At the end of 2023, a shower of new releases fell on the streaming platforms, but which recently released films and series should you definitely put on your watch list? CNET France helps you sort through with a selection of three titles to watch before moving on to 2024.
Without further delay, discover: The World After Us, The Gilded Age and Saltburn.
What films and series can you watch or rewatch on Netflix and Prime Video this Wednesday?
A disturbing thriller: The World After Us (Netflix)
Summary
A family vacation is interrupted when two strangers arrive in the middle of the night trying to protect themselves from a cyberattack. As the threat grows ever closer, everyone tries to defend their place in a collapsing world.
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Director and screenwriter Sam Esmail (Mr Robot, Gaslit) invites Netflix subscribers to immerse themselves in an apocalyptic tale with this year-end film powered by a five-star cast. In The World After Us, Julia Roberts stars alongside Mahershala Ali and Ethan Hawke to bring to life characters who face the unfathomable. So it's not a classic disaster film, but a psychological thriller that examines how normal people react when their world is turned upside down.
Esmail's direction and script are meticulous and the film takes time to ease the tensions that grow between the protagonists as their situation worsens. We then get a film that creates discomfort, makes the viewer more in tune with the characters and makes you think. The pace of the feature may therefore seem too slow for some, but will convince others that the game is worth the effort.
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An exciting series: The Gilded Age (Warner Pass on Prime Video)
Summary
In 1882, young Marian Brook left Pennsylvania after her father's death to settle with her aristocratic aunts in New York. Accompanied by Peggy Scott, an aspiring writer, Marian discovers high society and finds herself in the middle of a conflict between one of her aunts and her neighbors, the ambitious railroad magnate George Russel and his wife Bertha.
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After Downton Abbey, screenwriter Julian Fellowes invites us to discover America's Golden Age through characters that develop within New York's high society. We then follow the ups and downs of their daily lives as each tries to shine more than the other and find a place for themselves in a society where the nouveau riche clash with the heirs of the old days.
The dialogue is exquisite, the cast is fantastic (Christine Baranski, Carrie Coon, Cynthia Nixon…), the sets and costumes are magnificent… In short, the series sometimes resembles a little too much Downton Abbey (especially in the journey). of its characters), but it is still a pure pleasure that we enjoy consuming episode after episode. Season 2 just ended. So don't hesitate to play through the series during the holidays, it's the ideal cure for the end-of-year blues!
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A Sulfur Film: Saltburn (Prime Video)
Summary
Student Oliver Quick, struggling to find his place at Oxford University, is drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who takes him to Saltburn, his vast estate, for a summer he won't see soon eccentric family, invites forgetfulness.
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With Saltburn, director Emerald Fennell, who won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 2021 for “Promising Young Woman”, signs a new irreverent and provocative film that never fails to get its viewers talking. In it, Barry Keoghan, in the form of a figure as mysterious as he is impressive, faces a gallery of actors, each better than the last.
We don't want to say too much about Saltburn so as not to spoil the pleasure of discovering this film, but its colorful universe, its way of constantly being in excess and its dark, biting humor will be sure to please the viewers who love it. enjoyed the story with growing tension. In this feature film, every scene reveals a new surprise and the scenario constantly provokes the viewer, until an ending that leaves you speechless.
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