Stardust (r. Gabriel Range)

Beyond the qualities or shortcomings of this biographical film about David Bowie, the reactions around him are interesting (especially those of those who have not seen the film yet). „He doesn’t look like David at all!” Fans of the British singer complained at the sight of the main actor, Johnny Flynn. And it seems that the physical mismatch has justified a total rejection of the production that focuses on the years when the singer promoted in songs and tours alter ego Ziggy Stardust, the androgynous alien who came to share a liberating message to the human race.

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (r. George C. Wolfe)

It’s 1927, when Ma Rainey, the legendary blues singer of the time, becomes one of the first black performers to be given the chance to enter a recording studio. This film produced by Denzel Washington catapults Viola Davis among the most successful actresses at this year’s Oscars, but the campaign to promote the film has every chance to focus on another aspect of the production: Chadwick Boseman appears here in his latest role before the premature end of the end of August. The film launches on Netflix on December 18.

The Life Ahead (r. Edoardo Ponti)

Sophia Loren returns, at the age of 86 and full of vitality, to a leading role in this screenplay updated after Romain Gary’s 1975 novel, La vie devant soi (screened in 1977 with Simone Signoret ). Loren is Madame Rosa, a Holocaust survivor who cares for the children of women in the neighborhood. The heroine is challenged when asked to take care of Momo, an orphan of color, and this is the starting point of a story about hope and the future, but also about reconciliation with death. Many say the role could recommend Loren for a new Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Netflix premiere on November 13.

The Bike Thief (r. Matt Chambers)

This film released a few days ago in the competition of the Tokyo Film Festival hits very close to home because it has in the main roles the Romanian actors Alec Secăreanu and Anamaria Marinca. They play two Romanian immigrants in London, and it all starts when the couple’s difficult life ends up on the edge of a knife after the man’s stolen scooter was delivered. The film written and directed by British debutant Matt Chambers makes you wonder why the two immigrants are stubborn to live in a place that rejects them at every step and, especially, how hard life was for them in Romania if they prefer it the one in London … The Bike Thief does not currently have a distributor in Romania, but it will certainly be included in the selection of festivals in 2021.

Bridgerton (producător executiv Shonda Rhimes)

After producing some of the most long-lived and popular series in Hollywood, the well-known Shonda Rhimes is trying her hand for the first time with a vintage production. The series is based on a popular series of novels written by Julia Quinn that focus on a family of British nobility in England in the early 19th century. Just take a look at the teaser trailer (the narrator’s voice belongs to Julie Andrews) to see that Rhimes approaches everything in the revisionist and stylized style of Baz Luhrmann from Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby and, who knows, the new series may have an energy similarities. Bridgerton launches on Netflix on December 25.

The Flight Attendant (creator Steve Yockey)

For more than a decade, Kaley Cuoco’s name has been synonymous with CBS superhero The Bing Bang Theory , but things could change thanks to the miniseries The Flight Attendant . which also launches in our country, on HBO Go, on November 26. Cuoco plays Cassandra, a stewardess ready to take full advantage of her stops in the great capitals of the world. It’s just that during a stopover in Bangkok the heroine has an affair with a passenger, Alex (the Dutchman Michiel Huisman, best known for the role of Daario Naharis in Game of Thrones ), and in the morning he wakes up hung, full of blood and with the lifeless body of the man beside him. What Cassandra does then sets in motion a series of adventures that should keep us engaged during the five episodes of the miniseries.

Ludo (r. Anurag Basu)

Every year, Bollywood cinema prepares at least one masala movie (with everything, that is) for the Diwali celebration, the festival of lights that takes place in mid-November. If the service suspect is usually a blockbuster of one of the three Khans (Salman, Shah Rukh and Aamir), whose local popularity helps them move the entire Indian breath to the mall, here’s the fun moving on Netflix this year with Ludo </ em>. Directed by Anurag Basu (author of a recent Bollywood film classic, Barfi! ), the approach seems hyperkinetic, and this black comedy can boast the cast of another Indian megastar, Abishek Bachchan. in the atypical role of a criminal who kidnaps a child and realizes very quickly that he is completely overwhelmed by the situation. Netflix premiere on November 12.

Big Sky (creator David E. Kelley)

Mr. Mercedes , Big Little Lies and The Undoing are just a few of David E. Kelley’s recent titles ( Ally McBeal ) which shows that the American filmmaker has a great sense of suspense. Kelley returns to the spotlight with Big Sky , a new police series starring Ryan Phillippe as a detective who begins an investigation on his own after two teenage girls are abducted on a Montana highway. It doesn’t take long and the hero discovers that the number of missing teenagers in the same area is much higher…