List Details Violations Across Several Locations

This week's cinema releases are dominated by the strange and the fantastic, with several films exploring extraordinary or supernatural situations. Leading the pack is the remarkable "L'Inconnue" (The Stranger) by French director Arthur Harari, in which Léa Seydoux and Niels Schneider swap bodies. In the film, David (Niels Schneider) is no longer quite David.

The somewhat depressed thirty-something now inhabits the body of a woman (Léa Seydoux) after having sex with this stranger at a party. He wakes up the next morning with her blonde hair, her breasts, her trench coat, in the pocket of which he finds a clue. Her name is Eva, she is an actress.

David must find her to get his body back, but things get complicated. After another sexual encounter, David is no longer dealing with Eva but with Malia. It is as if an alien were passing from prey to prey.

Like outcasts, the characters wander from one apartment to another — the boy's, the girls' — in search of new leads. Also opening this week: "Le Dégel" (The Thaw), by Chilean director Manuela Martelli, with its unsettling atmosphere set in a hotel; "The Dog Stars, a dystopian tale by American Ridley Scott; "New Group, a social horror film by Japanese director Yuta Shimotsu; and the animated film "Decorado" by Spanish director Alberto Vazquez, a drug-fueled dream and critique of liberalism. The full reviews are available to subscribers in Le Monde's La Matinale newsletter.