【Movie Watch】This Week's New Releases！A British-Taiwanese Actress Unveils a National Conspiracy

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This week’s new releases include “Official Secrets,” starring British-Taiwanese actress Keira Knightley as a British girl of Taiwanese descent who uncovers a government conspiracy, and “Bombshell,” starring Cate Blanchett and based on the explosive New York Times bestseller. Get ready to catch these films after work or on the weekend！

Official Secrets
 
 
 
The truth is always the first casualty of war.
Katherine (played by Keira Knightley), a Chinese-language translator working for British intelligence, receives a shocking email one day. The message reveals that the U.S. National Security Agency, in an effort to secure UN Security Council approval for the Iraq War, conspired with the UK to carry out illegal actions aimed at manipulating the UN vote. Torn between staying silent and exposing the truth, she chooses to stop the unjust war. Alongside a lawyer (played by Ralph Fiennes), she musters the courage to go to the press, standing up for what she believes is the truth and successfully drawing global public attention and condemnation. Meanwhile, she faces charges of “treason” under the Official Secrets Act... With her life, marriage, and freedom all under threat, how will she fight this injustice? And how will the world respond to her bravery?
 
Release Date: September 27, 2019
Duration: 1 hour 52 minutes
Distributor: Cai Chang
Director: Gavin Hood
Cast: Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes, Matt Smith, Rhys Ifans, Adam Bakri
 
 
 
Bombshell
 
 
 
Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by renowned “Saturday Night Live” and “The Ellen Show” writer Maria Semple, the film follows a teenage girl, Bee, whose mother mysteriously disappears. Bee embarks on a journey to find her, uncovering the complex and tangled past of the eccentric “Bombshell”...
 
Release Date: September 27, 2019
Distributor: Garage Play
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig, Billy Crudup

Infiltrator
 
 
 
Joel Kinnaman stars as Pete Koslow, a former special ops soldier who ends up in prison for manslaughter. To support his family after his release, he takes a dangerous risk by working for the Polish mafia in underground drug deals in New York. At the same time, he is recruited as an FBI informant. Living a double life on both sides of the law, every day is a balancing act. But when a major FBI undercover operation fails and the drug enforcement network collapses, Pete is forced back into prison to uncover the real mastermind behind the scenes—and take down the mafia from behind bars. However, once inside, he uncovers an even more shocking truth. As his life is increasingly threatened in the high-security prison, and with the truth still unclear, Pete finds himself trapped in a four-way standoff between the FBI, NYPD, the mafia, and the prison itself. Who is the enemy? Who is the friend?
 
Release Date: September 27, 2019
Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes
Distributor: Garage Play
Director: Andrea Di Stefano
Cast: Anna de Armas, Rosamund Pike, Joel Kinnaman, Clive Owen, Common

The Con ArtistsJP
 
 
 
There's never just one truth—seeing isn't always believing.
Welcome to the world of con artists！
The world’s greatest con artist team—Dako (played by Masami Nagasawa), Little Brother (played by Masahiro Higashide), and Richard (played by Fujio Tokita)—use unbeatable rhetoric and elaborate schemes to swindle the world, pocketing billions in the blink of an eye！ This time, they set their sights on the billion-dollar top-tier diamonds belonging to Hong Kong mafia boss “Ice Queen” (played by Yuko Takeuchi). Risking everything, they travel from Japan to Hong Kong to negotiate with the mafia—but their flawless scam is unexpectedly thrown into chaos by a genius love con artist (played by Haruma Miura). What’s more, love-shy Dako finds herself caught in her first-ever romantic dilemma！ Who has the skill to pull the ultimate con and win trust? The ultimate battle of the con artists is about to begin！
 
Release Date: September 27, 2019
Duration: 1 hour 56 minutes
Distributor: ifilm Interactive Media
Director: Ryō Tanaka
Cast: Masami Nagasawa, Masahiro Higashide, Hiroshi Abe, Yuko Takeuchi, Haruma Miura

Monet: The Water Magic of Water Lilies
 
 
 
French Impressionist painting pioneer Claude Monet spent over twenty years using the water lily pond in his Giverny garden as his creative subject, capturing the light and shadow changes of the water lilies across day and night, and through the seasons. He continuously explored the perfect expression of color, light, water, and space, creating his most famous series of 250 Water Lilies paintings—some of the most important works of Impressionism. Monet is hailed as the “Raphael of water.” The film exclusively visits the heavenly Giverny Monet Garden, as well as the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, and the Musée Marmottan Monet, analyzing Monet’s obsession with water lilies and allowing audiences to experience the water magic of the lilies.
 
Release Date: September 27, 2019
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes
Distributor: Garage Play
Director: Giovanni Troilo
Cast: Elisa Lasowski