All films as from March 8th

Your weekly program as from March 8th

 

 

All the best films as from March 8th:

Oscars nominatons

 

2023 César awards

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Empire Of Light, Sam Mendes

With Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Toby Jones & Colin Firth

Synopsis

England, 1980. Hilary works in a movie theater: a perfect place for her to be in contact with people and to break her solitude. This middle-aged woman is in charge of teaching Stephen, a young charismatic black man, the basics of the business. Although everything seems to separate them, a solid complicity and even a love relationship emerges between the two employees.

 

Sam Mendes’ perfection

Director of “1917”, “Away we go”, great “Skyfall” and “Spectre”, Sam Mendes pays tribute to cinema (like the recent films of Damien Chazelle, Steven Spielberg).

Olivia Colman, actress of “The Crown”, “The Father” and many other films, interprets a disoriented heroine, a bit like the cinema would be today.

Through her and her story with Stephen, played by the brilliant Michael Ward, Sam Mendes takes us to the essence of cinema, its propensity to make us dream.

Besides the nostalgia of the technique (the projectionist, the big theaters, the ceremonial linked to the cinema), the director talks to us about sexual harassment at work and racism. This technical perfection in the realization creates sometimes coldness whereas the emotion should be there. Perhaps a too predictable scenario too.

In theaters now.

En ce moment en salle. 

 

 

 

The Sinner, Derek Simonds

 

Synopsis

In this 4th and final season, investigator Harry Ambrose (Bill Pullman), travels to an island on the coast of Portland for a recovery getaway with his partner, Sonya (Jessica Hecht).

When he witnesses the suicide of Percy Muldoon (Alice Kremelberg), the daughter of an influential local fishing family, and the body is not found, Ambrose comes to the aid of Police Chief Lou Raskin (Joe Cobden) in his investigation to find out what really happened.

 

Review

Bill Pullman, an actor with an impressive career, has this role written all over him. It is hard to imagine him, after having seen these 4 seasons, in a less dramatic part. The character of Harry Ambrose surprises us, irritates us but also inspires our compassion. 

This series adapted from a novel written by Petra Hammesfahr plunges us into the secrets of the police, their victims and the culprits.

Nothing is really simple. The investigations are only a pretext to reveal the flaws that inhabit us all. If the seasons are irregular by their rhythm or their narration, this police series is one of those you should watch.

 

Now on Netflix.

 

 

All films as from March 8th

 

The Whale, Darren Aronofsky

With Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins

Charlie, a reclusive English teacher, attempts to reconnect with his teenage daughter for a last chance at redemption.

 

Et l’amour dans tout ça ? Shekhar Kapur

Starring Lily James, Shazad Latif, Shabana Azmi

How do you find true love in today’s world? Zoe, a documentary filmmaker addicted to dating apps, goes on a lot of random dates, much to the dismay of her eccentric mother Cath. For her childhood friend – and neighbor – Kaz, the answer is obvious: just follow her parents’ example…

 

 

Scream VI, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett

With Melissa Barrera, Courteney Cox, Jenna Ortega

After striking three times in Woodsboro, after terrorizing the Windsor campus and Hollywood studios, Ghostface has decided to rampage through the Big Apple, but in a city as big as New York nobody will hear you scream…

 

Toi non plus tu n’as rien vu, Beatrice Pollet

With Maud Wyler, Géraldine Nakache, Grégoire Colin

Claire and Sophie studied together and are both lawyers. Claire will be accused of attempted homicide of a child under 15 years old. Sophie will defend her. How did Claire, already a mother of two, neither see nor feel that she was pregnant again?

 

Mon Crime, François Ozon

With Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert

In 1930s Paris, Madeleine Verdier, a young, pretty, penniless and untalented actress, is accused of the murder of a famous producer. After being acquitted, she begins her new life of fame and success. Until the truth comes out.

 

Everything Everywhere All at Once, Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan

With Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis

Evelyn Wang is at the end of her rope: she no longer understands her family, her job and her taxes. Suddenly, she finds herself immersed in the multiverse, parallel worlds where she explores all the lives she could have led.

 

 

Women Talking, Sarah Polley

With Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley

Women in an isolated religious community struggle in 2010 to reconcile their faith with their everyday reality.

