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Classic Chaos: Woodstock 99
Almost a year later Woodstock 99: Peace, Love and Rage, produced by HBO and relayed by Crave, the debacle of the (sadly) famous festival inspires a new documentary, this time on Netflix. Divided into three particularly dense one-hour episodes, the series Classic Chaos: Woodstock 99 (aptly titled Clusterf**k: Woodstock ’99 in the original English version) fascinates us, disgusts us and shocks us. Directed by Jamie Crawford, it exposes the gaping flaws in the organization of the rendezvous, and shows how the crass incompetence of those in charge (who continue to practice, two decades later, an acute form of willful blindness) has engendered a cocktail of riots, destruction and sexual assault.
Netflix, from Wednesday
The safe bet
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Charlotte Cardin: The Phoenix Experience
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 phoenix, this immersive performance comes in 15 magnificent tableaux, created by Sebaztian. The singer-songwriter offers refined versions of songs like Meaningless, Passive Aggressive (less danceable, but just as catchy), romeo, I leave, Anyone Who Loves Me (magnificent, enriched with a choir), girl hand and Sneaks.
Crave, from Tuesday
Movie theater
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Baby sitter
Baby sitter
Monia Chokri’s second feature film, this half-fantasy, half-realistic comedy-drama tells the story of Cédric (solid Patrick Hivon), an engineer and father who, coming out of a fairly tipsy boxing fight, kisses a live tv reporter. His misconduct goes viral and forces him to re-examine his relationship with women. It is then that a deceptively ingenuous guardian (charismatic Nadia Tereszkiewicz) appears out of nowhere and turns his life upside down and that of Nadine (Monia Chokri), his wife in postpartum depression. Endowed with a very strong and assumed artistic direction which sometimes supplants its purpose, Baby sitter is destabilizing. The kind of thick film that requires a good debriefing session after the closing credits appear.
Club illico
Documentary
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Marilyn Monroe, fame at all costs
Marilyn Monroe, fame at all costs
Sixty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe continues to arouse fascination. While we wait for the release of Blonde hair, a biographical film directed by Andrew Dominik with Ana de Armas which will land on Netflix on September 28, Télé-Québec presents this French documentary series which explores the journey of Norma Jeane Baker through relatives never interviewed before. The first episode focuses on the childhood of the American, the result of an extramarital affair. The second recounts her debut as an actress, then her Hollywood rise. The third illustrates his fall by supporting the thesis of political assassination disguised as suicide, to stifle his relationship with John F. Kennedy.
Télé-Québec, from this Monday to Wednesday at 8 p.m.