Films as of December 20th
Your films as of December 20th
YOUR GIFT!
In 2024
Millers Girl, Jade Bartlett
Civil War, Alex Garland
Loves, lies, bleeding, Rose Glass
Dune Part 2, Denis Villeneuve
BOB MARLEY : ONE LOVE Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations with his message of love and unity.
For the first time on the big screen, discover Bob Marley’s powerful story, his resilience in the face of adversity, and the path that led him to his revolutionary music.
Produced in partnership with the Marley family and starring Kingsley Ben-Adir as the legendary musician and Lashana Lynch as his wife Rita, BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE will be released in cinemas in 2024.
Io Capitano, Matteo Garrone
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FILMS IN MOVIE THEATERS AS OF DECEMBER 20TH
Pour ton mariage, Oury Milshtein
With Oury Milshtein, Enrico Macias, Émilie Caen
When I married Enrico Macias’ daughter, I had no idea that thirty years later I’d still be angry with him for turning our nuptials into an extravaganza. Watching the wedding film again, I realize that this is really when I started to “start a family”: two sons, a separation, three daughters, another separation, …
Une équipe de rêve, Taika Waititi
With Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana
The incredible story of the American Samoa soccer team, which suffered the worst defeat in World Cup history in 2001, losing 31-0 to Australia. As the 2014 World Cup qualifiers approach, the team recruits a maverick and disgraced coach to help them perhaps change their fortunes.
Munch, Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken
With Alfred Ekker Strande, Mattis Herman Nyquist, Ola G. Furuseth
After his first love, the young Edvard Munch travels to Berlin, where the revelation of his genius is met with reticence from the rearguard. Later, we find him in Copenhagen, plagued by doubts and battling his own demons. In the twilight of his life, he devotes his last hours to preserving his work …
Ma France à moi, Benoit Cohen
With Fanny Ardant, Nawid Elham, Elisabeth Margoni
France, in her sixties, lives alone in her bourgeois apartment in eastern Paris. When she hears on the radio about an association that puts homeless refugees in touch with those who can accommodate them, she picks up the phone to volunteer.
La Fille de son père, Erwan Le Duc
With Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Céleste Brunnquell, Maud Wyler
Etienne was barely twenty when he fell in love with Valérie, and hardly older when their daughter Rosa was born. The day Valérie abandons them, Etienne chooses not to make a big deal of it. Etienne and Rosa build a happy life together. Sixteen years later, when Rosa has to leave to study and they have to separate .
Les Colons, Felipe Gálvez Haberle
With Sam Spruell, Mark Stanley, Alfredo Castro
Tierra del Fuego, Republic of Chile, 1901. An immense, fertile territory that the white aristocracy seeks to “civilize”. Three horsemen are hired by a wealthy landowner, José Menendez, to dispossess the native populations of their land and open up a route to the Atlantic.
Aquaman et le Royaume perdu, James Wan
With Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson, Amber Heard
Black Manta, still haunted by the desire to avenge his father, is now more powerful than ever with the legendary Black Trident in his hands. To destroy him, Aquaman must join forces with his brother Orm, the imprisoned former king of Atlantis. Together, they must overcome their differences to protect their kingdom…
Voyage au pôle sud, Luc Jacquet
With Luc Jacquet
In 1991, Luc Jacquet set off on his first mission to Antarctica. Thirty years later, he returns to where it all began for him. An invitation to travel to the heart of a wild and grandiose nature that has never ceased to fascinate mankind and attract the greatest explorers.
Chasse gardée, Antonin Fourlon, Frédéric Forestier
With Didier Bourdon, Hakim Jemili, Camille Lou
In an uneventful village, a dream house in the middle of nowhere is up for sale. For Simon and Adelaïde, cramped in their Parisian apartment with their two children, it’s the perfect opportunity to take the plunge and leave the hell of the city behind. But the dream soon turns into a nightmare…
Films as of December 27
Dream Scenario, Kristoffer Borgli
With Nicolas Cage, Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera
Paul Matthews, an ordinary teacher, finds his life turned upside down when he starts appearing in the dreams of millions of people. Paul becomes something of a media phenomenon, but his new-found fame soon takes an unexpected turn…
5 hectares, Emilie Deleuze
With Lambert Wilson, Marina Hands, Laurent Poitrenaux
What drives an established man to jeopardize his comfort, his career and his marriage? A passion, all the more burning because it comes late in life, for five hectares of land in the Limousin. But land has to be earned, especially when you come from the city. Here Franck is on a quest for the Holy Grail. He needs a tractor.
