What are the must-haves offered by Crave? Here are some ideas proposed by our journalists.
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Kaamelott: First part
Such a situation could certainly arise with the release of the feature film. Kaamelott — First part, by Alexandre Astier. Coming to us from Gaul, this film arrives on Crave on March 25 with a baggage of 6 TV seasons and 458 episodes of medieval fantasy inspired by Arthurian legend. Let us be reassured! We can see this film with an uninitiated look and take great pleasure in it.
Andre Duchesne
A criminal case
Céline Bonnier is dangerously close to a Gemini award thanks to her role as a combative and dysfunctional mother in the miniseries A criminal case, Crave’s new high-caliber detective offering. It’s very good television, punctuated with nice touches of humor.
Hugo Dumas
Maria Chapdelaine
With a duration of 2h 38min – 3 minutes longer than Dunes ! –, some viewers will no doubt find the contemplative experience a bit long, but Sébastien Pilote offers here a work that will go down in history as the indisputable and definitive version of Louis Hémon’s novel in the cinema. This fourth version, produced by a filmmaker who himself carries this story in his flesh, is thus fully justified.
Marc-Andre Lussier
Dune – Part 1
Dunes is a blockbuster copyright in the best sense of the word. A large-scale, epic, ambitious film that bears the aesthetic signature of Denis Villeneuve. The curves of spaceships recalling Arrivalthe aerial shots of helicopters (in the shape of dragonflies) evoking Sicariothe arid scenery inevitably making one think of blade runner 2049even to Fires. We find in Villeneuve’s 10th feature film, in a condensed version and in all its splendor, the know-how and mastery of the Quebec filmmaker. Dunes is cited in 10 categories, including Best Picture.
Marc Cassivi
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Fascinating characters played by an all-star cast. The early 1980s in a city that shines brightly. A mix between documentary and pure entertainment. Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty tells the story of one of the most glorious basketball teams in history during a frenzied era. This series is much more than a work on sport, it is a page of history.
Pascal LeBlanc
Phoenix Rising
Playing monster does not make you a monster, but after seeing Phoenix Rising, the two-part documentary by Amy J. Berg, we say to ourselves that yes, Marilyn Manson is indeed a monster, after all. Another, unfortunately. This production offered on HBO and Crave gives the floor to actress Evan Rachel Wood, who recounts the abuse she suffered at the hands of Marilyn Manson, whose spouse she was from 2007 to 2010.
Chantal Guy
Beans
Tracey Deer doesn’t dwell too much on land claims (present in the background, of course) or politics. This also serves his film well. It shows what we had not seen or seen too little so far: the human beings who were on the other side of the barricades while hate speech inflamed public opinion. It was necessary.
Alexandre Vigneault
Corruption – The shocking revelations of the Charbonneau commission
Containing public knowledge information, the first episodes of Corruption – The shocking revelations of the Charbonneau commission paint a detailed, comprehensive – and above all distressing – portrait of the practices that sullied the public service in construction. Collusion, favouritism, shenanigans, cost overruns, bribes, mafia… Everything was allowed. The number of testimonies collected is impressive.
Marc-Andre Lemieux
Once it’s a black
Once it’s a black is a unpublished documentary that recounts the sometimes perilous journey of black comedians in Quebec. We end the viewing with the impression of better understanding what black Quebec comedians have been through since 1979, the year Normand Brathwaite landed the role of a Haitian on the show. At Denise’s.
Marc-Andre Lemieux
Yellowjackets
You Must Watch Survival Horror Thriller Yellowjackets, in which Quebec actress Sophie Nélisse landed one of the lead roles. This is gorebrilliant, intriguing, creepy, frightening and full of mysteries to be solved.
Hugo Dumas
Judas and the Black Messiah
The high quality of Judas and the Black Messiah is to keep his story at a human level by avoiding clichés and stripping it of all Manichaeism. That said, there is also the story, inevitably shocking. The director Shaka King tells it in a captivating way, thanks to a staging evoking the spirit of the time, without ever falling into caricature.
Marc-Andre Lussier