 

 

En plein feu, Quentin Reynaud

With André Dussollier, Alex Lutz, Sophie Parel

A giant fire ravages the Landes forest. Following an evacuation alert, Simon and his father Joseph leave their home but soon find themselves trapped in their vehicle in the middle of this climatic nightmare. The blaze is getting closer. What should they do? Wait for help…?

 

 

Comme une actrice, Sébastien Bailly

With Julie Gayet, Benjamin Biolay, Agathe Bonitzer

Anna, an actress in her early fifties, is left by her husband, Antoine, a theater director. Ready to do anything not to lose him, she goes so far as to take the appearance of the young woman with whom he is having an affair. But this double game could turn against her…

 

 

Seule : les dossiers Silvercloud, Jérôme Dassier

With Asia Argento, Jeanne Balibar, Joe Rezwin

While living in a recluse in the mountains, Anne discovers that her isolated chalet has been bugged. She is caught up in her former life as an intelligence agent, a past she had hoped to have left behind.

 

 

En toute liberté – une radio pour la paix, Xavier de Lauzanne

With Sophia Aram, Sylvain Tesson

Radio is the medium that gives voice to those who have none. In the north of Iraq, seven young journalists, Muslims, Christians and Yezidis, hand out their microphones to those who want peace. They work for Radio Al-Salam, a station free from political and religious influences.

 

 

Music, Angela Schanelec

With Aliocha Schneider, Agathe Bonitzer, Argyris Xafis

Found at birth on a stormy night in the Greek mountains, Jon is taken in and adopted, without having known either his father or his mother. As an adult, he meets Iro, a warden in the prison where he is incarcerated following a tragedy.

 

 

Femme de mère en fille, Valérie Guillaudot

Marie, Odile and Valérie, three women’s and mothers’ paths unfold over more than a century. Marie, born in 1902, had 10 children in an agricultural and Catholic France. Odile, her daughter, did not want to have children, she wanted to be free from domestic contingencies. In the 50’s she became a civil servant and a city woman…

 

 

Nayola, José Miguel Ribeiro

With Ciomara Morais, Angelo Torres

Angola. Three generations of women in a 25-year civil war: Lelena (the grandmother), Nayola (the daughter) and Yara (the granddaughter). The past and the present intertwine.

 

 

Tengo sueños eléctricos, Valentina Maurel

With Daniela Marin Navarro, Reinaldo Amien Gutierrez, Vivian Rodriguez

Eva, 16 years old, decides to live with her father, a bohemian artist, after her parents separate and she begins to look for an apartment in San Jose, but she has to face her father’s suffering and the violence that runs through him.

 

 

Mary Cassatt : Peindre la femme moderne, Ali Ray

Mary Cassatt made a career out of painting the women in her life. In her paintings, they are intellectual, feminine and embodied, a real turning point in the way women were represented in art at the time. The film focuses on this impressionist painter, whose career was as paradoxical as the women …

 

 

Movies to come (and we are looking forward to it):

Crazy Bear, Elizabeth Banks, on March 15th.

 

 

 

WEEKLY TIPS & OPINIONS ABOUT MOVIES 

BY  MOVIE DIRECTORS,  WRITERS, SCREENWRITERS, DIRECTORS, COMPOSERS…

 

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FILMS PROGRAM AS FROM MARCH 8th

 

Mercredi – Wednesday 8

Arte : Portrait de femme

TMC : Le bal des folles

France 4 : Les chats persans

 

Jeudi – Thursday 9

Arte : Manayek trahison dans la police (série)

Canal + : Your Honor saison 2

 

Friday – Vendredi 10

Canal + : Kompromat

France 5 : Gloria Mundi

M6 : La famille Bélier

Arte : The last execution

 

Dimanche – Sunday 12

TF1 : Wonder Woman

France 2 : Get Out

Arte : Rebecca

C8 : Un coeur en hiver

 

Lundi – Monday 13

France 3 : Django unchained

Canal + : Django

Arte : Un drôle de paroissien

 

Mardi – Tuesday 14

C8 : Appaloosa

 

Mercredi- Wednesday  15

Arte : Esterno notte : Déroulant comme une tragédie ce moment de 1978 où bascule l’histoire italienne, Marco Bellocchio réalise sa première série pour explorer dans toute son ampleur l’affaire Aldo Moro, qui lui avait inspiré il y a vingt ans le film “Buongiorno, notte”.

