Life is beautiful, it's Frank Capra who says it and his message enchants us, today as yesterday. The new Zorro has it all too. And the other highlight of the evening is for Albert Camus fans.
By Frédéric Strauss
Published on December 23, 2024 at 9:55 a.m.
Always wonderful: “Life is beautiful”
This warm fable, shunned upon its release, has since found its audience to become cult. RKO
One Christmas evening, a second-class angel comes to support a man on the verge of despair… Humor and love are inseparable in this film that has become cult, a sincere Hollywood tale that mixes social realism and the marvelous to make humanism triumph. A masterpiece that must be seen and seen again!
At 8:55 p.m. on Arte. Film by Frank Capra (USA, 1946). Screenplay: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett and F. Capra, based on Philip Van Doren Stern. 130 mins. VM. NB. With James Stewart and Donna Reed. Rebroadcast.
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“Life is beautiful”: Frank Capra’s masterpiece of tenderness and humanism
Jean Dujardin is a perfect “Zorro”
In this adaptation, Don Diego de la Vega becomes Zorro again after twenty years without having put on the vigilante costume. Christophe Brachet / Christophe Brachet/France Télévisions/Paramount+
Circumstances force Don Diego de la Vega to put on the mask of Zorro after a long retirement: there is an urgent need to fight the evil capitalist who wants to take over the city. A golden score for Jean Dujardin, who invents an aging Zorro, both current and timeless. A Christmas present, already.
At 9:10 p.m. on France 2. Series created by Benjamin Charbit and Noé Debré (France, 2024). 4 × 40 mins. With Jean Dujardin and Audrey Dana. Unpublished.
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“Zorro”, the series: Jean Dujardin, funny and credible as an aging masked vigilante
Abundant portrait: “The Lives of Albert Camus”
From the poor child to the flayed for whom the Algerian war was an intimate drama, almost all its facets are explored. Bridgeman Images / LCP
The author of The Stranger, that posterity tends to smooth over, had a complex personality. And this documentary superbly recreates this fabric. Thanks to numerous archives (often rare, sometimes colored), he makes us discover the inner man and his torments. A portrait full of keys to understanding the writer.
At 8:05 p.m. on LCP. Documentary by Georges-Marc Benamou (France, 2020). 105 mins. Rebroadcast.
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“The Lives of Albert Camus”: a fleshed-out portrait of a tormented man
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