ADVENTURES.
Completely delusional!
At 8:50 pm, on France 5.
Released in theaters in 1988, this film did not meet the success it would have deserved, despite very good reviews and four Oscar nominations.
This fantastic and burlesque comedy from Monty Python and director of "Brazil" or "The Army of the Twelve Monkeys", Terry Gilliam, tells the adventures more extravagant than the others of an old man claiming to be the famous baron of Münchhausen, who embarks on a fabulous journey in search of four former missing companions.
The character really existed.
A cavalry officer in the Russian army in 1720, his legend was born once he retired.
The exploits he recounts on his return to his village are so incredible that they will give birth to various literary works.
In France, it is Théophile Gautier who will make known the baron de baron de Münchhausen under the name of baron de Crac, the one who recounts cracks.
The cinema quickly took an interest in history, since the great Georges Méliès delivered a first version in 1911. Another adaptation, produced in Germany during the Second World War, is also renowned, and has even been broadcast on French television .
Anyway, this whimsical and colorful character could not leave indifferent Terry Gilliam, who offers us with a lot of magical special effects a fantastic tale, with scenes of the baron on the Moon or in the bowels of a sea monster.
Note, Uma Thurman, in the role of Venus, made in this film his second appearance in the cinema.
EDITOR'S RATING: 4.5 / 5
“The Adventures of Baron de Münchhausen”,
American fantasy film by Terry Gilliam (1988), with John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley… (2h05)
POLICE OFFICER.
Anguish on the phone
Wealthy and disabled woman Leona (Barbara Stanwyck) discovers that her husband wants to assassinate her.
/ Paramount Pictures
At 8:55 p.m., in Arte.
How to tell the growing terror of a woman who, throughout the film, stays in her room, hanging on the phone or waiting for it to ring?
In 1948, the American director Anatole Litvak achieved this feat by adapting the radio play “Hang up, it's an error” for the cinema.
This very dark (and black and white) feature film features Leona, a wealthy and disabled woman, who mistakenly overhears a phone conversation between two men who are planning a murder that night.
From her bed and on the phone, the young woman will lead the investigation, which will summon many flashbacks ... and lead her to the terrible truth.
Behind closed doors in real time, the work raises the anguish by relying on an orchestral music which gets carried away, and especially on the worried, then terrified face of Barbara Stanwyck.
In this complex criminal intrigue, the actress is formidable as a tortured and tyrannical woman, facing a deliciously opportunistic Burt Lancaster.
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EDITOR'S RATING: 4/5
“Hang up, it's an error”,
American film noir directed by Anatole Litvak (1948), with Burt Lancaster, Barbara Stanwyck, Ann Richards… (1h29)
DRAMA.
Young and innocent
At 9:05 pm, on France 2.
He was only 16 years old and just wanted to go home.
Patrick Dils nevertheless spent fifteen years in prison for the murder of two children in Montigny-lès-Metz (Moselle), in 1986, before being exonerated in 2002. Victim of one of the most resounding judicial errors of the history of France, the one who has already signed two books has accepted that his drama be brought to the screen on France 2 in 2016.
In "I just wanted to go home", rebroadcast this evening, the actor Yves Rénier, here in the realization, does not avoid the wanderings or the violence suffered by the teenager during his detention.
But it focuses above all on the fight of a mother (Mathilde Seigner, surprising and almost unrecognizable), that of Jacqueline Dils, desperate to prove the innocence of her son.
The latter is interpreted with accuracy by Thomas Mustin ("White Zone", "the Truce").
A service that was appreciated by nearly 4 million viewers during the first broadcast of the TV movie, in January 2018.
EDITOR'S RATING: 4/5
“I just wanted to go home”,
French TV movie by Yves Rénier (2017), with Mathilde Seigner, Thomas Mustin, Jean-Claude Leguay… (1h35)
DOCUMENTARY.
The Alps, a whole story
An unprecedented documentary on the Alps, a once inaccessible massif that has transformed in a century. / Morgane Production
At 9:05 pm, on France 3.
Do you miss winter sports?
Don't hesitate to go and fill up on powder snow on France 3 with this original documentary on the Alps.
But beware: if snow and summits are present, the purpose here is much more historical than fun.
In an hour and a half, you will discover why and how this massif has transformed in a century, going from isolated and inaccessible territory to a small paradise overcrowded in season for lovers of skiing and board sports.
A radical change which began to take place after World War II, with the policy of major works and the construction of dams, and continued with the development of mass tourism in the 1970s.
Essentially built on archive images and testimonies from residents, this interesting program reveals a little behind the scenes of this extraordinary change, without hiding anything from the human tragedies that have accompanied it, such as the disappearance under water. from the village of Tignes (Savoie), in 1952.
EDITOR'S RATING: 3/5
“The Great Saga of our mountains: the Alps”, an
unreleased French documentary by Frédéric Brunnquell.
(1h34)
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THRILLER.
The grandpa robbers
At 9.15 p.m., on C8.
The coup of delinquents out of their retirement homes, we had already done in 2017 with "Old fashioned robbery".
“Gentlemen Burglars” exploits the vein, still with Michael Caine, here in the company of Tom Courtenay (“Doctor Zhivago”) and Jim Broadbent (“Harry Potter”).
These grandpas are British, by turns dandies or salacious, and despite their artificial hips, their hearing aid and their type 2 diabetes, they embark on a heist worth several million pounds… The film lacks a little rhythm, but the dialogues are tasty and we follow with pleasure the shouts and betrayals of these criminals in berets and fleece jackets.
And Michael Caine, 86, remains very "charming".
EDITOR'S RATING: 3/5
“Burglar Gentlemen”,
British comedy by James Marsh (2019), with Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, Jim Broadbent… (1h46)