Paris (AFP)

They came out just before theaters closed in October, but haven't said their last word.

From "DNA" to "Rag Boy" to "Drunk" and "Goodbye Cons", a series of promising films return to screens on May 19th.

"Adieu les Cons", acid cardboard of Caesar

Funny, tender and acidic chronicle of contemporary society, this comedy by Albert Dupontel with Virginie Efira is probably the most anticipated re-release in cinema.

The film returns crowned with seven Caesars, including those for best film and best director.

It traces the meeting of three characters, JB (Albert Dupontel, also writing the film), employee of an obscure administration who fails until his suicide, Suze Trappet (Virginie Efira), terminally ill who does not has only one wish before dying: to find a son to whom she gave life under X, and a blind archivist, Mr. Blin, played by Nicolas Marié.

Absurd humor à la Monty Python, tender gaze on the dented of life ... Dupontel finds its fundamentals, three years after the adaptation of "Goodbye there", by Pierre Lemaître.

This "burlesque tragedy" illustrates "the difficulty of loving yourself in a world which is repressive and anxiety-provoking", the director summed up to AFP.

In ten days of operation, it had attracted 700,000 spectators in theaters.

"DNA", tears and laughter

A story about mourning and the quest for identity, "ADN" is a drama abounding around Algeria, "madeleine de Proust" by director Maïwenn.

She herself plays the main character, Neige, divorced mother of three children, very close to her Algerian grandfather (Omar Marwan) who, by raising her, saved her from her toxic mother (Fanny Ardant) and from her father "castrator" (played by the director Alain Françon).

But when the patriarch dies, the family is torn apart.

Choice of the coffin, funeral rites ... Everything turns into conflict.

Neige will embark on an identity quest which will push her to take a DNA test and apply for Algerian nationality.

Will this allow him to mourn?

To emancipate from his family?

So many questions raised by the director who wanted to make this film "on mourning, a film on life", as she told AFP.

An ambition that she manages to achieve by subtly mixing sadness and joy.

The film, released two days before confinement, could only be seen by 62,000 spectators.

"Drunk", an alcoholic ode to life

See "Drunk" and have a drink on the terrace: crowned best foreign film at the Oscars ceremony, Dane Thomas Vinterberg's latest opus is an ode to life through an improbable and dangerous alcoholic experience.

The film follows four lifelong friends, teachers in the same monotonous school near Copenhagen.

Including Martin, a depressive history teacher in the midst of a midlife crisis, played by Danish star Mads Mikkelsen.

The gang decides to take their inspiration from a theory according to which the man was born with a slight deficit of alcohol in the blood.

They drink to be permanently at 0.5g of alcohol, from waking up to dinner, and scrupulously record the effects of the experience.

After the first encouraging results of a liberating drunkenness, the situation escalates - even if the film refuses both moral judgment or any glorification of alcohol.

"Drunk" is carried by Mads Mikkelsen's playing, which notably shows his talents as a former professional dancer to the catchy music "What a life", in a memorable scene.

In October, the film had attracted 222,000 spectators in ten days.

"Chiffon boy" on edge

First feature film by and with Nicolas Maury, revealed to the general public with the series "Ten percent" in the role of Hervé, the extroverted assistant, "Garment Boy" tells the story of a comedian on edge, in full introspection.

The actor-director embodies Jérémie, an actor in the making who is struggling to get his career off the ground, while his sentimental life is undermined by a sick jealousy.

One fine day, he leaves Paris to take refuge with his mother (Nathalie Baye) and try to put his life in order.

"In the cinema, I could not find a male hero to my measure. This first film on fragility is a + melan-comedy + very embodied," Nicolas Maury told AFP.

"To be rag is to be a girl or a boy who is aware of the fragility of his intimate fabric, someone torn from everywhere," he believes.

"I prefer this kind of characters. Wanting to raise or help a character, that works the spectator's unconscious".

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