Every evening, we recommend a film and a series to watch on SVOD. On this Wednesday, February 15, 2023, we invite you to carry out a moving investigation thanks to Mare of Easttown or to run in the streets of Paris with À plein temps.
To occupy your evening on this Wednesday, February 15, 2023, we advise you to dive into the small town of Mare of Easttownalongside Kate Winslet, on OCS and on Prime Video.
And if you prefer a short but intense film, you can also embark on a frantic quest with Full time on Canal+.
Netflix, Prime Video, Canal+, OCS, Disney+… The offer of SVOD platforms is always growing. To save you time and guide you through this mass of content, Numerama now recommends a film and a series for each day of the week.
Series Mare of Easttown on OCS and Prime Video, a thriller worthy of the greatest
It’s not for nothing that we awarded the maximum score to this series when it was broadcast in France: Mare of Easttown is simply one of the best detective series of recent years. Far from the usual clichés of the genre, this thriller features Kate Winslet in one of the greatest roles of her career: the famous Mare of the title. She embodies this cop disillusioned and damaged by life, confronted with the disappearance of Katie and the murder of Erin, two teenagers. It is in Easttown, this seemingly perfect city that she has always known, that she will have to unravel the secrets of the inhabitants…
As Twin Peaks Or Broadchurch in their time, Mare of Easttown approaches the police investigation from an intimate point of view. In just seven short episodes, we become attached to the characters, embodied by a solid cast, of Julianne Nicholson (Masters of Sex) to John Smart (Legion) via Evan Peters (Wanda Vision, Dahmer). But the real advantage of Mare of Easttown is obviously Kate Winslet. We love following this blasé, direct forty-something who eats big burgers or cold pizza in her car. Mare is an ordinary female character, and that feels great. Brief, Mare of Easttown will captivate budding detectives in need of a well-crafted investigation while touching the heart of the victims of life. This is called bingo.
Watch if you liked: Twin Peaks ; Broadchurch ; True Detective ; Sharp Objects
Must see if you are looking for: well-crafted investigation; twists; small town, but big secrets; jump at the resolution; long episodes; family relationships; drama ; Kate Winslet (literally) unvarnished; sob out
The film Full time on Canal+, a race against time in Paris
You don’t have time to waste on this Wednesday, February 15, 2023? That’s good, Julie either. Played by Laure Calamy (revealed by the series Ten percent), this forty-year-old struggles to raise her two children in the countryside. At the same time, she goes to Paris every day to work as a housekeeper in a palace in the capital. But when she gets an interview for the job of her dreams, when a transport strike breaks out, everything will change… To obtain the explosive cocktail ofFull timeyou can mix Ken Loach’s social films (I, Daniel Blake) and the Dardenne Brothers (Two days, one night), while switching them to x2 playback speed. Yes, because this French film knows no dead time, during its short duration of 1h20.
Constantly fixed on his heroine, condemned to run at every moment, Full time shows perfectly the pressure and the urgency of his situation. It must be said that the film owes a lot to the frenetic performance of Laure Calamy, as sparkling and moving as usual. Full time is an ultimately banal race against time, that of a mother tired by the mental burden and loneliness, while everything is paralyzed by strikes, whose demands she shares without being able to support them. A panting social film, where everything hangs on an invisible thread, but which nevertheless overwhelms the heroine with all its weight. Shiny and bright.
Watch if you liked: I, Daniel Blake ; Two days, one night ; The Unknown Girl ; Antoinette in the Cevennes
Must see if you are looking for: social film; without dead time; short film; race against time ; single mother ; everyday life ; New chance ; Laure Calamy on each shot; complain about the delays of Parisian transport
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