Top Biopics to Watch on Netflix and Prime Video: Tapie, L’intervention, and Blackkklansman

Biopics are always popular and there is no shortage of choice in terms of films and series of this genre in the catalogs of streaming platforms. This evening, the CNET France editorial team invites you to discover three programs inspired by real events to watch on Netflix and Prime Video.

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Discover without further delay: Tapie, L’intervention et Blackkklansman.

What films and series should you watch or rewatch this evening on Netflix and Prime Video?

An event series: Tapie (Netflix)

Synopsis

Tapie is a mini-series which retraces the romantic destiny of an extraordinary character. Throughout its seven episodes, Laurent Lafitte slips into the skin of Bernard Tapie, through his successes and his failures.

CNET France’s opinion

Starting from his attempt to make a career in music through his chaotic professional beginnings and his rise as a businessman, this series by Tristan Séguéla (Catch-up, A happy man) and Olivier Demangel (November, Skirmishers) examines the ups and downs of Bernard Tapie’s life. It does not represent the climax of the man but rather looks at his incredible journey and his inexhaustible madness of grandeur.

Laurent Lafitte (The Little Handkerchiefs, Far from the ring road), in the guise of the central character, is unrecognizable. He is so invested in the role that we sometimes forget that he is acting and that we are not looking at images of the real Bernard Tapie. Around him, the rest of the cast is just as captivating and one of the greatest qualities of the series is the care given to the secondary characters.

Tapie, it’s the story of a man who would stop at nothing to achieve his dreams, even if it cost him dearly at times. If the series sometimes lacks nuance in its content, it offers a captivating dive into the world of a man whose ambition left its mark on the French.

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A film about little-known facts: L’intervention (Netflix)

Synopsis

1976 in Djibouti, the last French colony. Terrorists take a bus of French military children hostage and get stuck about a hundred meters from the border with Somalia. France sent a Gendarmerie sniper unit to resolve the situation. This team, as heterogeneous as it is undisciplined, will carry out a high-risk operation which will mark the birth of the GIGN.

CNET France’s opinion

This film by Fred Grivois highlights a true story that has been forgotten, that of the Loyada hostage-taking, an event that solidified the existence of the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group. By choosing to concentrate fully on the unfolding of this crisis situation for the police and the hostages, the director emphasizes the tension. The result is an effective feature film that keeps the viewer in suspense from start to finish.

Alban Lenoir is like a fish in water in the role of the captain of this team, because playing this type of muscular cop is something he is particularly fond of (we can no longer count the characters of this type that he has played ). The rest of the cast is just as effective and, if we regret that the film does not lean a little more into the political discussions surrounding the hostage taking, we appreciate the care it takes with these characters. To see without delay because L’intervention is leaving Netflix at the end of the month.

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A film about a crazy story: Blackkklansman – I infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan (Prime Video)

Synopsis

In the early 1970s, at the height of the struggle for civil rights, several race riots broke out in major cities across the United States. Ron Stallworth becomes the first Black American officer in the Colorado Springs Police Department, but his arrival is greeted with skepticism, even outright hostility. Taking his courage in both hands, Stallworth will try to move the lines and, perhaps, leave a mark in history. He then sets himself a most perilous mission: infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan to denounce its abuses.

CNET France’s opinion

Masterfully directed by Spike Lee (Do the right thing), Blackkklansman is a “melting pot” of genres, tones and talents. Both a pamphlet against racism and entertainment, the film is as comic as it is serious, absurd as it is shocking. Leading the way, John David Washington and Adam Driver form an explosive duo who give the film the feel of a fun buddy film with a backdrop of thriller, action and drama.

With this feature film, Lee denounces as much as he mocks, and paints the portrait of an America of the 70s which has many similarities with that of today, particularly at the time of the film’s release in 2018 , while Donald Trump is still in the White House. Spike Lee has never had his tongue in his pocket, and with Blackkklansman he demonstrates once again that his voice is one of the most important in Hollywood.