“Released”

Nora is a teenager from a wealthy family with her parents on the verge of separation, who will spend the summer with her relatives in her grandmother’s mansion with a swimming pool, who suffers from Alzheimer’s. The appearance of Libertad, the daughter of the Colombian maid, older, pointed and insolent than Nora, and with whom she befriends, will completely change her Christmas routine. First feature by the Spanish screenwriter and director Clara Roquet, “Libertad” is a film that follows familiar paths (the dissatisfactions, concerns and rebelliousness of adolescence, the friendships that give life new perspectives) with familiar characters hand in hand, but with sensitivity, emotional modesty and knowledge of the way of being and the psychology of young people in the “difficult age”, as they used to say. María Morera in Nora and Nicolle García in Libertad have very appropriate performances for their respective characters. (You can read the review here.)

“Paradise Highway – Haunted”

Even the best and most accomplished actresses make mistakes. Now it has happened to Juliette Binoche, who in “Paradise Highway — Persecuted”, by Anna Gutto, personifies, in three strokes and with a very insecure Canadian accent, Sally, a lonely truck driver who gets into a dangerous mess with a minor destined for to prostitution. being chased by the couple of pimps he was destined for and by two FBI agents. This “whistleblower”-wrapped “thriller” is see-through and ramshackle, full of narrative, emotional, characterization, and visual clichés, with a twist ending an hour away, and it goes on much longer than it should and was justified. . Morgan Freeman plays the older, beaten-up FBI agent in a “call” performance.

“Kaamelott: The First Chapter”

Created in 2005 by Alexandre Astier, Alain Kapauff and Jean-Yves Robin, “Kaamelott” is a comedy television series set in the time of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, it aired until 2009 and became one of the More popular. in the world History of French television (it is unreleased in Portugal but can be seen in its entirety on YouTube). Directed and written by Alexandre Astier, who plays, as usual, the role of King Arthur, “Kaamelott: The First Chapter” is the opening film of a trilogy, and takes place 10 years after the end of the last season of the Serie. ., recounting the return of the monarch to Kaamelott, after having renounced the throne and left the government of the kingdom in the hands of Lancelot, who became a tyrant. (You can read the review here.)