our selection for Tuesday, November 12

A busy program this evening. Your choice: the most beautiful film by Louis Malle. Or two enlightening documentaries, one on a global scandal linked to adoption, the other on the First World War.

Great fatigue: “The Wisp”

Okay, that's not very happy. But what is more invigorating than moonlighting? An esthete seducer, disillusioned, committed suicide while on borrowed time, makes one last trip to check that the taste of living has left him. All in the most beautiful music in the world, that of Satie.

On Arte.TV. Film directed by Louis Malle (France, 1963). With Maurice Ronet and Alexandra Stewart. Rebroadcast.

Alert the babies! : “International adoption, a global scandal”

Combining the words of experts and whistleblowers, this remarkable investigation identifies the extent of sordid, lucrative and unpunished trafficking around adoption. “Baby factories”, falsified documents, pressure on biological parents, stolen children: the picture is alarming.

At 8:55 p.m. on Arte. Documentary by Christine Tournadre and Sonia Gonzalez (France, 2024). Unpublished.

The Belle Époque destroyed: “1914, and suddenly war!”

Another big commemorative film with colorized and noisy archives? Yes, but not only that. Because the director showed great formal inventiveness to tell us precisely the second half of 1914, which was the deadliest period of the conflict.

At 9:05 p.m. on France 2. Documentary by Cédric Gruat (France, 2024). Unpublished.

And if you don't find what you're looking for… Check out tonight's TV schedule. Or draw from our latest recommendations among the platform offers (Netflix, Apple TV +, MyCanal, Arte.tv, Disney +…).