Drama from French Canada. The film has been marketed in English as “After the Ashes,” but “oraison” means prayer, from the Latin verb “orare” (to pray). If you’re Catholic, you may recognize the phrase “ora pro nobis” (pray for us) from the Latin version of “Hail, Mary.” Many centuries ago, the word “orison” (with various spellings) was also used as a synonym for prayer in English, but the usage is now archaic. You Shakespeare lovers know that it appears in Romeo and Juliet, and is in a very famous line from Hamlet: “Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered.” The word was already well weathered when Shakespeare used it. OED dates it back to the year 1175.

Leonor joins a contemporary dance company to unravel the mystery of Oraison, a mythical piece performed by her mother thirty years ago, in the hope of understanding what shattered her. She discovers a ritual in which every gesture summons up the ghosts of the past and reopens the wounds of a lineage.

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Florence Pugh at the East of Eden afterparty in New York.

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The pop diva was leaving the Chanel store during Paris Fashion Week.

Polish short. Literal translation: “Woman in the Sea.”

A woman becomes intimate with the sea. She strips naked and sits on the sand with her legs spread wide, as the waves ebb and flow to orgasm. During the second encounter, she strips down to her underwear .

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Brooks Nader wore a see-through top outside Chez Margaux in New York City.

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Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton Rothschild attend the EE72 One Year Anniversary Celebration at L’Avenue on October 2, 2026 in Paris, France.

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Her dress is semi-sheer, but I’m not sure whether she is wearing pasties. She wore this outfit to duet with Shakira in the Madrid stop on the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran Tour.

DreamQuil is an offbeat sci-fi tale about what our lives might be like in a future when we live almost entirely in virtual reality. The film floats in the ether somewhere between genres. It is not quite a cautionary tale, and not quite a satire of cautionary tales. It’s not quite sci-fi, and not quite a satire of sci-fi. It is, and it isn’t, a 1950s-style story about a housewife who wants more from life, but doesn’t want to lose her family in the process. Its reality is so highly stylized that it isn’t always possible to distinguish it from its scenes of virtual reality. (And I think that’s the point.)

It is rated just 5.3 at IMDb, but probably deserves better. I won’t argue that it is a masterpiece, but I watched it all the way through without reaching for the FF button, and any film interesting enough to hold my attention, even when its mysteries are flawed and its solutions ultimately disappointing, deserves better than a 5.3 in my book.

A woman embarks on a virtual wellness retreat in order to get her life back on track – but with nightmarish consequences.

Banks is topless in this scene, in theory, but I don’t think you can see any nudity except some guys’s hairy ass.

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