While we may find it great that there are paid video on demand platforms to find movies, series and documentaries, we could almost forget the good old free replay sites. However, they continue to amaze, as demonstrated by these three masterpieces created by women, still available for a few more weeks on Arte.tv and France Télévisions (yes, long live the public service!).
Amandine Gay’s documentary Une histoire à soi on adoption
” It is customary to tell adopted children that they were lucky to have been adopted. We should also say that people have been lucky enough to be able to become parents “, is heard in the documentary directed by Amandine Gay on adoption, A story of its own. Perhaps you have already heard of or had the opportunity to see his previous effort released in 2016 in cinemas (without the support of the CNC), illuminating it open voice, in the form of a choral portrait of several black women who tell their experiences, which allows to show the history, social construction and persistence of the race in the former colonial powers. The director, actress, author and The French afrofeminist therefore returns to using another part of her identity to deal with another major social issue with sensitivity and competence: transnational adoption. (the director herself was born under X).
In A story of its ownAmandine Gay takes the form of an ensemble film through the portrayal of several transnational adopted adults, aged between 25 and 52 : Anne-Charlotte, Joohee, Céline, Niyongira, Mathieu, born in Brazil, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, South Korea and Australia, before being adopted. They evoke their history, marked by uprooting, racism, their perception of adoption, their journey to access or not access their origins, etc. We learn a lot there and sometimes we cry with joy, sadness or anger. After its theatrical release in 2021, the documentary was broadcast on May 30, 2023 on France 2, and therefore appears to be available to play on the France Télévisions website until 6 March.
The immobile and fantastic Atlantic odyssey of Mati Diop
If Joachim du Bellay poetises “happy is he who, like Ulysses, has made a good journey” in the 16th century, in the 21st it is rather the figure of Penelope that interests the young and already so great French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop with Atlantic. The fiction of him begins on a construction site in Dakar, Senegal, where Souleiman (Ibrahima Traoré) is working on the construction of a strangely futuristic tower. After months of overdue pay, he decides to leave with other men for Europe, leaving behind the women in their lives, including Ada (Mama Sané). And for once those who remain become the true heroines of the story, without even falling into the trap of black women who are necessarily strong because they are black. When staying turns out to be at least as brave as leaving, it’s a whole other Odyssey written in the light and shadow of his camera Mati Diop. The supernatural also infiltrates, inspired by the Muslim imagery and the figure of the jinn.
This story of love, migration, loss and ghosts, crowned by the Grand Prix at the Cannes film festival in 2019, turns out to be available for free in rerun until 8 June 2023 on the Arte website.
If you missed your free watch period, this movie is also available to stream on Sooner and CineMember, and to rent or buy on Apple.tv.
Abortion as a crime in 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days by Cristian Mungiu
As we see the decline of sexual and reproductive health rights in the United States and in Poland in particular, one need not look far to imagine the real consequences on the lives of pregnant women who wish to have an abortion. Village. In 2007, at the Cannes Film Festival, the Romanian director Cristian Mungiu had just won the Palme d’Or for his film 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days around abortion.
This ultra-realistic fiction immerses us in 1987 Romania, a few years before the fall of communism. Here we are the life of Ottila and Gabita, who share a room in the university city of a small town. The second turns out to be pregnant, so the first of hers helps her enlist a certain Mr. Baby to make an angel. But their story quickly turns into a nightmare. Beyond the difficulties of access to abortion, all the more when one has few economic and social means, this poignant film questions more broadly the struggles for individual freedoms in countries with increasingly interventionist governments, above all with regard to women’s bodies and women’s minorities. A still frighteningly acute and topical feature film, available free of charge in rerun on the France Télévisions website, until 31 July 2023.
If you missed your free-watch period, this movie is also available to stream, rent, and buy on Cinetek.
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Source: Madmoizelle
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