Mom must be burned, 15/18, Scrooge: what’s new at the cinema this week

What to see in theaters this Wednesday, November 11, 2026.

THE EVENT
MOM NEEDS TO BURN ★★☆☆☆

By Albert Dupontel

The essentials

Albert Dupontel brings together siblings around their mother’s coffin. A very theatrical behind closed doors with an impeccable cast, where the dark humor is unfortunately diluted in a sentimentalism that is a little too wise.

Albert Dupontel returns with the black comedy Mom must be burned, a little object that confuses the issue a little more: in a family of undertakers, two sisters and a brother meet for their mother’s funeral. But the staff, on strike, refuse to carry out the cremation… From Dupontel to the bone, a little funny but above all very sentimental, where the theatrical device is perfectly assumed and which refuses any demonstration of force on the staging side. A rather delightful cinema project on paper, which nevertheless clashes with its clean lyricism and its sometimes soothing dialogues