movies and series as from March 30th

What to watch as from March 30th?

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Will Smith at the Oscars

 

The Power of the Dog, by  Jane Campion

 

 

Coda, by Sian Heder

 

 

La cinémathèque : March 16th to July 31st

Exposition on Romy Schneider

 

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New trailers

Bosch: Legacy – Official Season 1  Titus Welliver, Madison Lintz on May 6th.

 

THE SURVIVOR Danny DeVito, Ben Foster, Barry Levinson, on April 27, on HBO

 

 

And The Offer, Michael Tolkin, is based on Oscar-winning producer Albert S. Ruddy’s extraordinary, never-revealed experiences of making “The Godfather.”

The series stars Miles Teller as Albert S. Ruddy, Matthew Goode as Robert Evans, Juno Temple as Bettye McCartt, Giovanni Ribisi as Joe Colombo, Dan Fogler as Francis Ford Coppola, Burn Gorman as Charles Bluhdorn and Colin Hanks as Barry Lapidus.

 

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Filmzie

These films have been nominated for several award categories over the years but haven’t always received the same mainstream recognition as many of the other iconic Oscar winning productions.

From Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite starring Helena Bonham Carter, to Michael Laughlin’s alien epic Strange Invaders.

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REVIEWS

 

The eyes of Tammy Faye, Michael Showalter

With Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield.

Synopsis

In the 1970s, Tammy Faye and her husband Jim Bakker were a huge success. Their televangelist program The PTL Club, launched in 1974, was a triumph until 1989, when her husband was accused of a sex scandal

 

The movie

Jessica Chastain just won an Oscar for the Best Actress  for her role in this film available on Disney Plus.

Shouldn’t Oscar-winning films be required to be released in theaters?

 

Anyway.

This film tells a part of the history of the United States that we Europeans know little, that of the evangelists and the most famous of them, Tammy Faye, played by Jessica Chastain and Jim Bakker, played by Andrew Garfield (seen recently in the excellent Tik, Tik Boom available on Netflix).

Adapted from the documentary The Eyes of Tammy Faye released in 2000 by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato.

 

The film recalls Tammy’s childhood and her meeting with Jim, with whom she falls in love.

Of course, in the beginning, she backs him and does everything to make her husband, already a crook, famous. Both of them advocate a modern, joyful faith, but above all what attracted Jim is the lure of gain.

 

A powerful woman

 

Then, she reveals herself, starts to sing and becomes as famous as her husband and more loved by the public who perhaps feels more her sincerity.

Modern and free, she defends the rights of homosexuals and fights against the televangelist churches and supports them when AIDS begins. Even today, she is close to the LGBTQ community.

Masterful, Jessica Chastain is unrecognizable, not because she plays very well, (she always does) but because she is physically transformed. Like Gary Oldman as Churchill, she spent several hours every day in makeup to look like Tammy.

Powerful, a touching, independent woman, and the actress makes us love her character, who loved people as much as prayers.

The only regret is to have seen it on a small screen. 

Currently on Disney Plus.

 

 

 

Kamikaze, Kaspar Munk

Script: Johanne Algren

Synopsis

Until then rich and famous, Julie sees her destiny change when her brother and parents die in a plane crash on her 18th birthday. 

 

The series

Inspired by the novel Muleum by Norwegian writer Erlend Loe, Kamikaze, a Danish series, navigates between her life before the death, her life after the accident and all the events that led her to this moment. 

It speaks to us of transmission, passion, love and memory.

On her phone, the last words received by text message from her father are “The plane is going to crash. We love you. Do whatever you want. Dad”. 

Julie (Marie Reuther), a famous fashion influencer, is the beloved daughter of the family, her father’s favorite, her mother’s and brother’s accomplice. 

The day her entire family dies in a plane crash in Rwanda, Julie finds herself alone in her huge, luxurious house with Krzysztof (Aleksandr Kuznetsov), a Polish worker who is busy finishing laying blue tiles in an indoor pool.

Despite friends and the help of a shrink, her despair never leaves her. Julie lies to others, lies to herself, caught in a grief like a trap. 

