"Hippocrate", "Me, Christiane F." ... 5 new features to see on the platforms

As before every weekend, the Parisian offers a selection of programs not to be missed on online video platforms.

This week, season 2 of an excellent French medical series, the adaptation of a cult bestseller from the 1970s, or a cute modern cowboy film with Idris Elba.

At the hospital with "Hippocrates"

MYCANAL.

A hospital literally under water even before being struck by the Covid-19 pandemic.

At the beginning of season 2 of "Hippocrates", a pipe breaks in the emergency room, forcing the flooded service to move into that of internal medicine.

This chaotic situation is the starting point of 8 brilliant new episodes, where we find the young interns of season 1 trying to keep their heads above water.

Created, co-written and directed by Thomas Lilti, himself a former doctor who returned to service during the current health crisis, "Hippocrates" is a fiction that is crying out for truth.

Real members of the nursing staff also appear on the screen.

The shooting of this season 2 was interrupted from March to June 2020, due to the pandemic, before resuming until November.

The script has also been adapted, even if the virus does not appear until very late and is not at all at the center of the plot.

The powerful result lives up to everyone's involvement, and is a great tribute to those who sacrifice so much year round to keep a faltering health system alive.

EDITOR'S RATING: 5/5

“Hippocrate”

, French series by Thomas Lilti with Alice Belaïdi, Zacharie Chasseriaud, Louise Bourgoin, Karim Leklou… Season 2, (8 x 52 minutes).

On horseback with "Concrete Cowboy"

NETFLIX.

"Concrete Cowboy" tells a true story, a crazy story, a tough and contemporary story, in the black ghetto of Philadelphia.

Cole is a teenage petty delinquent off to the great start, kicked out of all high school, that his exhausted mother sends for the summer to his father Harp (Idris Elba, still of great nobility in the game economy), who lives with Chuck… a nag!

A scenario find in a very real setting, painted by a number of secondary characters.

Like that old man who still remembers the days when stallions replaced trucks in Philadelphia.

A black tradition to ride, to drive these teams.

Some have saved a few stables that miraculously survived it all, despite the real estate ogres' appetite for office buildings.

These are the two stories told by "Concrete Cowboy": the redemption of a son perpetually threatened by the association of a cousin who, him, definitively chose the camp of the outlaws, and of a father, but also the rage to live in a wild territory, perhaps lawless but with a vibrant humanity, which has nothing but the nobility of a few thoroughbreds, surrounded by the police and the veterinary services.

You have to take the time to enter this film, to grasp its grace and urgency.

EDITOR'S RATING: 4/5

“Concrete Cowboy”

, drama by Ricky Staub (United States, 2021), with Idris Elba, Caleb McLaughlin ... (1h47).

In music with "Framing Britney Spears"

AMAZON PRIME VIDEO.

Two months after its launch on the American platform Hulu, the shocking documentary "Framing Britney Spears" lands on Amazon Prime Video in a particular context: the star of 39 years refuses to resume his career as long as it remains under the tutelage of his father.

Produced by the New York Times, this film aims to understand what led its American fans to launch the #FreeBritney movement.

Using archive images and testimonials, he retraces the career of the pop star, while maintaining a bias: the singer is an ordinary girl who has rocked into fame without having asked for anything.

A talented and brilliant kid who was gradually suffocated by the media hysteria she sparked and the vultures - her father included - who took over her fortune estimated at $ 60 million.

Completed last year, "Framing Britney Spears" - whose vision made "a lot cry" the interested party, she wrote - takes a particular thickness today, while the American justice studies a new recourse for question its tutelage.

EDITOR'S RATING: 4/5

“Framing Britney Spears”

, American documentary (2021) by Samantha Stark (1h14).

Laugh fat with "Thunder force"

NETFLIX.

The bigger it is, the more it makes you laugh ... This adage, often used in American comedies, applies more than ever to "Thunder Force".

The film, which deliberately does not make in the lace, spoils us from the start with a scenario that takes pleasure in adding in the absurd.

Two women, who were once high school friends, reunite when they are four years old.

Following a misunderstanding, they will unite to counter the "Evil People", mutant humans who use violence to threaten their city of Chicago, using the latest chemical cocktail invented by Emily who gives them superpowers: invisibility for the latter, superhuman strength for Lydia ... In the genre "we do tons of it in an assumed way", Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer are the pair.

You have to see them trying to slip with great difficulty, because of their overweight, in their purple Maserati of super-heroines: even repeated three times, the gag makes us burst into laughter every time.

EDITOR'S RATING: 3/5

“Thunder Force”

, by Ben Falcone (2021), with Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer, Jason Bateman, Bobby Cannavale ... (1h45).

Nightmarish adolescence with "Me, Christiane F."

AMAZON PRIME VIDEO.

Published in 1979 under the full name of “Me, Christiane F., 13 years old, drug addict, prostitute…”, the book quickly became a world bestseller with more than 5 million copies sold.

It follows the trajectory of a teenage girl who at first seems to live happily between a hardworking and serious mother, an unstable father whom she adores and her group of friends.

A modest life in West Berlin in the 1970s, until it turned into drama.

Because Christiane and her friends, drunk with freedom and refusing the gloomy future that awaits them, start by going out later and later at night, drink, and end up taking drugs.

A slow descent into hell, from hash to heroin, before the young girl falls into prostitution.

In this serial adaptation, Philip Kadelbach films this downfall with great accuracy, and casts an uncompromising look, hard and tender at the same time, on this disillusioned and disenchanted youth.

It plunges us into the effervescence and frenzy of Berlin nights where no more limits exist ... "Me, Christiane F." may well take place more than fifty years ago, the series, pointing to the discomfort of 'an abused youth who thirsts for freedom, sometimes cruelly resonates with our news.

EDITOR'S RATING: 3.5 / 5

“Moi Christiane F.”,

German series by Philipp Kadelbach, with Jana McKinnon, Lena Urzendowsky, Lea Drinda, Michelangelo Fortuzzi… (8 x 50 mn).