On the occasion of the coronation of the film Coda at the Oscars, here are 5 films to see on the Apple TV+ platform, the first to have ever won the prize for best film!
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This year, the Oscars were held with great fanfare in Los Angeles on the night of March 27-28.
If Will Smith’s slap in the face of Chris Rock eclipsed all the other events of the evening, it is worth paying tribute to what really matters: the cinema.
So and because Codaon Apple TV+, won the supreme Oscar, that of best film, here are some of the most beautiful films to discover on the platform.
Coda, the Siân Heder
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Remember: it was in 2014 that The Aries Family offered a dazzling success in French cinemas, even bringing a César for best female hope to Louane Emera.
Eight years later, his American version returns from the Oscars with the most beautiful statuette in his pocket.
Codait is a low-budget film directed by Siân Heder, an American writer and director.
Released in August 2021 on the AppleTV+ platform, it depicts the life of seventeen-year-old Ruby, who is the only member of her family who is not deaf — also referred to as Codaan acronym for “child of deaf adults”.
His life consists of acting as an interpreter for his parents and, every day, helping his father and brother on the family fishing boat before going to school.
When Ruby joins the high school choir, she discovers a gift for singing and falls in love with her partner Miles. Encouraged by her enthusiastic and demanding teacher to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby quickly finds herself torn between the obligations she believes she owes her family and the pursuit of her dreams.
This adaptation of The Aries Family was therefore entitled, against all odds, to the supreme reward of the Oscars: the prize for Best Picture. But that’s not all: he also received the Oscar for best adapted screenplay (the original French screenplay was signed Victoria Bedos) and earned Troy Kotsur the Oscar for best supporting actor.
Strike !
To see Coda on AppleTV+
Macbeth, de Joel Coen
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For the first time in the history of his cinematography, Joel Coen officiates solo, without his brother as co-director or co-screenwriter.
And it is clear that he managed to pass the test of fire with brilliance.
We note in passing that the filmmakers tackling William Shakespeare’s play always choose the option of overaestheticization, like Justin Kurzel in 2015 in his grandiloquent version which preferred the photo to the story or in this new version in black and white, very theatrical, whose staging is a tour de force.
With Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand and Alex Hassell in the main roles, Macbeth appropriates the iconic story of Macbeth, leader of the Scottish armies, who hatches a terrible plan with his wife to ascend the throne.
Obsessed with power, the two spouses plunge into the abyss of madness.
A film of tenuous extravagance and whose staging is spectacular, which was distributed in a few theaters in the United States and is only available in France on Apple TV+.
To see Macbeth on AppleTV+
Swan Song, de Benjamin Cleary
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Difficult to resist for long at the mere mention of the name Mahershala Ali, Oscar winner twice for his role in the films Moonlight and Green Bookon a movie poster.
This is probably what made us press play, at the mere sight of the thumbnail of Swan Song on Apple TV+. And rightly so.
Swan Songit is a brutal and at the same time very delicate drama which projects its characters into the near future, where a man, ready to do anything to spare the painful mourning which awaits his loved ones since he is suffering from an incurable disease , will be the subject of an unprecedented experience.
Shocking!
On The Rocks, de Sofia Coppola
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Laura is a young mother who reconnects with her father, whom she realizes is still behaving like a playboy bordering on misogyny.
Between this extravagant, flirty man, a little old fart and the young woman, few things in common but the birth of an adventure that will take them from one end of Manhattan to the other in search of probable secrets.
On the Rocks is Sofia Coppola’s eighth film, which she wrote with Bill Murray in mind as the lead male character.
This role, the artist imagined it by drawing inspiration from his own father figure, in the person of Francis Ford Coppola.
As for the main role, that of Laura, it is carried by the luminous Rashida Jones, close friend of the director and actress of comedies, already seen in the series The Office, Parks and Recreationbut also in movies Our Idiot Brother and funny birds among others.
To see On The Rocks on AppleTV+
Beneath the Surface by Drew Xanthopoulos
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Because we too often neglect documentaries in our columns, especially documentaries on nature, we want to repair our mistake by presenting you the sumptuous film by Drew Xanthopoulos, Beneath the surface.
We follow two doctors, Ellen Garland and Michelle Fournet, in their studies of humpback whale songs as a means of communication. While their journeys take them to two diametrically opposed places on the planet, their research shares the same desire to better understand whales, their universe and the way they communicate.
A passionate documentary, which makes you want to drop everything to live on the oceans.
See on Beneath the surface on AppleTV+
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Featured image credit: Coda via Allociné
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