What to devour on Crave? Here are some suggestions from our journalists.
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lost illusions
The director of when i was a singer and of Daisy, Xavier Giannoli, offers a sumptuous fresco by visibly having the means of his ambitions, his vision oflost illusions remains much more romantic than academic. And is anchored in a very contemporary spirit. In line with Cyrano de Bergerac, Ridiculous and others Queen Margotwe will write lost illusions among the great classics of French historical cinema.
Marc-Andre Lussier
The Last Tourist
Too many people in the same place at the same time. Infrastructure that harms local communities. Animals and children exploited for selfies. The Last Tourist dissects mass tourism in its worst ways. This confronting documentary also offers ways to travel in a more ecological and equitable way.
Alexandre Vigneault
The Sex Lives of College Girls
Huge love for comedy The Sex Lives of College Girls from HBO. Sex Lives About a year old, but hey. Good television does not have an expiration date. The second season would be released in late 2022 or early 2023. It’s funny, moving, and filled with punchy dialogue.
Hugo Dumas
Three times nothing
Filmmakers like Ken Loach or the Dardenne brothers make social cinema by tackling the themes they explore head-on, using fiction to expose a reality in a stripped-down way, as close as possible to the truth. Others prefer to deliver a social message through a story constructed to combine both entertainment and reflection. This is the path that Nadège Loiseau has chosen with her dramatic comedy Three times nothing. And it works.
Marc-Andre Lussier
Industry, season 2
The second season ofIndustry (industry), offered in French and English on the Crave platform, is great. Do we understand all his opaque language about transactions that take place on the floor of a powerful investment bank? No really not. Indecipherable economic gibberish, which surprisingly does not put off. At the end of each episode, the compulsion pushes us to trigger the next one, and the next one, and the next one.
Hugo Dumas
The Staircase
What ? A series of fiction on a “real crime” of which we already know the outcome? Yes, sir, yes, madam. And it’s great. This eight-episode production revisits the bizarre death of the wife (Toni Collette) of a well-known writer (Colin Firth) from North Carolina. Did the victim tumble down the steps or was she coldly murdered by her husband who was leading a double life? The extended family is torn apart and unexpected twists and turns make us doubt each of the elements of the trial, even today.
Charlotte Cardin: The Phoenix Experience
After performing 13 sold-out shows at the MTelus and setting the Plains of Abraham alight at the Festival d’été de Québec earlier this summer, Charlotte Cardin is offering something infinitely more intimate. Originally offered in Spring 2021 to mark the release of the album phoenixthis immersive performance comes in 15 magnificent tableaux, created by Sebaztian.
Marc-Andre Lemieux
Ouistreham
The way in which Emmanuel Carrère approaches the question of ethics sometimes sacrifices a sense of nuance in favor of fiction (the writer finds herself at the heart of an emotional betrayal that she would no doubt have avoided in reality), but Ouistreham has the great merit of exposing, with great authenticity, the lives of these people who are too often invisible in the eyes of society and its political stakes.
Marc-Andre Lussier
Parallel mothers
Sober and serious, often moving, madres paralelas (Parallel mothers) is not immediately one of the most spectacular films by the cantor of the Movida, but it proceeds from a profound exploration of all aspects of human nature. Penélope Cruz also finds there one of her greatest roles.
Marc-Andre Lussier