Each week, the DashFUN streaming team makes its selection of favorites with the news not to be missed. What made us vibrate, tremble, laugh, cry, jump? Here is our top 5 of the week.
YOUNG ROYALS (NETFLIX)
This Swedish series which capsized several little hearts this summer on Netflix could well rekindle new ones, if you give it a chance for a little binge-watching in the middle of winter. Young Royals is a touching adolescent love story set against the backdrop of an initiatory narrative in a world of privileged students. In this intimate drama, we follow Prince Wilhelm’s journey and his integration into the prestigious Hillerska boarding school.
Believing that he can finally escape the weight of royal responsibilities and his intrusive family, Wilhelm hopes to find out who he really is and enjoy some freedom among his new comrades. His meeting with Simon, a young scholarship holder, will change his life and turn his convictions upside down. However, this relationship, initially hidden and then revealed in a malicious way, will disturb Wilhelm, who finds himself torn between his love and his duty, when he becomes the first in the order of succession to the throne.
Contrary to the sulphurous teen series, Young Royals seduces with its authenticity and sensitivity, due to brilliant writing and a convincing and realistic cast. Edvin Ryding and Omar Rudberg are impeccable and dazzling in the skin of these two lovebirds linked by a pure, delicate and even very mature love for pimply teenagers (far from the clichés of actors in their twenties playing high school students!). Even if the plot remains predictable, one cannot help but be charmed by this heartfelt, intelligent and moving LGBTQ + romance, filmed with care and poetry and cradled by a delicious pop soundtrack. MC
Le Bal des folles (Prime Video)
For her fifth film as director, Mélanie Laurent adapts Victoria Mas’ novel, Le Bal de folles, and offers a historical fresco on the fate of the women locked up at the Pitié-Salpêtrière. It tells the fate of Eugenie, a brilliant and free young heroine, who has a gift: that of communicating with the dead. It doesn’t take her family any more to lock her up in Doctor Charcot’s hospital. There, she meets other patients, but especially a nurse, Geneviève, with whom she will forge a special bond.
Visually impressive and carried by a beautiful gallery of performers, this adaptation brings the great French period films up to date, such as, to name just one, Camille Claudel, a classic with Isabelle Adjani. Mélanie Laurent, in front of and behind the camera, turns her film into a fiery work that retains all its relevance today. She finds Lou de La age, whom she had already directed in Respire. The two form a powerful and moving duo. Without a doubt, one of the best streaming movies of 2021. TD
INVINCIBLE (AMAZON PRIME VIDEO)
Another series of superheroes? Yes, except that none closely or remotely resembles Invincible (one season available)! The animated series from Amazon Prime Video is the adaptation of the eponymous comic book, co-created by Robert Kirkman (the dad of The Walking Dead, also author of Marvel Zombies that Disney + will soon adapt).
In the universe ofInvincible, superpowered superheroes don’t have to be who we think they are. The series opens with the initiatory story of a teenager discovering superpowers. After a completely unexpected end of the pilot episode, the series embarks us on fun and gory adventures, on a thrilling pace that leaves no room for boredom.
Significant bonus: an incredible vocal cast in the original version, with the voices of Steven Yeun, JK Simmons, Sandra Oh, or Zachary Quinto, Seth Rogen and Mahershala Ali. Encouraged by its triumphant launch last March, Amazon Prime Video did not hesitate to renew the series for two more seasons! CC
Cruel Summer (Prime Video)
Summer has passed, but there isn’t really a season for binge-watcher Cruel Summer on Amazon (which the author of these lines devoured in a day). It is first of all its synopsis that is appealing: taking place over three summers in the 90s, the series chronicles the sudden disappearance of a popular high school girl and how one of her classmates, shy and awkward, suddenly becomes the city icon before turning into America’s most despised person when accused of having something to do with it. Is she guilty or innocent?
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