To the romcom Love Actually is to follow 9:10 p.m. on TF1. In London and in the South of France. A few weeks before Christmas, men and women, whom fate had more or less mistreated, (re)discover, each in their own way, true love… Passing for the first time behind the camera, Richard Curtis, inspired screenwriter of ” Love at first sight in Notting Hill “, book” The “ultimate romance declined in nine Love stories which intertwine nicely. Did you say marshmallow? Maybe… but it’s damn addictive and served by a premium cast.
At 9:10 p.m. on France 2 we watch comedy rebels. Ex-Miss Pas-de-Calais 2005, Sandra is back with her mother, guardian of the Boulogne-Sur-Mer campsite. His dream life in the sun of the Riviera made pschitt. The beauty is hired at the local fish cannery where she meets Nadine and Marylin, her chain neighbours. Following a quarrel with Jean-Louis, the harasser foreman, the trio find themselves with a corpse on their arms and a bag full of dirty money. Rififi in sight… Cécile de France, Audrey Lamy and Yolande Moreau delight us with their proles characters with a cheerful DNA, one foot at Ken Loach, the other at Tarantino.
France 5 proposes at 8:55 p.m. the report The factory of lies. While Russian bombings are turning Ukrainian cities into rubble, across the border the Kremlin is waging another war that uses a weapon of mass destruction: fake news. The attacks stem from a strategy theorized for a decade and directly carried out by the Russian general staff under the orders of Vladimir Putin. The new arsenal is multiple and protean: social networks, state media, influencers, trolls and bots. This slow and discreet offensive is spreading all over the world. The Kremlin has thus succeeded in rocking Western democracies and influencing political opinions.
We end this selection with the film Stop me if you can at 8:55 p.m. on until The fabulous destiny of a young American who, under various carefully developed identities, established himself as one of the most ingenious and daring fraudsters ever prosecuted by international justice… The story is true but worthy of a tale for (big) children. With beating hearts, we embark from the first images for Master Spielberg’s wonderland, thrilled by a high-flying team who, from Tom Hanks to Christopher Walken, make this game of masks and sleight of hand a slice of dream and jubilant cinema.
Sarah Ibri