At 9:05 p.m., on France 3. If he is still the favorite male personality of the French, for the third year in a row according to the annual survey of the “Journal du dimanche”, Jean-Jacques Goldman was not someone easy to defend in the 1980s. Especially when you were a young journalist passionate about song. Didier Varrod was one of them, and does not hide it by starting his documentary on the artist.
An assumed bias, a subjective vision that gives a passionate and exciting film. Because the documentary film maker, to whom we also owe beautiful portraits of Renaud, Coluche, Daniel Balavoine, Johnny Hallyday or Patrick Bruel, knows Goldman by heart and wants to show that the singer is one of the greatest authors of his time , far from the image of a tasteless tube faucet despised by the press. The radio charred Goldman’s hits by bludgeoning them. The documentary makes rediscover with happiness its texts, the almost hidden meaning of “Like you” on the deportation, “Envole-moi”, on the school integration tool, “Life by proxy”, on what we did not yet call France from below, and even “Minoritaire” where Goldman laughs at rockers who will never accept it, when he himself started in a cult French progressive rock group in the midst of 1970s, Taï Phong.
His major repertoire is transcended here by magical covers performed in the studio by Vincent Delerm, Gaëtan Roussel, Idir and his daughter, as well as the young Fishbach. You won’t listen to Goldman the same way again after that.
At 9:05 pm, on France 4. Who is the number one comic between Coluche, Florence Foresti or Pierre Desproges? For more than two and a half hours, the time to get to know the favorite humorist of the French, Michel Drucker welcomes the biggest laughing stars during this program whose first broadcast dates back to February 2, on France 2. Some guests, like Laurent Gerra or the trio Laroque, Robin and Palmade, in particular, replay with some emotion some of their best sketches.
Between two performances, video extracts from cult moments are broadcast for our greatest happiness, in particular the irresistible parody of the “Fan School” of Dummies.
Between tributes, touching memories and new encounters, Michel Drucker and his guests and friends – Anne Roumanoff, Michèle Bernier, Bodin’s and so many others – gradually reveal together the 50 humorists that the French voted for in an Ifop poll carried out in January.
At 10:45 p.m., on Arte. With the slow “Saving All My Love For You”, the incredible voice of Whitney Houston, trained in church with gospel and from the ghetto of Newark, in New Jersey, bursts and seduces the ears of the whole world. His eponymous debut album, sold 25 million copies worldwide, thirteen times platinum, contains no less than four absolute hits.
Spotted at 18 in a nightclub, the star sees his career take off just four years later. However, just after her global tour of 1999, it is the beginning of the end for the singer, who will be found dead of an overdose, on February 11, 2012, in Los Angeles. How could such a big star, “which has more hits than the Beatles”, have been able to pass from the firmament to the fall?
In this documentary, the authors tell a precise story of this extraordinary destiny. There are images from private archives, particularly touching as a child and in his early days, but also testimonies from his closest relatives.
“Whitney: Can I Be Me”, unseen American documentary (2017) by Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal. (1 h 40)
At 9:05 p.m., on Canal +. Now installed at the castle with Princess Aurora (Elle Fanning), on whom she looked after when she was little, Maleficent, embodied by actress Angelina Jolie, tries to preserve the balance between the world of humans and that of magical creatures including it belongs. But the wicked wife of the king and the winged fairies, who live hidden in the moor and want to rally Maleficent to their cause, will multiply the bellicose actions and push towards a war that seems inevitable …
This sequel to the formidable “Maleficent” (2014) is much more geared towards young audiences, at the expense of the psychological resources that were the strength of the first opus.
On the menu: a lot of kitschy special effects, creatures that are not always successful and a more agreed war plot. The film takes on its full dimension when it focuses on the most tortured aspects of its main character.
“Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”, an unreleased American fantasy film by Joachim Ronning (2019), with Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer… (1 h 59)
At 8.50pm, on France 5. From Jamaica we know its green forests, its white sandy beaches and its reggae. However, for the inhabitants of the island, life is not that described on postcards.
Throughout the documentary, we set off to meet locals, who we follow on winding roads: we follow a grandfather and his grandson on their journey to reach their coffee plantation, and a traveling record store that walks the cities of the island to shine its music.
“The roads of the impossible. Jamaica: the island of the blue mountains ”, new documentary series (2020), directed by Julien Boluen and Jean-Christophe Brisard. (50 min)
Source: https://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/tv/programme-tv-du-vendredi-17-juillet-notre-selection-17-07-2020-8354505.php
Jean-Jacques Goldman, Les Enfoirés, Chanson, Nathalie Goldman, France 3
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