 

A journey of despair

 

Julie seeks to die…in a thousand ways. What if death did not want her?

From Korea to Mexico, Julie tries all kinds of adventures, the most dangerous ones, learns to fly, and survives a crash in the desert… There, as a survivor, she talks to her cell phone, and it is of course to us that she tells her story.

The main actress Marie Reuther  is overwhelming. This moving series takes us into another world, that of the impossible mourning, the search for meaning. It

It will take you to the gut until the last minute.

Currently on Canal Plus.

With Marie Reuther, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Johan Rheborg, Mads Reuther.

 

 

 

TO WATCH IN YOUR MOVIE THEATERS AS FROM MARCH 30th

 

En corps, Cédric Klapisch

With Marion Barbeau , Jade Phan-Gia , Hofesh Shechter

Elise, 26, is a great classical dancer. She is injured during a performance and learns that she will not be able to dance anymore. From then on, her life will be turned upside down. Elise will have to learn to repair herself…

 

The World of Yesterday, Diastème

With Frederic Andrau , Léa Drucker , Yannick Renier

Elisabeth de Raincy, President of the Republic, has chosen to retire from political life. Three days before the first round of the presidential election, she learns from her Secretary General that a scandal coming from abroad is going to splash her designated successor and give the victory to the extreme right-wing candidate.

 

 

Freaks Out, Gabriele Mainetti

With Franz Rogowski , Claudio Santamaria , Pietro Castellitto

Rome, 1943, under Nazi occupation, the Eternal City hosts the circus where Matilde, Cencio, Fulvio and Mario work as freaks. Israel, the owner of the circus and father figure of this little family, tries to organize their escape to America, but he disappears.

 

 

Cyrano, Joe Wright

With Peter Dinklage , Haley Bennett , Kelvin Harrison Jr.

Cyrano De Bergerac is a man well ahead of his time who shines as much by the dexterity of his repartee as by that of his sword. But persuaded that his appearance deprives him forever of the love of the one he holds dear, the resplendent Roxanne, he cannot bring himself to confess his love for her, thus leaving her to succumb to the charms of the 

 

Aristocrats, Yukiko Sode.

 

 

Icare, Carlo Vogele

 

 

Later (and we are looking forward to it: 

 

Candy, a five night event, premiering May 9 on Hulu, by Robin Veith et Nick Antosca, on May 9th.

Candy Montgomery is a 1980 housewife and mother who did everything right—good husband, two kids, nice house, even the careful planning and execution of transgressions—but when the pressure of conformity builds within her, her actions scream for just a bit of freedom.

With deadly results.

Starring Jessica Biel, Melanie Lynskey, Timothy Simons, Pablo Schreiber, and Raúl Esparza.

 

 

 

After Yang, produced and directed by Kogonada, is an adaptation of the American short story Saying Goodbye to Yang by Alexander Weinstein.

In the near future, where the fashion is marked by domestic androids in human form that are considered nannies, Jake (Colin Farrell) and his daughter try to save Yang (Justin H. Min), their robot that has become inert.

Release date: June 22, 2022.

 

 

Jurassic World Dominion, Colin Trevorrow, June 8th.

 

 

Bullet Train, by David Leitch, adapted from the novel Maria Beetle by Kōtarō Isaka.

Five hitmen find themselves on a high-speed train traveling between Tokyo and Morioka, making very few stops. The five criminals will discover that they are bound by their mission. They wonder who will make it out alive and what awaits them at Morioka Station.

On July 20, 2022.

Starring Lady Gaga, Sandra Bullock, Andrew Koji, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Joey King, Shinkansen.

 

 

Nope,  Jordan Peele, on August 5th.