Une affaire d’honneur, Vincent Perez
With Roschdy Zem, Doria Tillier, Guillaume Gallienne
Paris, 1887. In this era, the only way to defend one’s honor is to duel. Clément Lacaze, a charismatic master of arms, finds himself caught up in a spiral of destructive violence. He meets Marie-Rose Astié, a feminist ahead of her time, and decides to teach her the complex art of dueling.
Vermines, Sébastien Vaniček.
With Théo Christine, Lisa Nyarko, Jérôme Niel
Faced with an invasion of spiders, the inhabitants of a building must survive.
Mon ami robot, Pablo Berger
DOG, who lives in Manhattan, is lonely. One day, he decides to build a robot, and they become the best of friends! One summer night, DOG is forced to abandon ROBOT on the beach. Will they ever see each other again?
L’Innocence. Hirokazu Kore-eda
With Sakura Andô, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa
Young Minato’s behavior is becoming increasingly worrying. His mother, who has been raising him alone since the death of her husband, decides to confront the educational team at her son’s school. Everything seems to point to Minato’s teacher as being responsible for the boy’s problems.
Looking forward to it : )
The Color Purple, Blitz Bazawule (“Black Is King,” “The Burial of Kojo”) and produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones.
Expected December 25th.
Bottoms, Emma Seligman
The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer and starring Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Ralph Herforth.
TIPS ON MOVIE WRITING
Scott Myers : Go into the story
FILMS & SERIES PROGRAM ON TV AS OF DECEMBER 20TH
Mercredi – Wednesday 20
Arte : La Promesse suivi du documentaire sur le Petit Prince par les équipes de Aurel (Josep)
M6 : Eiffel
Jeudi – Thursday 21
Arte : Clèves suivi de la série Life on Mars
Vendredi- Friday 22
France 5 : Danse avec les loups
Gulli : L’histoire sans fin
Arte : La souffleuse de verre, suivi d’un doc sur Patrick Swayze
Samedi – Saturday 23
M6 : Les 101 dalmatiens
Dimanche – Sunday 24
Arte : La panthère des neiges
Canal + : La petite sirène
Lundi – Monday 25
France 2 : Le Père-Noël est une ordure
France 3 : Downton Abbey
TF1 Series : Le Grinch
Arte : L’extravagant voyage du jeune et prodigieux T. S. Spivet
Mardi – Tuesday 26
Canal + : Les petites victoires
Mercredi – Wednesday 27
Arte : Minuit à Paris
Jeudi – Thursday 28
TF1 : L’âge de glace 5
Arte : Icon of French Cinema, Judith Godrèche
France 3 : Ła gloire de mon père
Canal + : Misanthrope
Vendredi- Friday 29
Arte : Un lion en hiver
France 5 : Soirée Maurice Béjart
M6 : Le retour de Mary Poppins
Dimanche – Sunday 31
Arte : La grande course autour du monde
Lundi – Monday 1 : Happy New Year!
Arte : Vivien Leigh suivi de Gone with the wind
Mardi – Tuesday 2
Arte : Rocky
Mercredi – Wednesday 3
Arte : Plein Soleil
Jeudi – Thursday 4
Arte : La saison du verseau
Vendredi- Friday 5
Arte : Hôtel fantôme
Dimanche – Sunday 7
Arte : Fenêtre sur Cour
Lundi – Monday 8
Arte : Les quatre fils de Katie Elder
Mardi – Tuesday 9
Mercredi – Wednesday 10
Arte : Proxima
ARTE ‘ FILMS & SERIES AS OF DECEMBER 20TH
Films
Le métis de dieu, Ilan Duran Cohen
Played by Laurent Lucas, energetic and tormented, this is an emotional portrait of Cardinal Lustiger, a major player in Jewish-Christian reconciliation. A captivating TV film, also starring Aurélien Recoing, Pascal Greggory and Nathalie Richard.
Compartment n° 6
Full of delicacy and humour, Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen’s second feature, following the acclaimed “Olli Mäki”, recounts the meeting of two solitudes during a snowy journey to the far reaches of post-Soviet Russia.
Moscow, 1996. Finnish Laura, an archaeology student in Russia, has just been dumped by her girlfriend and sets off on a train journey to Murmansk to admire the Kanozero petroglyphs, rock paintings dating back 10,000 years. On this 2,000-kilometre journey, she has to share her sleeping car, compartment 6, with Ljoha, a Russian miner. At first repulsed by his rudeness, his obscene flirtatious remarks, his alcoholism and his constant smoking, Laura, over the course of this six-day journey beyond the Arctic Circle, ends up taking a liking to this young man who is as lonely as she is.
