Sunday
Vase:
Directed by François OZON
With Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini, Karine Viard, Jeremy Renier
Comedy / France / 2010 / 1h43
20h55 on France 2
Synopsis: In 1977, in a province of the French bourgeoisie, Suzanne Pujol is the wife and submissive of a rich industrialist Robert Pujol. He runs his umbrella factory with an iron fist and is as unpleasant and despotic with his workers as he is with his children and wife, whom he mistakes for a potiche. Following a strike and the kidnapping of her husband, Suzanne finds herself in charge of the factory and is surprisingly a woman of leadership and action. But when Robert returns from a break in great shape, everything gets complicated…
Without being François Ozon's best film, Potiche manages to seduce the audience relatively well thanks to quality performers who evolve in a pseudo open-air theater scene for better or for worse. In the atmosphere of the seventies Ozon signs a dramatic comedy on the relationship between individuals relatively successful.
The Terminal:
Directed by Steven SPIELBERG
With Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci
Comedy drama / USA / 2004 / 2h08
21h00 on C8
Synopsis: Viktor Navorski is one of the thousands of tourists from all over the world who arrive every day at JFK Airport in New York. But, a few hours before his arrival, a coup d'état upsets his small Central European republic, banishing it from nations and making Viktor … a stateless person. The doors of America are closing before him, even as the borders of his country are closed: Viktor is well and truly stuck…
The Terminal is a touching film largely thanks to the main character played by Tom Hanks who gives it an endearing dimension. Spielberg writes a naïve, innocent character facing a new problem. Stuck in this airport the protagonist will make amazing encounters trying to solve his problem.
The Fox and the Child:
Directed by Luc JACQUET
With Isabelle Carré
Drama / France / 2007 / 1h32
8:55pm on France 4
Synopsis: One autumn morning, at the bend of a path, a little girl sees a fox. Fascinated to the point of forgetting all fear, she dares to approach. For a moment, the barriers that separate the child and the animal disappear. This is the beginning of the most amazing and fabulous friendship. Thanks to the fox, the little girl will discover a secret and wild nature. Then begins an adventure that will change his life, his vision and ours…
A sad and touching animal film par excellence, The Fox and the Child could have been the work of Master Annaud, a regular in this cinematographic register. Supported by a sad, unbearably realistic ending, which brings a dreamy viewer back to such an ideal story of friendship between man and animal to the terrible and pessimistic reason, the feature film is a powerful and gripping natural epic for fans of the genre.
Monday
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom:
Directed by Steven SPIELBERG
With Harrison Ford
Adventures, Action / USA / 1984 / 1h58
21:00 on M6
Synopsis: Adventurous archaeologist Indiana Jones is back. He pursues a terrible sect that has stolen a sacred jewel endowed with fabulous powers. A cabaret singer and a mind-blowing kid will help him face the most insane dangers.
After a first episode totally cult, Steven Spielberg chooses, in the manner of the Star Wars saga, to offer a second episode against the current, much darker than the atmosphere of the rest of the saga. The Temple of Doom puts Indiana in difficult positions, confronted with insects, indigestible meals, and heart-pullers. An unexpected second opus, also become cult.
Mary Poppins:
Directed by Robert STEVENSEN
With Julie Andrews
Musical / USA / 1965 / 2h14
20h55 on W9
Synopsis: Nothing is going well in the Banks family anymore. The nurse has just given her eight days. And neither Mr. Banks, an investment banker, nor his wife, an active suffragette, can take care of the children Jane and Michael. The latter then make a very fanciful announcement to find a new nurse. It is Mary Poppins who answers and appears the next day, carried by the east wind. She immediately leads the children into her wonderful world. One of the most famous films of the Disney production.
While Mary Poppins will have the right to its remake, it is one of the most cult and memorable comedies in the history of Disney. Mary Poppins amazed a whole generation of children with this welcoming, funny and seductive magician, applying funny spells that every little child of an era dreamed of. An immensely cult film. Academy Award for Best Actress for Julie Andrews.
Tuesday
Fear of the City:
Directed by Henry VERNEUIL
With Jean-Paul Belmondo
Policeman / France / 1975 / 2h05
20h45 on ParisPremière
Synopsis: Judging the morals of some women too light, a psychopathic killer harasses them by phone. Considering himself a vigilante, "Minos" takes action, and kills one of them. When the body of the young woman is found, Commissioner Letellier, still obsessed with her latest case, takes charge of the investigation. As the murders intensified, Letellier turned it into a personal matter.
The feature film featuring an unsympathetic and pretentious Belmondo offers some interesting Verneuil style effects. Film for all audiences, minor work of Verneuil, with a convincing villain, the spectator will remember the scene of the gun fight, in the middle of a trifect of mannequins, carried by the epileptic and repetitive music of Moricone, a grandiose scene. Fear on the City remains a classic of the French policeman where Belmondo has a great time.
Thursday
Mission Impossible 2:
Directed by John WOO
With Tom Cruise
Action / USA / 2000 / 2h06
20:55 on TMC
Synopsis: Your mission, Mr. Hunt, if you decide to accept it, will be to recover a genetically modified virus, called Chimera. Sean Ambrose, who was your student before becoming your nemesis, has seized the antidote and is hiding in a secret laboratory in Sydney. His ex-mistress, Nyah Hall, could prove useful in your attempts to infiltrate this highly protected HQ. As always, if you or any of your teammates were captured or killed, the State Department would deny knowledge of your actions. This summary will self-destruct in five seconds.
Directed by John Woo, the king of gun fights and doves, this second episode is undoubtedly the most dusty and the least credible, but also the most kitsch and the least serious. A deluge of action without tail or head in total break with the other opus. But since this is John Woo, the recipe goes rather well.
All is Lost :
Directed by JC CHANDOR
With Robert Redford
Survival / USA / 2013 / 1h46
20h55 on Chérie25
Synopsis: During a solo trip across the Indian Ocean, a man wakes up to discover that the hull of his 12-meter sailboat was pierced in a collision with a floating container adrift. Deprived of his radio and navigation equipment, the man gets caught in a violent storm. Despite his repairs, his marine genius and a physical strength defying the years, he barely survived. With a simple sextant and a few nautical charts to establish his position, he must rely on the currents to hope to get closer to a shipping lane and hail a passing ship. But the relentless sun, the threat of sharks and the depletion of his meagre reserves force this mad sailor to look death in the face.
JC Chandor rose to prominence with Margin Call, a gripping foray into the world of Wall Street on the eve of the financial crisis. All is Lost is his least ambitious film but remains an excellent survival in the open sea with the only companion the living legend Robert Redford. After a few words of regret to introduce the story, the feature film will subsequently remain silent in its entirety. All is Lost is a classic survival but nevertheless taking thanks to the verve of its main interpreter, thanks to a scenario that reserves some eventful moments and thanks to a memorable photography.