With: Daniel Kaluuya , Barbie Ferreira , Michael Wincott , Steven Yeun , Keke Palmer , Brandon Perea , Terry Notary , Andrew Patrick Ralston , Donna Mills , Jennifer Lafleur

 

 

Downton Abbey a new era, Julian Fellowes , May 20th

 

WEEKLY TIPS & OPINIONS ABOUT MOVIES 

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4. BEST SERIES & MOVIES ON TV, AS FROM MARCH 30th

 

Mercredi- Wednesday

Arte : Doubles Vies

Two friendly couples from the Parisian intelligentsia love each other, cheat on each other and aspire to fulfill themselves in a changing world…

With Juliette Binoche, Guillaume Canet, Vincent Macaigne and Nora Hamzawi, a jubilant comedy by Olivier Assayas.

 

Jeudi – Thursday

Arte : Le tueur de l’ombre : la mort est aveugle :

Investigating a crime that has gone unpunished, profiler Louise Bergstein (Natalie Madueno) races against time to stop a ruthless predator. Set in the Danish countryside, the second season is as dark and effective as ever. By Jonas Alexander Arnby

Chérie 25 : Shutter Island

 

Vendredi – Friday 

Arte : Un bon flic: les morts ne parlent jamais.

After the murder of a young policeman by a drug dealer, his unorthodox partner investigates in Berlin… By Lars Becker (“Dead or Rich”), a thriller with effective realism, carried by Armin Rohde (“Run, Lola, Run”).

 

Dimanche – Sunday

Arte : Mystic River

The murder of a teenage girl sends three friends back to the terrors and traumas of childhood… Clint Eastwood brilliantly adapts Dennis Lehane’s novel into a film of formidable darkness, with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins at the top.

 

Lundi – Monday 

Arte: Le Temps d’aimer et le temps de mourir

In 1944, the ephemeral and intense interlude of life, in the middle of the ruins, of a German soldier on leave… A masterpiece in the image of its sublime title, signed by the master Douglas Sirk (“Mirage of Life”), at the peak of his career. With John Gavin and Liselotte Pulver.

 

Mardi – Tuesday 

Canal Plus : Vanishing

Arte : Sauvages, au coeur des zoos humains

For more than a century, the great colonizing powers have exhibited like wild animals human beings torn from their native land. In this fascinating documentary, this “practice” has served many interests.

 

Mercredi- Wednesday

Arte : Les gardiennes

During the Great War, while the men fall on the battlefield, Hortense (Nathalie Baye) and her daughter Solange (Laura Smet) work tirelessly on the farm… On the side of the women who stayed behind, Xavier Beauvois makes a film whose silence contrasts with the fury of the front.

 

5. BEST MOVIES & SERIES AS FROM MARCH 30th ON ARTE

 

Jim-carrey-l-amerique-demasquee : Thibaut Sève & Adrien Dénouette

L-histoire-de-la-street-dance-: Jean-Alexander Ntivyihabwa & Jamo Franz

Naissance-d-un-heros-noir-au-cinema , Catherine Bernstein & Martine Delumeau. :

In 1971, Melvin Van Peebles shook up the figure of the black hero in American cinema with “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song”.

This documentary traces the genesis of this hard-hitting film, which gave birth to the Blaxploitation movement, from Gordon Parks’ “Shaft” to “Jackie Brown”, Quentin Tarantino’s tribute to the genre.

Katarina-witt-doubles-axels-et-rebondissements : Jobst Knigge

Des-femmes-au-salon-aux-sources-de-l-emancipation-feminine: Carole Wrona

FILM

Perfect boyfriend, Alain Della Negra

Three Japanese men go away for the weekend as a reward for their assiduous love for the avatar of the video game they are addicted to… Between documentary and fiction, a troubling and melancholic portrait of a Japanese society where hypermodernity and solitude collide.

Le Fanfaron, Dino Risi

Senses, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi 

Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan

 

ARTE SERIES

En Thérapie (season 2)

The release of the first confinement in spring 2020. Surrounded by a new team of writers and directors, Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache deepen their subject, more than ever attentive to the emergence of speech in the ambient disorder.

Watch the two seasons in their entirety on arte.tv today.

