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The cinema highlights in July
Tom Cruise (left) on his seventh “Mission: Impossible” and Cillian Murphy as “Father of the Atomic Bomb”, Robert Oppenheimer.
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The July cinema will be dramatic, action-packed to jolly: “Oppenheimer”, “Mission: Impossible 7” and “Barbie” will make sure of that.
An impossible and now much-delayed mission, a history-changing moral quandary, and a puppet gone astray. The film highlights in July could not be more different: It starts with the seventh part of the popular “Mission: Impossible” series with Tom Cruise (60), before a little later Christopher Nolan’s (52) “Oppenheimer” and Greta Gerwig’s (39)”Barbie” want to conquer the screens. The first drama is about the eponymous “inventor of the atomic bomb”, Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), while the comedy with Margot Robbie (32) in the title role of the plastic doll is much more colorful.
“Mission: Impossible 7: Dead Reckoning Part One”, July 13
Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his IMF team face their most dangerous mission yet: track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With the future and fate of the world hanging in the balance and the dark forces of Ethan’s past threatening to catch up with him again, a deadly race across the globe begins. Faced with a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must realize that nothing can be more important than his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most.
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Two years after the original release date, Ethan Hunt and his crew are finally back in cinemas. A Tom Cruise who just doesn’t seem to age, plus the once again well-known cast and a threat that this time even affects the whole world: With part seven, the film series is once again building on the qualities of the previous “M:I”- Film and turn the sliders to maximum in all areas. However, since “Dead Reckoning” is the first half of a two-part finale, Cruise and Co. are faced with a particular challenge for the first time: is it possible to create a satisfactory half-time ending when the actual conclusion of the long-lived spy film franchise is then part two is not due until June 2024?
“Oppenheimer”, July 20
In 1942, in the middle of the Second World War, the entire world is at a crossroads: when physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy, 47) is put in charge of the Manhattan Project, he has no idea what the impact of his involvement will be . In a race against time, Oppenheimer and his team must develop a nuclear weapon before the Nazis can get there. But as the “father of the atomic bomb” he finally has to watch as his invention wipes out the two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – and hundreds of thousands of lives with them.
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With “Oppenheimer” Nolan is not only dedicated to a historically important personality. He does this once again in a very artful way. The film will feature both black and white and color scenes, similar to his early work Memento. As the director himself explained, “Oppenheimer” aims to show the objective and subjective perception of the main character. An interesting trick, with which Oppenheimer’s dilemma is also implemented visually. Anyone who found Nolan’s depiction of real war events in “Dunkirk” brilliant and also wants to experience a star ensemble around Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. (58), Emily Blunt (40) and Florence Pugh (27) must see “Oppenheimer”.
“Barbie”, July 20
In the motley Barbie-Land, all residents are perfect and overjoyed – every day here “is the best day ever!” Above all, blonde Barbie (Margot Robbie, 32) enjoys her existence to the fullest. But the carefree doll gradually realizes that more and more “imperfections” are creeping in on her. Why is she suddenly thinking about death? Why is the water in your shower suddenly cold? And how is it possible that her heels touch the ground? In order to get to the bottom of her existentialist crisis of meaning, Barbie embarks on an adventurous journey into the real world – in the presence of Ken (Ryan Gosling, 42) of all people.
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Loud, colorful and outrageously silly – that’s how the “Barbie” film appears to be at first and second glance. But then he wanders towards the director’s chair and finds in Greta Gerwig a filmmaker who, with works like “Lady Bird” and “Little Women”, has proven that she has a feeling for haunting stories and knows how to tell them with sensitivity and wit. With this knowledge in mind, even film fans who were a bit put off by the trailers should give the flick a try.