Docs
Orlando, my political biography
How is the figure of Orlando, imagined by Virginia Woolf, embodied today? In his first highly personal documentary, philosopher and activist Paul B. Preciado teams up with trans and non-binary people to deliver a queer, deeply political re-reading of this key novel of modernity.
The thousand and one lives of Jorge Semprún, Albert Solé
Writing and life A rich archive, interviews with close friends and family (his grandson Thomas Landman, his friend Bernard Pivot… ) and specialists (biographers Soledad Fox and Franziska Augstein, essayist Alain Minc…), as well as remarkable animated sequences illustrating extracts from his stories, this documentary reviews the thousand lives of this fierce anti-fascist, who made his memories, constantly reworked, the material of his literary work.
From exile to clandestinity to stardom, Albert Solé paints a captivating portrait of Jorge Semprún, a major witness to the 20th century who died in 2011, and whose centenary is being celebrated in December.
Forced labor, the SOS of a Chinese prisoner, Laetitia Moreau
Based on a helping message discovered in a pregnancy test, this exemplary investigation brings to the European Parliament a well-hidden secret of “made in China”: a system of “prison-companies” exploiting slave prisoners.
One day in Paris, a young woman buys a cheap pregnancy test manufactured in Tianjin, China. Folded into the package insert, she found a handwritten letter in Chinese, titled with three eloquent Latin characters (“SOS”). Translated and examined, the letter reveals a stupefying content: “Dear friends, do you know that behind your quiet life there are Chinese prisoners working in the prisons of Tianjin twelve to fifteen hours a day without eatin
Series
Life on Mars – Season 1 (1/8)
Following an accident in the middle of an investigation, a police inspector finds himself mysteriously propelled back to 1973… A cult series in the UK, with a delightful blend of thriller and fantasy set against a backdrop of seventies rock.
Wakefield
The whole series on 14 November.
While accompanying fragile patients on the road to recovery, a psychiatric nurse is overtaken by his own demons. Set against a sumptuous Australian landscape, “Wakefield” raises powerful questions about the notions of reason and unreason.
The Restaurant, Harald Hamrell, from December 15.
From the bourgeois siblings at the helm to the dishwashers in the kitchen, this ambitious family saga deploys an array of engaging, well-cast characters whose destinies we follow over three decades and four seasons through the upheavals of history, from the immediate post-war years to the upheavals of May ’68.
With a subtle mix of romance and intrigue, and in a historical reconstruction that always rings true (the sets and costumes are magnificent), the series tackles the political and social issues that marked Sweden during the Thirty Glorious: class struggle, female emancipation, repression of homosexuality, the emergence of the trade union movement and social democracy, right up to the political upheavals of the early 1970s.
Your films and series to watch as of December 20th on Netflix
SERIES
Bodies, created by Susie Liggat, now.
Sex Education, season 4, Laurie Nunn, now.
Pax Massilia. Oliver Marchal follows a group of police officers as they track down a dangerous criminal in the city of Marseille, already plagued by a deadly gang war. Currently showing.
The Crown season 6 part 2: December 14, Peter Morgan. Best series of the year after The Bear!
The series inspired by the life of Elizabeth II and the British royal family draws to a close.
And the final episodes of The Crown will retrace such landmark moments as the wedding of Charles and Camilla, and the meeting of William and Kate.
Berlin: December 29
Spin of La Casa de Papel features the Berlin character in an almost impossible heist in Paris. With Alvaro Morte and Pedro Alonso.
FILMS
Chicken Run : la menace nuggets, Sam Fell
The Archies, Zoya Akhtar
May December, by Todd Haynes, starring Cory Michael Smith, Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman. To come soon.
Yellow Door:’90s Lo-fi Film Club, Bong Joon-Hoo, now.
Nyad, Annette Bening & Jodie Foster. Now. Directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin starring Annette Bening, Jodie Foster.
Carol and the End of the World, Dan Guterman, now.
With a planet closing in on Earth, human extinction is imminent. While most humans feel free to pursue their wildest dreams, one silent, uneasy woman remains lost and alone.
Maestro, by and with Bradley Cooper, and Carey Mulligan,now.
The complex love of Leonard and Felicia, from their meeting in 1946 and through two engagements, a 25-year marriage and three children.
Rebel Moon-Partie 1 : Enfant du feu follows the destiny of Kora. The former warrior takes up arms to defend a peasant colony threatened by a terrible regent.
Starring Sofia Boutella. From December 22.
Damsel, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Millie Bobby Brown, in 2024.
Spaceman, Johan Renck.
The Kitchen, Daniel Kaluuya, as of January 19.
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, Mark Molloy. This summer.
