Par Constance Jamet
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Fictions coup de poing, comédies noires pour oublier 2020, les fêtes sont une bonne occasion de partager ce que le petit écran fait de meilleur.
The Great, 10 episodes, 4 DVDs at NBC Universal, 24.99 euros
After having barely crunched the ridiculousness of the Court of England in the favorite, by Yorgos Lanthimos, the Australian playwright Tony McNamara puts the cover with this playful black comedy which reinvents the youth of Catherine La Grande.Purists in history to abstain: this biopic series is playful and preposterous like its tutelary heroine, camped by Elle Fanning, and walks in the footsteps of the fanciful and pastel Marie-Antoinette de Sofia Coppola.The formidable crunchy tsarine of men and lawyer of the Enlightenment is still only a Prussian princess blue flower, just landed at the court of Russia where her husband Pierre III (Nicholas Hoult already in the credits of the favorite) welcomes him withNonvolving and indifference.An attempted escape by Malle turns short, a bear offered as a wedding gift is shot dead, beards cause steams, the popes are not always accommodating...The anecdotal and the comedy of the situation rub shoulders with the big and the little story.More tender than the favorite, The Great offers the same trip to the past to better emphasize the flaws of our modern world.
Killing Eve, full season 1 to 3, 6 DVD at NBC Universal, 44.99 euros
If the desire to browse you Europe itchs, it is time to plunge back into the most unbridled spy series, Killing Eve.This frantic cat and mouse game through the old continent between Eve, an official of MI5 (Sandra Oh), and a completely grove vilanelle wages (Jodie Comer, The White Princess), was born in 2018 under the penof Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the creator of Fleabag.Killing Eve goes in an instant from the most breathless suspense to the most hilarious absurd.Without a compass or morality, but endowed with childish enthusiasm, the Vilanelle polyglot, at the haute couture wardrobe, shows a boundless inventiveness (well decrypted in the bonuses).Hair pin, perfume becomes in its hands becomes fatal weapons.Very quickly, the confrontation between Eve and Villanelle turns to insubordination, in the obsession, a "I love you either".Their two step between Eros and Thanatos is hypnotic.Brutal twists and turns.The third season lifts the veil on the secret organization which employs life.It is headed in particular by the Frenchie Camille Cottin (ten percent), iron grope in a velvet glove.
The Crown, season 3, Sony, 10 episodes, 4 DVDs, 24.99 euros
While season 4 which inducces Diana unleashes passions in England and is on the verge of provoking a diplomatic incident between Netflix and London, it is always time to immerse yourself in the roots of this Prince Charles (Josh O'Connor) so shady,Fragile, jealous and rebellious.These ten episodes which explore the reign of Elizabeth II from 1964 to 1977 saw the imperial Olivia Colman (the favorite) succeeding Claire Foy.The time is no longer for learning power.Firm monarch, Elizabeth welcomes Downing Street's tenant, the very socialist Prime Minister Harold Wilson.The screenwriter Peter Morgan widens the field.Intimate struggles sometimes go into the background to better reveal the divisions that gnaw at the United Kingdom: social offshore, independence hint of Wales, Fall of the Book.For those who would like to better understand the delicate alchemy between facts and fiction that Peter Morgan practices, the bonuses offer fascinating light with the analysis of the reconstituting of Charles, an exhaustive making-of and a guided tour of the department ofcostumes.
Possessions, 6 episodes, 2 DVDs, studiocanal, 19.99 euros
The mounted part is brought.The lights go out.When they rekindle, the groom lies in a pond of blood, his throat sliced.His natalie wife, a French expatriate in Israel, the white -shaped white dress, holds a knife in her hand, without knowing how the object got there.This incandescent and indelible image opens possessions, bewitching Franco-Israeli Polar of Canal+ at the borders of reality and faith.The suspense around the obvious guilt of Natalie is quickly overshadowed by disturbing details, like the strange rituals that his mother practices.Strange manifestations and behaviors add up around Natalie (revelation Nadia Tereszkiewicz).Is she, as her mother believes, haunted by the spirit of Dibbouk?This soul, in the Kabbalah, attacks the living but loves the person she has.Like the mystery of the yellow chamber, possessions puts our Cartesianism in challenge, like that of the police and the French consular attaché, Karim (formidable Reda Kateb) who tries to help Natalie.The realization of Thomas Vincent (Bodyguard) accentuates the esoteric line.Beer-Sheva's desert surroundings evoke a western atmosphere.Through this portrait of an abused heroine, the creator Shahar Magen paints a portrait of a society undermined by political and intimate violence.
