What to watch on Crave? Here are some suggestions from our journalists.
Completely high school
No need to have watched the web series Completely high school to embark on its enhanced version. On the other hand, you have to be careful since the sitcom’s schoolboy humor, sometimes coarse and fast, is distributed on several levels: the lyrics, the facial expressions, the theme song, the graffiti on the walls, the billboards and the video description .
Hugo Dumas
norbourg
The staging by Maxime Giroux, a filmmaker who, after works like Felix and Meira and The great darkness, ventures for the first time in the production of a feature film intended for a wider audience, is entirely put at the service of history. And proves to be extremely effective. Thanks to precise editing, to images (by Sara Mishara) expressing the coldness of these places where financial issues are brewing and to a musical score (composed by Philippe Brault) which, without insisting too much, contributes to the heavy and anxiety-provoking character of This story, the filmmaker offers a financial thriller as it has rarely happened until now in Quebec.
Marc-Andre Lussier
The White Lotus 2
Here we are in an elegantly stitched tragicomedy that is at once funny, gritty, uncomfortable and witty. Bonus: there is still a death to be elucidated against the background of the existential crisis of hyper-rich customers, the 1% of the planet, but little inclined to introspection.
Hugo Dumas
Arsenault and son
Good auteur films with a popular vocation, rallying both critics and audiences, are not legion in Quebec. Here is one who could potentially impose himself in this way, even by venturing out of the paths of comedy, which is rare. We can only applaud.
Marc-Andre Lussier
Sibling
Thanks to magnificent shots, beautiful romantic impulses, voice-over dialogues, and, it goes without saying, remarkable interpretations by Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud, the director of Roubaix, a light engages in the twists and turns of a conflict between two close friends, through which they strangely define themselves in relation to each other, without even knowing the source of their resentment or remembering it.
Marc-Andre Lussier
Presumed Innocent: The France Alain Affair
Using extensive archival footage, including several excerpts from the now defunct show reverse shot by Anne-Marie Dussault, Crave’s docuseries revisits in a precise and effective way the events that forged this shocking story, full of twists and turns.
Hugo Dumas
Crimes of the Future
Crimes of the Future (The crimes of the future is the title in French) is masterfully staged and looks like a real work of art from an aesthetic point of view. The composition of the images by Douglas Koch, the anxiety-provoking musical score of faithful accomplice Howard Shore, the impeccable artistic direction of production designer Carol Spier (accomplice of Cronenberg since The Dead Zone), in short, everything is at the service of the inventive and twisted imagination of Canada’s most famous filmmaker.
Marc-Andre Lussier
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
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