 

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5. AS FROM MARCH 8th FILMS & SERIES ON ARTE

FILMS

My Left Foot

The painful struggle of a man trapped in his body to emancipate himself… Retracing the life of the painter Christy Brown, Jim Sheridan (“In the name of the father”) delivers a moving plea in favor of the difference, served by Daniel Day-Lewis, masterly.

DOC

Marimekko & Maija Isola – Finnish design conquers the world

A look back at the atypical career of Maija Isola, a free spirit of Finnish design, intimately linked to the Marimekko brand.

 

Series

Manayek, betrayal in the police, by Alon Zingman director of Shtisel (series available on Netflix : listen to the podcast here

On the eve of his retirement, a police officer discovers that his best friend and colleague is accused of corruption…

With a formidable efficiency, this Israeli series navigates in troubled waters, in the heart of the opaque links between police, justice and criminal organizations.

10 episodes.

 

All films as from March 8th on Netflix

 

Reines africaines : Njinga, now.

 

The sinner, season 4 as of March 5

 

You, saison 4, part II, as of March 9th

 

Luther : Soleil déchu, with Idris Elba, as of March 10.

 

Ad Astra, as of March 18, review here 

 

Fubar,  ARNOLD. IS. BACK. As of May 25

 

All films as from March 8th on Prime Video

 

Daisy Jones & the six, Scott Neustadter et Michael H. Weber, as of March 3rd

 

Swarm, Donald Glover & Janine Nabers, as of March 17

 

The Power, Naomi Alderman, as of March 31

 

Salade Grecque, series created by Cédric Klapisch, as of April 14.

20 years after l’Auberge Espagnole, the story goes on.

 

 

All films as from March 8th on Canal+

 

Django, Leonardo Fasoli et Maddalena Ravagli,  now.

With Matthias Schoenaerts, Noomi Rapace, Lisa Vicari and Nicholas Pinnock.

 

Entre la vie et la mort , as of March 8th, Giordano Gederlini

With Antonio de la Torre, Marine Vacth, Olivier Gourmet

 

Revoir Paris, Alice Winocour,  as of March 7

Review here 

 

Kompromat, Jérôme Salle, as of March 10

 

Minx, Ellen Rapoport, as of March 21

 

The English, Hugo Blick, as of March 31

All films as from March 8th on Apple TV

 

Shrinking, Jason Segel and Bill Lawrence & Brett Goldstein, now.

 

 

Hello tomorrow, on February 17: “Hello Tomorrow!” is set in a retro-futuristic world where a group of traveling salesmen are tasked with selling shared properties on the moon.

 

Sharper, on February 18th, by Benjamin Caron and starring Julianne Moore, Sebastian Stan, Justice Smith, Briana Middleton, and John Lithgow

 

Liaison, on February 24. Screenplay by Virginie Brac. Director: Stephen Hopkins

Contemporary thriller that shows how the mistakes of the past can destroy the future. It mixes action with a captivating plot in which espionage and political machinations clash with a passionate and tenacious love story.

 

The reluctant traveler, now.

This eight-part series follows Eugene Levy as he visits some of the world’s most beautiful and intriguing destinations in Costa Rica, Finland, Italy, Japan, the Maldives, Portugal, South Africa and the United States, exploring remarkable hotels and the places and cultures that surround them.

 

Ted Lasso, season 3, as of March 15 on AppleTV

 

Extrapolation, Scott Z. Burns, avec Meryl Streep, Sienna Miller,as of March 17.

 

Tetris,Jon S. Baird, as of March 31.

 

All films as from March 8th on Disney Plus

 

The Mandalorian season 3, now.

 

Unprisoned, Tracy McMillan, as of March 10

 

L’étrangleur de Boston, Matt Ruskin, as of March 17

 

Prom Pact, Anya Adams, as of March 31

 

Peter Pan & Wendy, as of April 28th.

 

 

The Little Mermaid 2, Rob Marshall, forecast on May 2023.

 

Guardians of the Galaxy, as of May 3rd on Disney+.

 

 

Films as of  March 8th on Lionsgate

 

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