a new car that was to dethrone the Ferrari in the 1966 Le Mans competition… Based on a true story.
• Friday, August 11 – THE MARCH FROM PARIS TO BREST – Vincent Le Port – 2021 – 7 mn – Maverick Mitchell, a young flying prodigy who is not appreciated by his superiors, joins the renowned American naval aviation school, Top Gun, to perfect his air combat techniques. He falls under the spell of an instructor while he is competing for the title of best driver…
• Saturday, August 12 – TOP GUN – Tony Scott – 1986 – 1h51 – Maverick Mitchell, a young flying prodigy who is not appreciated by his superiors, joins the renowned American naval aviation school, Top Gun, to perfect his aerial combat techniques. He falls under the spell of an instructor while he is competing for the title of best driver… Careful… cult film!
• Sunday, August 13 – THE SEVEN MERCENARIES – John Sturges – 1961 – 2h09 – Terrorized by Calvera and her gang of ruthless bandits who plunder their crops, the inhabitants of the village of Ixcatlan in Mexico decide to call on mercenaries to protect themselves. Seven mercenaries will find themselves immersed in a merciless struggle. Careful… cult film!

Sessions start 9:30 pm

• Wednesday, August 16 – POLISSE – Maïwenn – 2011 – 2h07 – All audiences with warning – In Paris, Melissa, a photographer, comes to make a report on the Brigade for the Protection of Minors, the BPM. Incest and pedophilia, abuse, kidnapping, teenage prostitution, ordinary misery, forced marriage. As a counterpoint to these daily tragedies, there are also personal events for the tense cops, between fits of laughter and rants.
• Thursday, August 17 – ADOLESCENTES – Sébastien Lifshitz – 2020 – 2h16 – Emma and Anaïs are inseparable and yet, everything opposes them. From the age of 13 until they came of age, five years of life in which there was a lot of jostling. Through this chronicle of youth, the film also paints a portrait of France over the past five years.
• Friday, August 18 – PUBLIC ENEMIES – Michael Mann – 2009 – 2h20 – Based on the true story of John Dillinger, an outstanding bank robber who has been active on many occasions in America in the 30s. Promoted as public enemy number 1 by the head of the FBI, John Edgar Hoover, Dillinger will be relentlessly hunted by Melvin Purvis, one of the most effective federal agents.
• Friday, August 18 – DEATH TO CODES – Léopold Legrand – 2018 – 14 mn – An ambulance speeds through the night: an elderly man has lost consciousness in his home. But the paramedics come up against a door secured by an access code and a distraught woman…
• Saturday, August 19 – OCEAN’S ELEVEN – Steven Soderbergh – 2002 – 1h57 – After two years in a New Jersey prison, Danny Ocean is free and is about to pull off a coup that seems impossible to pull off: robbing the Bellagio, Mirage and MGM Grand casinos at the same time with a nice sum of 150 million dollars at stake. He also wants to get back Tess, his beloved, who was stolen from him by Terry Benedict, the owner of these three sumptuous Las Vegas gambling establishments.
• Sunday, August 20 – WEST SIDE STORY – by Steven Spielberg – 2021 – 2h36 – On the West Side in New York, two gangs confront each other: the Jets, white Americans led by Riff, and the Sharks, Puerto Rican immigrants led by Bernardo. During a ball, Bernardo’s sister Maria meets Tony, the former leader of the Jets. As they fall in love, the rivalry between the two clans becomes more bitter… Careful… cult film!