VOD Festival 2023: 10 films to catch up on for just 2 euros
From the Three Musketeers to Knock at the Cabin, including Babylon and Love and the Forests, discover Première’s selection.
There VOD festival is back ! For four days, it’s an opportunity for movie buffs to watch hundreds of films at reduced prices from €1 to rent, and €5 to purchase. Recent films (The Flash, Fast X, Jeanne du Barry, Top Gun: Maverick, Super Mario Bros.…) or heritage (The Big Blond with a black shoe, Dr. Folamour, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Casablanca, 8 and a half, Cléo from 5 to 7…).
At Première, we have chosen to put together a selection for you made up of some of our favorites from the last 12 months, films which have not necessarily been a hit at the box office but which we recommend you catch up with, if you haven’t seen them before.
The VOD Festival takes place from Thursday October 12 to Sunday October 15, 2023 on eight platforms: Arte VOD, Canal VOD, Orange VOD, Filmo, La Cinetek, Orange, Universciné, Viva and Première Max by Vidéofutur, the streaming service launched by Première in partnership with Viva. More information on the event website: https://fetedelavod.fr/
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The Fabelmansby Steven Spielberg
How was Steven Spielberg’s passion for cinema born? The filmmaker reveals how it all began with this very personal family story, which draws inspiration from his own life and filmography to create a work that only cinema can offer: an intimate drama, but punctuated with moments of pure comedy or of shocking moments that impress the retina, and carried from beginning to end by a great casting, even in the smallest roles.
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Love and the forests by Valérie Donzelli
By bringing Eric Reinhardt’s book to the screen, Valérie Donzelli leaves her comfort zone, transforms her staging (usually playful with pop accents) to take on this story which begins as a romantic comedy but turns into the anatomy of a toxic relationship. The director signs her greatest film, a stifling thriller carried by major actors, Melvil Poupaud and Virginie Efira. A second consecutive Caesar extends his arms to him.
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Knock at the Cabinby M. Night Shyamalan
The director of Sixth Sense was amazed by Dave Bautista when he discovered it in Blade Runner 2049, so he offered him one of the key roles in this gripping paranoid thriller. From the opening, facing a little girl playing in the woods, he bursts the screen and creates a tension which will not fall again throughout this “home invasion” which never ceases to thwart the codes of the genre.
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The partners in crime by Cécilia Rouaud
Max is a hitman who can no longer work: recently, he faints at the sight of the slightest drop of blood. Comedy with Coenian accents – atmosphere Blood for blood And Fargo -, The partners in crime brings together François Damiens (the forced-retreat killer with a six-foot-long mouth), William Lebghil and Laura Felpin (imperial as neighbors who have no idea of his past). Armed with hilarious supporting roles (Jean-François Cayrey as a stupid salesman, Bruno Podalydès as a “cleaner” in Hawaiian shirts…), the film exists in a joyful nostalgia and delights in being constantly in unstable balance.
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The Three Musketeers – d’Artagnanby Martin Bourboulon
Succeeding in offering a modern adventure film while respecting the verve of Alexandre Dumas’ work was no easy feat, yet the mission was successful for the Prénom team. The intriguing Milady, played by Eva Green, will soon be at the heart of her sequel, where she will have to face François Civil, Pio Marmaï and the others after having already played a few dirty tricks on them here. After the great spectacle of this first part, we can’t wait to see it.
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Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
After the prodigious Spider-Man: New Generation, Across the Spider-Verse dazzles us with its incomparably rich storyline, aided by a multiplication of dramatic twists, each more stunning than the last, where we come across an Indian Spider-Man, a punk Spider-Man, an acting Spider-Woman with a virtual reality headset and even a Spider-Man dad. All while brilliantly mixing animation styles. A gem that the second part of the film is already looking forward to, scheduled for 2024.
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Babylon by Damien Chazelle
Chazelle’s Hollywood odyssey results in a grotesque and imperfect fresco, moving and intimate. From silent cinema to Let’s sing in the rain, there are orgies and elephants that defecate; there are dark passages in the nightmares of California; and heart-wrenching melodrama moments thanks to Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt. Babylon, it is the total film which (necessarily) divides. Big flop in theaters – which suits it perfectly, basically. We catch it at home, just to check if the cinema power that irrigates the three hours of film is still as high?
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Beautiful is Afraid by Ari Aster
Another three-hour author’s rollercoaster, Beautiful is Afraid is a juggernaut that does not fuel itself with hubris but with adrenaline – the hormone of stress and fear, that of Beau, an old kid (Joaquin Phoenix) stuck in fear in his apartment in the middle of a city/war zone, and who has to leave it to see his mother. Even if Beau is afraid has all the appearance of an endless nightmare film where we go from one circle of hell to another, it is also a (very) dark comedy where we laugh a lot – sometimes to ward off fear, we give you that. Be warned, and be witnesses.
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My Crime by François Ozon
After 8 women and Potiche, here is François Ozon once again at the helm of a comedy, taken from a play, and carried by female characters as powerful as they are colorful. The story, in the 1930s, of two struggling friends, Pauline and Madeleine – one a young actress without much talent, the other a beginner lawyer – who find themselves propelled into the spotlight when the first accuses herself of murder of a powerful producer with wandering hands and when the second obtains its dismissal in a resounding trial. But whose sudden glory turns out to be fragile because the real culprit is on the prowl and will want to get her share of the pie. In a delightfully playful gesture, Ozon speaks here about the condition of women and the debunking of the dominant patriarchy by drawing parallels between the 1930s and today but without falling into verbose discourse. Her mischievous ode to sorority allows Rebecca Marder and Nadia Tereszkiewciz to confirm that they are two of the most exciting actresses of their generation.
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Seven winters in Tehran by Steffi Niederzoll
In 2007, 19-year-old Iranian Reyhaneh Jabbari slashed and killed the man about to rape her. He’s powerful, she’s not. Reyhaneh is accused of murder, thrown in prison, sentenced to death after a dishonest trial. Hanged in 2014. In the meantime, like Mahsa Amini today, she has become a figure in the fight for women’s rights in Iran. This moving documentary recounts this tragedy and echoes the recent She SaidAmerican fiction which filmed the fall of the ogre Harvey Weinstein.
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