At Giunti Odeon, Luca Guadagnino's highly anticipated new film arrives, stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach: a force of nature who admits no mistakes, both on and off the court. Married to an outfielder coming off a losing streak (Mike Faist), Tashi's strategy for her husband's redemption takes a surprising turn when he is confronted on the court by the now-ruined Patrick (Josh O'Connor), once her best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend. As their past and present collide and tensions rise, Tashi must ask himself what is the price of victory.

To coincide with the exhibition dedicated to Alselm Kiefer currently running at Palazzo Strozzi, Giunti Odeon is offering the city a cinematic experience with the documentary film on the great German artist, directed by Wim Wenders.

The film recounts the life of the German painter and sculptor, his vision, his revolutionary style and his immense work exploring human existence and the cyclical nature of history. Wenders creates a unique cinematic experience that highlights Kiefer's language, which is strongly influenced by poetry, literature, philosophy, science, mythology and religion. Over a period of more than two years, the director returned in Kiefer's footsteps from his native Germany to his current home in France, retracing the stages of a journey behind the scenes of his art. An incredible new artist portrait after the work done on Sebastião Salgado in The Salt of the Earth, Pina Bausch in Pina and Buena vista social club.

After the presentation (6.30 p.m.) of his new book, The Enchanters (Einaudi), Giunti Odeon pays tribute to its guest James Ellroy with the screening of the film based on one of his most famous novels, L.A. Confidential. Los Angeles, 1950s. Jack, a cop who is very popular in the city, is appointed as a consultant for a TV show designed to promote the image of the police district. To this end, he organises spectacular star arrests on behalf of Sid Hudgeons, publisher of the gossip magazine 'Hush-Hush'. One day at the 'Nite Owl', a city nightclub, a horrendous massacre takes place. A crime thriller that recovers the best suggestions of the genre. Oscar-winning screenplay and Kim Basinger, who makes a memorable Veronika Lake impersonator.

Luca Barbareschi brings to the big screen a theatre text by David Mamet, inspired by a true story. New York: a psychiatrist sees his career and private life derailed after refusing to testify on behalf of a violent and unstable former patient who caused the death of several people. The young patient's membership of the LGBT community, the doctor's Jewish beliefs, the press's hunger for news and the law's harsh judgement, compounded by a newspaper editor's misprint, seem to be the elements that set off an explosive chain reaction. The media pillorying and the doggedness of the judicial system add up to the moral dilemma in the professional who entrenches himself behind the Hippocratic oath to defend himself against the interrogations, pressures and betrayals of all in search of the truth. So who is the monster? The boy? The doctor? The press? Justice? Who is innocent?

Jury Prize in Encounters at the Berlinale 2023, Samsara is the new work by Galician director Lois Patiño. The film's title refers to the Buddhist cycle of death and reincarnation. From the temples of Laos to the coasts of Tanzania, the spectator will live a unique experience accompanying a soul in its transit from one body to another: the words of the Bardo Thodol, the 'Tibetan Book of the Dead', will be the guide to prevent the soul from being lost in the afterlife. Lois Patiño, a rising star of Spanish auteur cinema, skilfully uses 16 mm film to create the chromatic effects, toning and drooling colours typical of her cinema, creating a hallucinatory journey that visualises the phase between passing away and the rebirth of a new life.