Movies that can be seen on March 13

On March 13, 2026, you want to sit down calmly and see proposals as different as The Kremlin Wizard by Olivier Assayas, The architect by Stéphane Demoustier, Cairo Eagles by Tarik Saleh, the Netflix documentary Cover-Up. A journalist in the trenches by M. Obenhaus and Laura Poitras and the solid courtroom drama available on Filmin The accused by Yvan Attal, a bouquet of titles that dialogue with power, recent history and the labyrinths of truth.

THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN (Olivier Assayas, 2025)

Giuliano da Empoli's “novel” seemed to me to be ramshackle and not very contained in its length, although, without a doubt, there was substance in the kind of historical chronicle of the last three decades of the USSR/Russia that underlies the fiction narrated by the protagonist, an advisor to Putin. I think Assayas' film improves the book because it eliminates digressions and maintains the same patchwork structure of a deliberately chaotic story that serves as a portrait of the power of the autocrat, a former KGB spy, who currently rules Russia. It is not an easy film and you have to pay close attention to each dialogue, but it is worth it. After having played the Pope in Paolo Sorrentino's series, any role will be easy for Jude Law…

THE ARCHITECT (Stéphane Demoustier, 2025)

This dramatic reconstruction fairly addresses the history of the construction of the Arch of Defense on the Parisian Champs-Elysées until its inauguration on the occasion of the bicentennial of the French Revolution during Mitterrand's presidency. The Danish architect who wins the project has to fight with the management of politicians and numerous difficulties, especially when the change of parliament brings a finance minister who seeks to privatize the project. The film is what it is, small and for sectors very specifically interested in the subject.

EAGLES OF CAIRO (Tarik Saleh, 2025)

It is already significant that this film has production from five European countries, led by Sweden, where the director was born, but not from Egypt, which is where the story is set in its entirety. The protagonist is an actor who is commissioned to shoot a film about the country's president El Sisi; In a context of intrigues, threats and power struggles among the military, the actor survives as best he can. The lack of democracy and insecurity in the country is evident. It's nothing special, but it serves as a certain outline of the Egyptian regime.

COVER-UP. A JOURNALIST IN THE TRENCHES (M. Obenhaus and L. Poitras, 2025) (Netflix)

Splendid report on a journalist Seymour Hersh who brought to light the indiscriminate murders—including babies—of American soldiers in villages in Vietnam; He is also critical of the influence of the political elite on the press, conditioning the impartiality of the media, and collaborates in unmasking Nixon (Watergate) and Kissinger (Chile coup), which costs him close monitoring by the CIA. Later, he helped spread the word about the horrible torture at Abu Ghraib during the Iraq war. In these times of post-truth and so much manipulation, a film like this is very useful, where the work of journalism and the right to information is considered as the basis of democratic transparency and a mature public opinion that is essential for building citizenship.

THE ACCUSED (Yvan Attal, 2021) (Filmin)

The original title reproduces that of the novel “Human Things” on which it is based. The episode of an alleged rape within a family gives rise to a trial that occupies the second half of an interesting film, with pace and capable of raising ethical dilemmas and making us reflect on the “judicial truth” that does not necessarily correspond to the real one. The case presented applies the same to denouncing situations in which victims of abuse are not believed and are subjected to strong tension for telling the truth as, on the opposite pole, complaints of events that did not happen or were magnified for spurious reasons. It looks very good.

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