As before every weekend, Le Parisien offers you a selection of fictions or documentaries not to be missed on online video platforms.
On the program, the return of Olivier Marchal in a violent thriller with small onions, the season of "The Mandalorian", a series set in the Star Wars universe, or "The Undoing", with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant.
"Bronx": black from black
NETFLIX.
A settling of scores between thugs leads to a real carnage inside a bar in Marseille.
The investigation stirs up the rivalry between the two flagship brigades of the local police, whose officials do not appreciate much, and falls when a new big boss arrives who preaches rigor and transparency ... After a "Carbon" inspired by the news , Olivier Marchal returns in “Bronx” to its fundamentals: dented characters, moral dilemmas, the ravages of corruption, blood ties… A true Greek tragedy sprinkled with several scathing action scenes.
All supported by a shock cast, led by the unexpected but impeccable Lannick Gautry, (the mini-series "Le Mystère du lac" and its sequels), around which a few luxury guests like the rapper Kaaris or the legend crowd. Claudia Cardinale.
EDITOR'S RATING: 4.5 / 5
“Bronx”
, a French detective film by Olivier Marchal, with Lannick Gautry, Stanislas Merhar, Jean Reno, David Belle… 1h56
"The Mandalorian": between SF and spaghetti western
DISNEY +.
At the end of the first season of this series located in the Star Wars universe, we left the hero, bounty hunter so moved by one of his "contracts", a baby Yoda that he had to deliver to evil mercenaries. working for the Empire, that he had decided to break his promise and watch over the infant.
The first stage of this journey takes them, in this new episode, to a remote corner of Tatooine, the legendary planet of the original trilogy.
On the spot, the Mandalorian will have to come to terms with a funny sheriff and face a terrifying monster… He is the “boss” and creator of the series in person, the director Jon Favreau (“Iron-Man”, “The Lion King” …) Who insisted on writing the entire script for this exceptionally long first episode - 54 minutes - and directing it.
We find the style, between western and science fiction, he had infused in the first season, but with a slider pushed to the bottom.
Eager for references, which he always handles from a distance, Favreau here pays a touching tribute, and with undeniable talent, to Sergio Leone.
But Favreau does not forget that he is in the Star Wars universe, rehabilitating creatures, robots, ships, mythical sets from the saga.
EDITOR'S RATING: 4.5 / 5
“The Mandalorian”
, season 2, episode 1, American series by Jon Favreau (2020), with Pedro Pascal, John Leguizamo, Timothy Olyphant… 54 minutes.
"The Undoing": a too perfect couple
OCS.
After "Big little Lies", by Liane Moriarty, David E. Kelley (creator of "Ally McBeal", "The Practice", "Boston Public" ...) adapts here the novel "Les premiers Impressions", by Jean Hanff Korelitz, and still relies on a formidable cast in which we find Nicole Kidman, well accompanied by Hugh Grant or Donald Sutherland.
The first two play Grace and Jonathan Fraser, a couple from New York's high society.
She is a therapist specializing in couple relationships, he is a pediatric oncologist.
Parents of a boy who attends an upscale private school, their lives are turned upside down when the mother of another student is found murdered.
It is in particular Jonathan who quickly reveals a dark side.
Each shutter plunges the viewer - and some protagonists - in a growing confusion about the identity of the murderer.
A remarkably tense and disturbing thriller directed by Susanne Bier.
EDITOR'S RATING: 4/5
“The Undoing”,
American series by David E. Kelley (2020) with Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant… Episode 1/6.
51 minutes.
"Utopia": paranoia, violence and conspiracies
AMAZON PRIME VIDEO.
Adapted from a British series of the same title developed by Dennis Kelly in 2013, “Utopia”, which arrives on Amazon Prime Video this Friday, should delight fans of the genre.
The creator of the series, Gillian Flynn - screenwriter of the excellent "Gone Girl" and "The Widows" - pushed the plot of the plot even further than the original series.
While picking up the pace.
The result is a seething series, agitated, quite paranoid but which does not dwell on the conspiratorial delusions as it is the interactions between the characters - very numerous - and the subplots - at least as numerous - which prevail.
Suddenly, you have to hang on, but each character, each detail, each action has its importance in this series which alternates between ranges of sustained dialogue and scenes of fights, struggles, chases, with moments of incredible dazzling, and fits of violence which surprise - sensitive souls refrain.
EDITOR'S RATING: 4/5
“Utopia”
, American series by Gillian Flynn (2020), with John Cusack, Sasha Lane, Cory Michael Smith, Ashleigh LaThrop, Dan Byrd… 8 episodes of 52 minutes.
"The Comey Rule": immersed in the 2016 presidential campaign
MYCANAL.
Mini-series in four episodes, “The Comey Rule” looks back on James Comey's career in the direction of the FBI.
Appointed in September 2013 by Barack Obama, he had to lead the investigations into Hillary Clinton's emails which hit the headlines, from 2015 and until a few days before the US presidential election of 2016. Wanting at all costs to act transparently for the sake of the credibility of the FBI, according to him, James Comey has been accused by many of having favored the election of Donald Trump.
The first two parts return at length to this investigation targeting the Democratic candidate, while the following two develop her difficult relationship with the new president, leading to her dismissal on May 9, 2017. Jeff Daniels ("The Newsroom", "Dumb and Dumber" ) is remarkable in the hero's shoes.
Brendan Gleeson plays Donald Trump, who only appears in episodes 3 and 4. A difficult exercise as the American president is a living caricature, but he transmits his personality perfectly without filter.
An edifying fiction, even if it sometimes has the air of a somewhat naive presentation.
EDITOR'S RATING: 3.5 / 5
“The Comey Rule”
, American mini-series by Billy Ray (2020), with Jeff Daniels, Brendan Gleeson… Episodes 1 and 2/4, 52 and 47 minutes.
