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Series, films, documentaries: in streaming, our essentials of the month of December

2022-12-02T10:32:12.869Z


From Thomas Vinterberg's crazy Drunk to the dark Paris Police 1905 Christmas tale, streaming platforms are presenting well-stocked catalogs at the end of the year.


Disney+

The Amazon Rainforest: Our Land

(December 2)

Full screen

Txai SuruiÌ in

The Amazon Rainforest: Our Land.

Disney Plus / Press Service

The first documentary from director Alex Pritz, the film has been shooting for three years and has received excellent critical acclaim since its presentation at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. It has been crowned with more than twenty awards.

In a “cinema verité” style, this film is an immersive dive into the stubborn struggle of the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau against the (illegal) overexploitation of the Amazon rainforest, encouraged by an association of non-indigenous farmers.

Family Weekend

, a new episode (December 9)

First French production of Disney + written by Éric Judor, the “super blended” family will celebrate the end of year celebrations in an eventful episode.

AppleTV+

Emancipation

(December 9)

This film is “the glorious story of Peter (Will Smith), a man who escapes slavery thanks to his intelligence, his unwavering faith and his love for his family”.

Hunted by ruthless hunters and confronted with the fearsome swamps of Louisiana, he sets out to conquer his freedom.

In video, the trailer of

Emancipation

with Will Smith

Little America

, season 2 (December 9)

Little America

is an anthology created by Lee Eisenberg and Siân Heder.

The series whose first season was released in 2020 is inspired by true stories of immigrants to the United States, published in

Epic

magazine .

Funny, romantic, heartfelt, inspiring and surprising, these stories tell the American dream from the perspective of immigrants from around the world.

In video, the trailer for

Little America

, season 2

lionsgate

Sexy Dance

, Final Episode (December 18)

After five films and two first seasons of a series launched in 2016, Lionsgate continues to celebrate dance by preparing to release a third season.

Welcome to High Water, a high-level incubator for new artistic talent, where danger, corruption, suspicion, desire, grudge and ambition collide inside the halls of the academy and beyond.

Watch out for missteps.

In video, the trailer for season 3 of

Sexy Dance

Dangerous Liaisons

, new episode every Sunday except December 25

Paris, 1700s. After the 1782 novel and the 1989 film by Stephen Frears, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Viscount de Valmont find themselves in a series.

A prequel that focuses on the meeting of the two lovers, in their youth, before they indulge in their manipulations.

Alice Englert and Nicholas Denton will play the main characters.

netflix

Drunk

(December 2)

Four friends decide to put into practice the theory of a Norwegian psychologist according to which man would have a deficit of alcohol in the blood from birth.

In video, the trailer for

Drunk (2020)

by Thomas Vinterberg

Emily in Paris

, season 3 (December 20)

The young American is back in the capital for new tribulations between fashion, love and deliciously irascible colleagues.

At the end of season 2, Sylvie Grateau (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu) left the Savoir agency to create her own firm, and offered Emily to join the team.

But Madeline, Emily's American chef, was dangling her a promotion to Chicago.

Unbearable suspense: the last episode ends on a cliffhanger in which Emily calls Sylvie to let her know that she has made up her mind.

In video, the trailer for season 3 of

Emily in Paris

Lady Chatterley's Lover

(December 2)

Full screen

Jack O'Connell plays Oliver and Emma Corrin is Lady Constance in

Lady Chatterley's Lover

, on Netflix December 2.

Parisa Taghizadeh/Netflix

It's Netflix's turn to bring to the screen the novel by writer DH Lawrence, published in 1928 and adapted many times.

An aristocrat unhappy in marriage, Lady Chatterley begins a torrid affair with the gamekeeper of her husband's estate... and falls passionately in love with him.

Bardo, false chronicle of some truths

(December 16)

This new film by Alejandro Iñárritu stars Silverio, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles.

Supposed to receive a prestigious international prize, he returns to his native country, without knowing that this simple trip will confront him with a terrible existential crisis.

His memories and his anxieties resurface on this occasion until they obsess him and plunge him into a state of confusion and wonder.

Canal+

Rogue Heroes

(December 1)

Full screen

Sofia Boutella portrays Eve Mansour in

Rogue Heroes

.

Canal+ / Press Service

Cut into six episodes, the new series from Steven Knight (

Peaky Blinders

) explores the formation of Britain's famous Special Air Services (British air special forces) during the darkest days of the Second World War.

Paris Police 1905

, season 2 (December 12)

In a dark Christmas tale, the spectator is drawn into a whirlwind of vice, corruption and blackmail in the heart of the morality police and in the shady alleys of the Bois de Boulogne during the Belle Epoque.

Amazon Prime Video

Hawaii

(December 9)

Full screen

Sania Halifa and Oumou Sangaré in

Hawa

by Maïmouna Doucouré.

Amazon Prime Video / Press Service

Hawa lives with her gravely ill grandmother and fears being placed by social services when she dies.

The teenager then develops the crazy plan to be adopted by Michelle Obama, an iconic woman whom she admires more than anything.

About fate

(December 16)

When their two engagement proposals end in failure, Margot (Emma Roberts) and Griffin (Thomas Mann) find themselves together on New Year's Eve. Both believing in true love, they embark on a magical and comedic journey together, only to quickly realize that the love they've been looking for all this time might be right in front of them.

Source: lefigaro

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