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Lin-Manuel Miranda signs a realization from which emanates his wild love for Broadway, but also, especially, for the creators. The success of this feature film also owes a lot to Andrew Garfield. Practically from all scenes, the actor gives a dazzling performance, all the more impressive because initially the young man had no musical training at all.
Marc-Andre Lussier
The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window
Despite its flaws, The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window offers a form of astonishing entertainment, never seen elsewhere. Put on your terrycloth dressing gown, plan for endless supplies of Liano, and good gusts in the company of this woman who drinks more than Élise Guilbault in a Bernard Émond film.
Hugo Dumas
jeen-yuhs: the Kanye West trilogy
Even though Kanye demanded to approve the final version of the project, we are delighted that the work focuses only on his career and not on his love and family life, already highly publicized. This documentary, with superb editing, allows us to better understand the origins of an artist with undeniable genius, incapable of not remembering that he was the first to consider himself brilliant.
Pascal LeBlanc
Archives 81
The eight one-hour episodes of the miniseries Archives 81, offered in English and French, trigger a sneaky paranoia that slowly but surely seeps into our cocoons. The more the episodes progress, the more the division between the past and the present blurs. The nightmare encroaches on reality. And fear screws into our minds against a musical backdrop Amityville.
Hugo Dumas
The Lost Daughter
For a first feature film as screenwriter and director, Maggie Gyllenhaal hit the nail on the head. His adaptation of the novel Stolen doll by Elena Ferrante (also the title of the French version of the film) is all in finesse, in subtleties, interspersed with dialogues as well as percussive silences.
Marc-Andre Lussier
The Tinder Swindler
ATfter a few weeks of dreamy romance, the true stories of the women featured in the documentary The Tinder Swindler goes from Fifty Shades of grey at Nights with my enemy. Simon Leviev, aka Shimon Hayut, aka David Sharon, manipulated and plucked them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s the best of a compelling two-hour condensed “true crime” series.
Hugo Dumas
The Power of the Dog
Jane Campion’s return to directing a feature film after a 12-year absence couldn’t be grander. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst and Kodi Smith-McPhee, all excellent, this adaptation of Thomas Savage’s novel borrows the setting of the western to deliver a story of great psychological depth. With finesse, sensitivity and sensuality, the director of The Piano offers a work of beautiful evocative power.
Marc-Andre Lussier
Don’t Look Up
After The Big Short and Vice, Adam McKay offers a satire filled with effective gags, which nevertheless leaves a bitter taste so much it is based on a background of truth. The filmmaker illustrates how the politicization of all issues, especially those based on science, and the misinformation relayed by supporters of alternative facts are leading humanity downright to ruin.
Marc-Andre Lussier
God’s hand
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, also an Italian candidate for the Oscars in the category of best international film, God’s hand is unquestionably Paolo Sorrentino’s most personal opus (The big beauty). The Italian filmmaker evokes his teenage years in Naples, when Diego Maradona, god of soccer and absolute idol, prepares, against all odds, to leave Barcelona to join the local team.
Marc-Andre Lussier
Bridgerton
Cross between gossip girl and Downton Abbey, Bridgerton takes us to two aristocratic families in early 19th century Londonand century. There’s the Bridgertons, there’s the Featheringtons, and there’s the ballroom season that’s starting and putting a lot of pressure on the young, romantic Daphne Bridgerton. Will she find her prince charming in this rigid universe regulated by a series of hierarchical conventions? To listen to before the arrival of the second season, on March 25th.
Hugo Dumas