The movie: “The Prince of New York 2” on Amazon prime video
Eddie Murphy, it’s the 80s. The Murphy decade. At 23, the comedian of Saturday Night Live, the famous American comedy TV show, is propelled to the rank of super star with the detective comedy “The Cop of Beverly Hills” (1984), phenomenal success at the global box office. His other big hit of the 80s is “A Prince in New York” (1988). A romantic comedy, in which he plays a prince, funny and charming, who does not intend to allow an arranged marriage to be imposed in his distant African kingdom of Zamunda.
“A Prince of New York 2”, directed by Craig Brewer, is an African tale without serious, blue flower love story, praise of feminist modernity against the sexist patriarchal tradition. And Eddie Murphy, prince become king, is there more fragile, more tender, more vulnerable, crossed by an infinite melancholy.
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The French and free series: “Cités” on TikTok
Édith Piaf, La Fontaine, Félix Éboué or George Sand: so many great names in French culture, so many names that mark the geography of France, especially in the suburbs. It is to show the link between youth and this cultural heritage that the rapper, author and director Abd Al Malik releases “Cities”, where we follow a band of young people surveying places of everyday life marked by culture, from a place Louis-Aragon at an Albert-Camus college.
Particularity of this series, it was entirely designed for the social network TikTok, a first according to its creator. It thus consists of 12 episodes of 60 seconds (the maximum length of a TikTok video), all shot on the iPhone and in vertical format. It includes the tools and codes of the application, its animated filters or its music.
“Cities” is available for free on Amazon Prime Video’s TikTok account, @primevideofr
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Le documentaire : “I got a story to tell” sur Netflix
Christopher Wallace became known to the world by becoming The Notorious BIG, which had established itself on the American and world rap scene in 1994. The Notorious BIG entered legend when he was assassinated on March 9, 1997 in Los Angeles. Angeles, in circumstances similar to the death of his friend and rival Tupac Shakur, and whose sponsors are still unknown today.
The Netflix documentary “I got a story to tell” does not go into detail about the circumstances of the assassination, but rather chronicles the life of the Brooklyn rapper. We discover how this son of a teacher, from Jamaican immigration, had plunged into the sale of drugs, but also how rap helped him out.
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As much as a description of the musician’s life, the documentary is also a description of Brooklyn in the 80s and 90s, and of hip-hop culture. A whole section of American black history to (re) discover.
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