Netflix: what are we watching on the weekend of June 22nd and 23rd?

Netflix: what are we watching on the weekend of June 22nd and 23rd?



After the Seine shark, here is the cooked bear

Despite its novelty and its star Jessica Alba, it would be remiss to recommend the Netflix original film Fight back, which could be an unpleasant surprise and a waste of time for many subscribers. We will therefore instead focus on a new film added to the catalog but which is not an original creation of the platform: Crazy Bear.

Passed unnoticed at the cinema, this black comedy verging on animal horror directed by Elizabeth Banks has just been dethroned France’s top 10 the great success Under the Seine. The furious Seine shark then gave in a bear high on cocaine who wanders in a forest where you meet teenagers and forest rangers, criminals and police officers, tourists… Inspired by the true story of a bear who overdosed after consuming large quantities of cocaine parachuted by a trafficker, Crazy Bear It has divided the critics but for him it has a freshness and a general one some very funny and bloody sequences.

A sulphurous classic

If Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux are leading figures in French and international cinema today, they owe it in part to the film that definitively revealed them: The life of Adèle – chapters 1 and 2.

The life of Adèle - chapters 1 and 2
The Life of Adèle – chapters 1 and 2 © Wild Bunch

A formidable “reality” film, with a breathtaking mastery of naturalism, bold to a fault, The Life of Adele tells the following story:

Seventeen years old, young Adèle inevitably believes that a girl should meet boys and dreams of true love. She allows herself to be seduced by Thomas, a senior, and quickly ends the relationship. She then meets Emma, ​​a young woman with blue hair. It’s love at first sight. This meeting completely turns her life upside down, with which Emma torments her dreams and her most intimate desires every night…

Acclaimed upon its release as much as controversial for the problematic shooting conditions, Adele ‘s life has become a classic of French cinema and a cult film for an entire generation, to be (re)discovered on Netflix at your leisure.

The last days to get excited with Will Smith

The 2007 film In search of happiness brings together Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith to tell the heartwarming story true story by Chris Gardner, a sales representative who despite his efforts cannot get his house out of precariousness. Left by his partner, he finds himself homeless, alone with his five-year-old son. Drawing his energy from his son’s love and trust in him, Chris will do anything to succeed.

In search of happiness
In search of happiness ©Gaumont

Commercial and critical success, In search of happiness it allows Will Smith to deliver a great dramatic performance, which earns him. 2008 a nomination for the Golden Globe and theOscar for best actor. Among the most watched films on Netflix, In search of happiness leave the platform July 1st.

Source: Cine Serie

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