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One Shot is a series that seeks to find an essence of cinema history in one single image of a movie. Flanked by theatrical bed-curtains, two women exchange sidelong glances as they untie each other’s hair and plant kisses on each other’s fingers. All the world’s a stage, Éric Rohmer seems to say in his final film, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007), but never more so than in the bedroom. Set in a candle-lit chateau interior, the encounter is simultaneously a coy sapphic experiment and a monogamous heterosexual reunion: with the aid of make-up and a “druid’s potion” to halt the growth of his facial hair, the spurned Celadon (Andy Gillet) has begun to redeem himself, in the eyes of his lover Astrea (Stéphanie Crayencour), by becoming a woman. Captured in an unflinching long take, there is a refreshing directness to this moment, one of...

To help sift through the increasing number of new releases (independent or otherwise), the Weekly Film Guide is here! Below you’ll find basic plot, personnel and cinema information for all of this week’s fresh offerings.

Starting this month, we’ve also put together a list for the entire month. We’ve included this week’s list here, complete with information on screening locations for films in limited release.

See More: Here Are All the Upcoming Movies in Theaters for June 2016

Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, June 17. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.

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Central Intelligence

Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber

Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Aaron Paul, Amy Ryan, Danielle Nicolet, Ryan Hansen, Bobby Brown, Megan Park, Timothy John Smith

Synopsis: “After he reunites with an old pal through Facebook, a mild-mannered accountant is lured into the world of international espionage.

Mubi has partnered with New York's Film Society of Lincoln center to bring online audiences part of their February series, "Friends with Benefits: An Anthology of Four New American Filmmakers," programmed by Dennis Lim and Dan Sullivan. In less than a decade of activity, the four friends and polymorphously promiscuous collaborators Gabriel Abrantes, Alexander Carver, Benjamin Crotty, and Daniel Schmidt have made some of the most ravishing and least classifiable films in recent memory—and established themselves as a school of filmmaking unlike any other. These uncompromising young visionaries share a penchant for provocation, a taste for transgression, and a host of strategies and obsessions all their own. At once lyrical and perverse, by turns hilarious and delirious, their films obliterate distinctions—between high- and low-brow, between sensual and cerebral, between art cinema and the avant-garde—while remaining sharply attuned to the byproducts of globalization and the fluctuations of post-internet pop culture.

A truly original oddity, Benjamin Crotty’s Fort Buchanan melds disparate tropes of American television, queer cinema, and French arthouse to comic and dazzling effect. Buchanan unfolds at the titular army base, where husbands and wives lay in waiting for their men overseas, though the wives tend to occupy their time by attempting to seduce the gay husbands, or the temperamental daughter of the film’s most lovelorn protagonist, Roger (Andy Gillet). If something is askew in the characters’ roving dialogue, that’s because the script is entirely adapted from American TV shows, an off-kilter choice that finds a counterpart in Crotty’s cinematic language, in which seasonal set changes are ushered in […]...

A truly original oddity, Benjamin Crotty’s Fort Buchanan melds disparate tropes of American television, queer cinema, and French arthouse to comic and dazzling effect. Buchanan unfolds at the titular army base, where husbands and wives lay in waiting for their men overseas, though the wives tend to occupy their time by attempting to seduce the gay husbands, or the temperamental daughter of the film’s most lovelorn protagonist, Roger (Andy Gillet). If something is askew in the characters’ roving dialogue, that’s because the script is entirely adapted from American TV shows, an off-kilter choice that finds a counterpart in Crotty’s cinematic language, in which seasonal set changes are ushered in […]...

PARIS -- Abdellatif Kechiche's immigrant drama The Secret of the Grain continued its winning streak with the prize for best film of the year at the Etoiles d'or de la presse (Golden Star Awards) Monday night in Paris.

Kechiche also won the award for best director and best screenplay for his film, and saw lead actress Hafsia Herzi walk away with the best female newcomer prize.

Pathe's Jerome Seydoux and Francois Ivernel were also crowned with Golden Stars for Secret, named best producer and best distributor respectively.

Oscar favorite and Golden Globe winner La Vie en Rose star Marion Cotillard had to share the spotlight with Anna M.'s Isabelle Carre for the best actress award. Mathieu Amalric took home the best actor prize for his role as paralyzed Elle editor Dominique Bauby in "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly."

Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Parannaud won the best first film award for animated political satire Persepolis and Barbet Schroeder's Terror's Advocate was named best documentary.

99 Francs actor Jocelyn Quivrin shared the best male newcomer prize with his Romance of Astree and Celadon co-star Andy Gillet.