Every week, Netflix adds films and series to its catalog, but it's not always easy to navigate. Écran Large is here to help you: here are the new features added by Netflix from December 6 to 13, 2024, films and series combined, in a non-exhaustive list.
What are the films and series not to be missed this week on the streaming platform?
TENET
- Already available
- Duration: 2h30
What is it about? An undercover agent must get his hands on a mysterious weapon to stop a war over a vital issue: time.
Why should you watch it? Because this is surely the Christopher Nolan that many people need to (re)discover. Released between Dunkirk et Oppenheimer, Tenet in particular suffered from the timing of the pandemic. Postponed several times during the summer of 2020, the film ultimately became the first Hollywood blockbuster to be released in theaters during this period, mainly because the filmmaker wanted to restart the machine. An honorable decision at Warner Bros., which unfortunately did not pay with 365 million at the box officefor a budget of around 200 million.
Beyond the business aspect, Tenet certainly left a good number of people behind, the fault of a slightly… complex conceptwhich would pass the rules ofInception for those of 6 who takes!. Lots of people will say “no no, not at all, it’s super simple” (there are some in the Ecran Large team), while others will spend an hour dissecting the strange internal logic of the story ( there are also some in the Ecran Large team). In any case, it remains an extraordinary propositionworn by the solid John David Washington, Robert Pattinson and Elizabeth Debicki.
MARIE
- Already available
- Duration: 1h52
What is it about? Cast aside after a miraculous conception, Mary flees to protect her child, Jesus, from the fury of King Herod.
Why should you watch it? Because even if the party of Marie seems to be largely taken on the side of religion rather than history, the trailer suggests everything except a boring catechism class. Under the threat of Anthony Hopkins as King Herod, Mary (Noa Cohen) and her boyfriend Joseph (Ido Tako) will have to flee to protect their unborn child. A story that causes romantic scenes and action sceneswith many “historical” reproductions and beautiful decorations.
Behind the camera, we find DJ Caruso to whom we owe films like Paranoïak, The Chambers of the Forgotten et xXx : Reactivated. Suffice to say that the director radically changes register here, but the photography seems no less polished and the staging ambitious. If you want to play it a little traditional when the end-of-year holidays arrive (it can happen to everyone) and immerse yourself in a little religious history without falling asleep to holy scriptures, this may be the film for you.
Kong : Skull island
- Already available
- Duration: 1h58
What is it about? A team of American soldiers and scientists undertakes the exploration of an island not shown on any map, unaware of the gigantic surprise that awaits them.
Why should you watch it? Maybe because it's the best movie with Kong among the works of the Monsterverse? Not that Kong : Skull Island truly lives up to its two great references, Apocalypse Now et In the heart of darknessfar from it, but there is something quite amusing in following the adventures of this team of explorers. Compared to the rest of the Monsterverse, this is clearly of one of the best-kept films both narratively and visually.
Of course, Kong : Skull Island does not create anything very new for the genre and pastiches its influences so much that it sometimes becomes laughable. However, there are some frankly gripping scenes (notably the one facing the Skullcrawler), quite a few big beasts as we like them and above all a not uninteresting mirror reflection on the consequences of the Viet-Nam war and all the mythology it entails. dragged behind her.
A hundred years of solitude
- Available December 11
- Duration: 7 episodes of approximately 1h05 each
What is it about? In the timeless (and fictional) town of Macondo, seven generations of the Buendia family navigate love, forgetting and the inevitability of their past – and their destiny.
Why should you watch it? Quite simply because it will be the first screen adaptation of a summit of contemporary literature whose author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, refused during his lifetime any transposition to cinema or television, for fear of seeing his long novel be butchered and distorted. This work co-directed by Laura Mora Ortega and Alex Garcia Lopez is therefore expected at the turning point, with as much hope as fear.
But according to the trailer and the duration of the series, it should succeed in being faithful to the novel, which has often been placed on the side of unadaptable stories with its plot spanning several generations, its cyclical narration and its fantastical touches. We can therefore expect an enigmatic, almost bewitching atmosphere, which will blur temporal markers. We'll talk about it again very quickly in a review.
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