While the weather in August does not look better than that of July,
20 Minutes
has selected seven series where the sun bumps to put in a summer atmosphere.
Embark for the island of Procida with "Generation 56k"
La dolce vita just a click away!
Generation 56k
, available on Netflix, takes place over two timelines. Directed by Francesco Ebbasta, this romantic comedy follows five classmates, three boys and two girls. Direction the beautiful sunny little island of Procida, off the coast of Naples, at the end of the 1990s first, these adolescents discover at the same time the beginnings of the World Wide Web and the first emotions of love. Among them, Mathilde and Daniel turn around and even offer their first kiss, before losing sight of each other. Nowadays, then, Daniel, single, relies on a dating app to find a soul mate. Chance will put Mathilde back on her path. A modern fairy tale fresh and sweet like a small glass of Limoncello.
A pool party, "Three meters above the sky"
Did you like The Grind, that MTV show from the late 1990s where you saw pretty girls and muscular boys jiggling around on sunny beaches?
So,
Three meters above the sky,
available on Netflix,
is exactly what you need. This Italian romance, as tasteless as this show, takes place under the blazing sun of Cesenatico, a seaside resort on the Italian Adriatic coast. Very free adaptation of the successful novel by Federico Moccia tells the love story between Summer, a young mixed-race girl, brilliant studious and modest, and Ale, a bad boy motorcycle champion from a wealthy family. Around the two lovebirds revolve Edo and Sofia, Summer's best friends, both in love with the sublime mestizo, and Dario, annoyed to learn that Sofia is a lesbian. To sip with a distracted eye like a summer love that we will quickly forget for its soundtrack which combines nostalgic jazz like Summer by Bruno Martino, great classics of Italian music, indie music like Tame Impala and trap hits. .
Holidays of hell with "The White Lotus"
HBO's summer nugget currently airing on OCS City!
Almost ten years after the unforgettable
Enlightened
, a series created with Laura Dern, Mike White takes the viewer into a seemingly heavenly hotel in Havai.
The White Lotues follows a gang of wealthy vacationing tourists who multiply the whims of a luxury resort in Hawaii.
A fierce social satire that turns into a thriller brilliantly carried by Connie Britton (
Friday Night Lights
), Murray Bartlett (
Looking
) and Sydney Sweeney (
Euphoria
).
A summer at the "Red Oaks" country club
A marvel of comedy to be exhumed urgently! Red Oaks, produced by Steven Soderbergh and David Gordon Green, follows mid-1980s New Jersey to young college student David Meyers (Craig Roberts) who spends his summer at the plush country club Red Oaks as a tennis instructor for rich idlers. This distant cousin (and less whiny) of Dawson is a little lost: this aspiring director hesitates to return to his New York university at the start of the school year, his parents separate, his relationship with his girlfriend is failing and the daughter of his boss disturbs him… What follows is a warm and sincere nod to the teen movies of the eighties and nineties, supported by the presence behind the camera of directors Amy Heckerling (It gets hot at Lycée Ridgemont, Clueless) or Gregg Araki (The Doom Generation,Nowhere) and in front of the camera of comedians Paul Reiser (Mad about you) or Jennifer Gray (Dirty Dancing), stunning in her fifties, discovering her penchant for women late in life. Finding the right balance between schoolboy humor and deadpan, Red Oaks rises thanks to its gallery of touching characters in which we are really interested, all cradled by an anthology soundtrack.
A summer camp at the "Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp"
A superb series if you like the absurd humor of comedies on the American independent scene!
Almost unknown in France, David Wain and Michael Showalter's film
Wet Hot American Summer
, released in 2001, is cult on the other side of the Atlantic.
The eponymous eight-part spinoff series, available on Netflix, looks back on the early days of the film's heroes, instructors of a summer camp in the forests of the eastern United States.
A crazy and uninhibited pochade served by a crazy cast: Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, Elizabeth Banks… A heavy and gritty satire between nautical activities, first kisses and conspiracy of the American government.
A perilous summer trip to a lost corner of the United States
Cross a highway blindfolded, be buried alive in a coffin, jump off a cliff or spend the night in a haunted house… Created, written and produced by Lauren Oliver, author of the eponymous bestseller,
Panic
, available on Amazon Prime Video, features dangerous games in
Hunger Games
mode
.
The series takes place in the small town of Carp, Texas, where each summer, senior students compete in illegal games dubbed "Panic", with the outcome, a large sum of money and the prospect of get out of this lost corner.
This competition, made up of challenges each more dangerous than the next, is in the sights of the local police.
Assessment of the previous edition: two deaths.
Among the 47 candidates in the running, only one will emerge victorious.
How far will these young people be ready to go?
In the heat of a "Cruel Summer" in Texas
A psychological thriller in teen drama mode, produced by Michelle Purple and Jessica Biel (The Sinner).
Cruel Summer, available August 6 on Amazon Prime Video, follows two high school girls, Jeanette Turner and Kate Wallis (Olivia Holt and Chiara Aurelia), in a small town in Texas, for three summers in the mid-1990s. In the summer of 1993 , Jeanette is a nerd, Kate, a cool girl who ends up being kidnapped and held for months in the basement of the new deputy director.
In the summer of 1994, Jeanette became the cool girl, until Kate was found.
In the summer of 1995, Kate tries to rebuild herself while Jeanette was ostracized from all of America.
What happened to explain this descent into hell?
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