No Man's Land, 8 episodes, 2 DVDs, Arte Éditions, 25 euros
If you did not rush on it when it was put online on Arte.TV, it's time to give in to the sirens of no man's land.Brilliant Parisian engineer who tries to have a child with his wife, Antoine (Félix Moati) is caught up in his past when he believes to recognize a report by the JT his sister Anna among Kurdish fighters.Problem: the archaeologist (Mélanie Thierry) died a year earlier in a Cairo attack.Pushed by remorse, because brother and sister had not been talking for ages, he went in search of Syria.Captured by the Kurdish militia of the YPG, Antoine joins, despite himself, their ranks.This breathtaking saga was developed by the Franco-German chain, the high and short studio, the American Hulu platform and the producers of Israeli Solands False Flag and When Heroes Fly, Maria Feldman and Eitan Mansuri.The eight episodes deploy the precision, suspense and complexity of the aforementioned series.And combine war scenes with a cord with a sharp geopolitical vision.All wrapped in a family drama that turns into a spy story where Western secret services, Kurds and jihadists are facing the strongest of the Syrian conflict in 2014.
Gears, the integral of season 1 to 8, 31 DVD, 79.99 euros
The first original creation, launched in 2005, from Canal + revolutionized the genre of the thriller in France and installed in the foreground Caroline Proust, Audrey Fleurot and Thierry Godard.Exploring with realism and precision the mysteries of the police and justice, showing an often harsh but essential social conscience, she also passionate internationally, until winning an Emmy Award in 2015.In the eighth and last French marine season accompanies the characters at the end of their destiny.All verbalize the neuroses they suffer.With great generosity, the screenwriter lets the deepest feelings triumph.Adrenaline falls, but the feeling of having experienced a great adventure with this band of cops will remain, for a long time.
Watchmen, 9 episodes, 3 DVD, Warner, 16, 50 euros
It is not for nothing that the political and activist series of Damon Lindelof has won everything at the Emmy Awards, the Oscars of American television.This is the cathodic punch of the year;After Lost and The Leftovers, the showrunner applies its unstructured narration and its immoderate taste of flashbacks to vigilantes born from the comics of Alan Moore.And shows superheroes in touch with the racist inheritance of the United States.From the forgotten massacre of Tulsa in the 1920s to the very current question of police violence.Just oscored for if Beale Street could speak, Regina King puts on the combination of Sister Night.Pastry during the day, detective at night in an Oklahoma on the verge of civil war between white supremacists and police officers who protect, as they can, the black community.This political reading guided from start to finish Damon Lindelof, eager to question the notion of white privilege.For the showrunner, his saga had to reflect America today, the one that notably allowed Donald Trump to power.The mirror is without complacency in the face of the country's gray areas.
Outlander, season 5, 12 episodes, 4 DVDs, Sony, 29.99 euros
Year after year, the passionate and passionate adaptation of the literary river saga, the thistle and the tartan of Diana Gabaldon remains my cute sin.For those who do not have Netflix, every Christmas is synonymous with a new season on DVD.Here finished 18th century Scotland, welcome to the new world at the dawn of the American war of independence.Claire (Catriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) are installed in North Carolina who is then an English colony and were joined by their daughter Brianna and Roger who left their comfort in the 20th century.Jamie, obliged by his debt to the British kingdom, must face his mentor always Murtagh who is on the side of the rebel regulators at the.This time, the family no longer travels in time and will be at the forefront of a bloody and painful history page that will bruise them in their flesh.
Game of Thrones, the 4K Ultra HD integral, season 1 to 8, Warner, 249, 99 euros
Each year, I advise you to put a Game of Thrones integral under the tree.If I reiterate this recommendation while the HBO cult saga ended in the tears and the recriminations of fans, dissatisfied with an end often felt as botched, it is because the series of medieval fantasy offers itself an editiongrandiose in very high definition.The battle scenes, especially that plunged into Winterfell's darkness, conversations in the dark will have an even more epic dimension.Passionate people can notice a thousand and some details and feast on fifteen hours of existing bonuses.
Chernobyl, 5 ultra HD 4K episodes, 4 DVD, Warner, 34, 99 euros
There too Warner puts the small dishes in the big ones by proposing this steelbook edition of the devastating minisere of Craig Maizin, with a jacket of an chilling beauty which evokes the cry of Edvard Munch.The screenwriter of the last two parts of the Pocharde (and sometimes) comedy Very Bad Trip signs a meticulous investigation based on investigation reports, testimonies and reports of the time.His golden rule: staying as close as possible to reality, sufficiently incredible and appalling, without dark in the most eccentric theories or romantic heroic acts.His miniseries once again shows HBO mastery in the field and borrows from all genres: horror film, human drama, political thriller at the highest of the Soviet state apparatus, entangled in his Hubris.As a scientist that nobody wants to listen to, Jared Harris is overwhelming.The concise box bonuses plunge into the secrets of manufacture of the series and its key moments such as the trial sequence.
