We’re eagerly awaiting this series, not only because its title reminds us of an old R.E.M. hit from the early 1990s, but because it promises to “expose the truth” behind the smooth facade of the Duggar family. a rigorous Christian upbringing that had its heyday at the turn of the 2000s and 2010s with 19 Kids and Counting, a TLC reality show that depicted his ultraconservative lifestyle. The Amazon Studios offering will notably explore the radical organization behind the controversial clan: the Institute in Basic Life Principles. When you watch her trailer, you realize where Margaret Atwood got her inspiration to write The Handmaid’s Tale.
Because a good half-dozen songs by Tina Turner (We Don’t Need Another Hero, The Best, Private Dancer…) have been playing in our heads on a loop since her death last Wednesday, we feel the need to revisit this biographical drama. of 1993 for which Angela Bassett should have won the Oscar (Holly Hunter had been crowned best actress for The piano lesson). Directed by Brian Gibson, Whatever Love (its title in French) depicts the ascent strewn with pitfalls of Anna Mae Bullock, victim of domestic violence at the hands of Ike Turner, her first husband. A feature film that makes us realize how much this rock and roll icon fought to find her place in the sun.
Robert Charlebois, Yvon Deschamps, Louise Forestier and Mouffe revisit, 55 years later, the mythical show they presented at the Théâtre de Quat’Sous, in Montreal, in May 1968. Premiered on Sunday, this documentary by Louis-Philippe Eno (known for his work with Les Trois Accords and Les Cowboys Fringants) also examines the impact of the work through testimonies by Michel Rivard, Adib Alkhalidey, Léa Clermont-Dion and Marcel Sabourin. For those who want to go further, know that there is a podcast in which comedian Philippe-Audrey Larrue-St-Jacques and Jean-Marc Larrue, his historian father, discuss the historical, social and cultural context of L’Osstidcho .
Directed by Sébastien Trahan, a specialist in crime documentaries, commonly known as true crime (Raymond Boulanger’s Last Flight, Presumed Innocent: The Michelle Perron Affair), this three-part series revisits a story that fascinated the entire planet in 2016: that of the two Quebecers who had become entangled in a case of cocaine trafficking in the middle of a cruise. Returning to the country after spending several years behind bars in Australia, one of the young women, Isabelle Lagacé, exposes “without taboos her version of the facts”, underline Urbania and Connect3 Media, which produce this miniseries in collaboration with Bell Media. cocaine, jail