Your films and series to watch as of December 20th on Prime Video
SERIES
- Wilderness, by Marnie Dickens, starring Jenna Coleman & Will & Oliver Jackson-Cohen, now.
- The Lost flowers of Alice Hart, Sarah Lambert.
Reacher season 2, now.
Silver et le livre des rêves, Helena Hufnagel, adapted from Kerstin Gier best seller, streaming now.
Escort Boys, adapted from Israeli series Milk and Honey, created by Marc Syrigas, Ruben Alves and Yael Lebrati Attuil. On December 22nd.
Expats, created by Lulu Wang, adapted from Janice Lee’s novel. On January 25th! ,
FILMS
Candy Cane Lane, now.
Saltburn, Emerald Fennell. To come soon.
Un stupéfiant Noël, Arthur Sanigou, now.
Your Christmas or mine, now.
Your films and series to watch as of December 20th on Canal+
SERIES
The undeclared war, Peter Kosminsky : a must-see.
A friend of the family, Nick Antosca, now.
In the 1970s, Robert Berchtold, a close friend and neighbour of the Brobergs, develops an unhealthy obsession with young Jan and abducts her several times. Manipulated, the Brobergs can’t imagine that their friend would harm their daughter.
Love and death, by Lesli Linka Glatter and written by David E. Kelley.
Now. One of the best series of the year!
Starring Elizabeth Olsen, Jesse Plemons et Lily Rab
Candy Montgomery is the perfect housewife. One day, she’s fed up and wants to satisfy her own desires. Her quiet life is turned upside down when she becomes involved in an extramarital affair. The affair turns bloody.
The Killing Kind, by Zara Hayes, now.
London barrister Ingrid Lewis is rebuilding her life two years after a life-changing encounter. Then tragedy strikes when Ingrid’s colleague and best friend Belinda is fatally struck. Ingrid suspects she was the target, but the police are not convinced.
Your films and series to watch as of December 20th on Apple TV & Canal+
SERIES
Monarch : legacy of monsters, Chris Black & Matt Fraction, now.
FILMS
Fingernails, by Christos Nikou, avec Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, and Jeremy Allen White, now.
Anna and Ryan have found true love. It’s been proven by a controversial new technology. There’s just one problem: Anna still isn’t sure. Then she takes a position at a love testing institute, and meets Amir.
With Jeremy Allen White, Jessie Buckley & Riz Ahmed.
John Lennon, “Murder without a trial” , now, co-director Rob Coldstream.
The Family Plan, Simon Cellan Jones, now.
Dan Morgan is a man of many talents: a devoted husband, a famous car salesman, but also a former hitman. When his past catches up with him, he’s forced to take his unsuspecting family on an extraordinary journey.
Masters of the Air, John Orloff, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks & Gary Goetzman, as of January 26th, 2024
Your films and series to watch as of December 20th on Disney Plus
FILMS
Quiz Lady, Jessica Yu with Awkwafina, Sandra O, now.
Anne (Awkwafina) is a brilliant young woman with a passion for game shows. She soon finds herself forced to team up with her sister Jenny (Sandra Oh) – with whom she has almost lost touch and whom life’s ups and downs have not spared – to help pay off their mother’s gambling debts.
When Anne’s dog is kidnapped for ransom, the two have no choice but to embark on an incredible journey across the U.S. with one idea in mind: to make Anne the undisputed champion of the shows she loves so much, in order to get the money they need!
SERIES
Theater Camp, written and played by Molly Gordon (Booksmart film) and seen in The Bear series.
Now and then,written and directed by Oliver Murray, documentary Now and Then: Le Dernier Morceau Des Beatles reveals the song secrets of Paul, Ringo, George, Sean Ono Lennon Peter Jackson.
A murder at the end of the world, avec Brit Marling, Emma Corrin, Clive Owen, en ce moment.
Created by Créée par Brit Marling; Zal Batmanglij.
https://youtu.be/iQudBGTmyDQ?si=Q3JKXqQzXhB-2Bn1
The Bear, season 2, Christopher Storer.
The other black girl, as of September 13th, series by Danielle Henderson, adapted from eponymous novel by Dalila Harris.
Tout va bien, by Camille de Castelnau, starking Virginie Efira, Nicole Garcia, Sara Giraudeau, Bernard Le Coq, Aliocha Schneider, Yannik Landrein, Eduardo Noriega et Mehdi Nebbou, now.
Percy Jackson & les Olympiens, Rick Riordan et Jonathan E. Steinberg , as of December 20th.
A 12-year-old demigod, Percy Jackson, has just accepted his new powers when the mighty Zeus accuses him of stealing his Lightning Bolt. Percy must search all over the United States to restore order to Olympus.
