A little humor, Mario Martone’s masterpiece, or an unprecedented German TV movie? In your place, we would take the direction of Naples.
Posted on August 22, 2025 at 6:50 am
Dysfunctional? Did you say dysfunctional? : “Places in the sun”
Jo Maibaum (Niels Bormann) provokes the new friend of his ex-wife on the phone. Maverick Film/Claussen+Putz Filmprod./Bayerischer Rundfunk/Arte/University for Television and Film Munich
First feature film by Swiss actor Aaron Arens, released exclusively in German rooms, which features a zinzin family visibly struck by collective bipolarity, gathered in a villa in Lanzarote, in the Canaries. A tragic-comedy euphoric.
At 8:55 p.m. on Arte. Film directed by Aaron Arens (Germany, 2024). 1h35. With Julia Windischbauer, Juliane Köhler, Niels Bormann. Unpublished.
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“Places in the sun”, by Aaron Arens: a film with black humor on a family in crisis
Atypical and touching: “The cicada for me all alone”
Alexis Le Rossignol. Kobayashi/FTV
The former chronner of The soundtrack On France Inter, Book, with this show, a enjoyable ode “In average life”to laziness and the assumed losse of everyday life, thanks to a deliciously cynical and absurd, pickled and disillusioned pen.
At 9 p.m. on France 4. Alexis Le Rossignol show, recorded at La Cigale on February 15, 2023. Realization: Manu Carriau. 1h20. Replay.
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“Alexis Le Rossignol: the cicada for me all by itself”: a enjoyable ode to average life
Last day to see it: “Nostalgia”
Pierfrancesco Favino.
Mad Ent. – Picomedia – Medusa Film – Rosebud Ent. Pictures
Back in his native Naples after forty years of absence, a man (Pierfrancesco Favino) faces his memories, his shortcomings … and Camorra. A great bewitching film, as majestic as it is dark, with mystical resonances.
To see in replay on Arte.tv. Film directed by Mario Martone (Italy / France, 2023). 1 hour 58 minutes. With Pierfrancesco Favino, Francesco di Leva, Tommaso Ragno.
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“Nostalgia” on Arte: Dolce Vita, delinquency and violence in Naples
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