 

Servant of the people

Kim Kong, new series: created by Simon Jablonka & Alexis Le Sec, directed by Stephen Cafiero

 

Sacha, Léa Fazer

Felix Moeller : la-propagande-antisemite

Julie Andrews de Yves Riou

Scenes-de-la-vie-conjugale, by Ingmar Bergman

Les rêves brisés de l’entre deux guerres

 

ARTE DOCUMENTARY

Alicia Keys concert

UKRAINE 

Robert-Mitchum-le-mauvais-garcon-d-hollywood,  Stéphane Benhamou

Lee Miller, Teresa Griffiths

Le Drame Ouïghour, François Reinhardt

 

Best movies & series as from March 30th on Netflix

 

Bridgerton saison 2, by Shonda Rhimes.

 

Bubble, Judd Apatow, on April 1st.

 

 

Best movies & series as from March 30th on Prime Video

 

Master, Mariama Diallo, now.

 

 

All the old knives, Janus Metz Pedersen, April 8th

 

 

The Lord of the rings, Juan Antonio Bayona, September 2nd.

 

 

Best movies & series as from March  30th on Canal+

 

This is going to hurt , Adam Kay , on March 31st.

An obstetrician at the hospital, Adam is often overwhelmed by events, submerged by XXL work weeks, vital decisions to make and a ridiculous salary. A daily assault course in which his personal life becomes a lifeline.

 

 

The Tower, Patrick Harbinson avec Gemma Whelan, now.

 

 

Infiniti,  on April 4th, Stéphane Pannetier & Julien Vanlerenberghe.

 

 

Best movies & series as from March 30th on Apple TV

 

WeCrashed, series created by Lee Eisenberg & Drew Crevello inspired by the podcast WeCrashed : The Rise and Fall of WeWork de Wondery. 

With Jared Leto (Adam Neumann), Anne Hathaway (Rebekah Neumann).

Now.

 

 

Slow horses, Mick Herron., on April 1st.

Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas.

 

 

Tehran season 2, by Moshe Zonder Omri Shenhar, May 6th.

By Daniel Syrkin with Glenn Close

 

 

They Call Me Magic, Rick Famuyiwa.

The real story of a legend. This four-part documentary event offers an intimate look at the life and legacy of Earvin “Magic” Johnson, premiering April 22. 

 

 

Pachinko 

Based on the New York Times bestseller, Pachinko is a sweeping saga that chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations.

Starring Academy Award-winner Yuh-Jung Youn, Lee Minho, Jin Ha, and Minha Kim, Pachinko premieres March 25,

Pachinko is written and executive produced by Soo Hugh (“The Terror,” “The Killing”), who created the series and serves as showrunner.

 

 

 

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, by Ramin Bahrani, with  Samuel L. Jackson, now.

 

 

The Shining Girls, series by Silka Luisa with Elisabeth Moss (Kirby), Phillipa Soo (Jin-Sook), as from April 29th.

 

 

Best movies & series as from March 30th on Disney Plus

 

 

Moon Knight, de Jeremy Slater avec Oscar Isaac (Marc Spector / Moon Knight), May El Calamawy, on March 30th.

 

 

Better Nate than never,  on April 1st, by Tim Federle.

With Aria Brooks, Joshua Bassett, Michelle Federer,  Rueby Wood as Nate, Norbert Leo Butz & Lisa Kudrow.

 

 

 

How I met your father, series by Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger, postponed in May.

 

Para/llèles, on March 23rd

Parallèles tells the story of four friends – Bilal, Romane, Samuel and Victor, whose lives are turned upside down when a mysterious event separates them and propels them into parallel dimensions. They will do everything in their power to understand what happened. And try to go back to their world “before”.

Created by Quoc Dang Tran (Dix pour cent, Marianne), co-written by Anastasia Heinzl (Au-delà des apparences) and directed by Benjamin Rocher and Jean-Baptiste Saurel with Thomas Chomel.

 

Obi-Wan Kenobi, on May 25th.

 

 

Mrs Marvel, on June 8th

 

 

Best movies & series as from March  30th on Starzplay

 

Gaslit, TV series by Robbie Pickering with Julia Roberts (Martha Mitchell), Sean Penn (John Mitchell).

On April 24th