For this new selection, we offer you a double dose of Seth Rogen (An American Pickle), a documentary about one of football’s great talents (Anelka: Misunderstood) and the conclusion of a post-apocalyptic series (The Rain). Don’t miss our mini-reviews!

You can still have a longer list of the releases under the “This Friday” section on the homepage.

An American Pickle

WHY

For Seth Rogen fans, you’ll be happy with An American Pickle which offers you a double dose of your favorite actor. The story is quite simple but you quickly fall in love with the two Seth Rogen and especially Herschel, who has quite a strong accent, and who finds himself disconnected from this “new” world. The culture shock is quite violent for him. His personality is a bit too harsh for the actual society. The film doesn’t spare today’s society and its social networks through several sequences, including the funny one of Herschel’s meeting with two Millennials. The film turns out to be touching and funny.

WHAT

Based on Simon Rich’s 2013 New Yorker novella, An American Pickle stars Seth Rogen as Herschel Greenbaum, a struggling laborer who immigrates to America in 1920 with dreams of building a better life for his beloved family. One day, while working at his factory job, he falls into a vat of pickles and is brined for 100 years. The brine preserves him perfectly and when he emerges in present day Brooklyn, he finds that he hasn’t aged a day. But when he seeks out his family, he is troubled to learn that his only surviving relative is his great-grandson Ben Greenbaum (also played by Rogen), a mild-mannered computer coder whom Herschel can’t even begin to understand.

WHERE

HBO Max

Anelka: Misunderstood

WHY

If you love the world of football, don’t miss this documentary about one of his greatest talents and one of his “bad boys”. Nicolas Anelka has a very strong personality and this film shows it very well. We follow the career of this French player and his many adventures including the famous Knysna strike with the French Soccer team. It also offers an interesting point of view on this affair. Throughout this documentary, we discover the man and this makes him very interesting and touching, especially through the many sequences with his family and his kids. But also with the many testimonies of his former teammates and friends.

WHAT

Bad boy of the French football, arrogant, precocious, misunderstood, scorer, unclassifiable, genius, unmanageable… Despite a having a career of almost 20 years at the highest level, Nicolas Anelka is still hard to define. From sporting feats to controversies, he remains a mysterious persona for many observers. It’s an image that Anelka himself has cultivated. 

WHERE

Netflix

The Rain – Season 3

WHY

All good things must come to an end. That’s the case with the very good series The Rain, which in addition to being the first Danish Netflix series took us to an interesting post-apocalyptic world. The point of view of the characters and their decision making are quite radical and promise a lot of surprises in this finale. We would have liked some elements to be more developed while others are quite repetitive. There is a European touch in the treatment of the story which is pleasant and the final confrontation between the sister and the brother works quite well.

WHAT

The Rain season 3 will pick up where the second season left off. Years after the rain decimated the population of Scandinavia, Simone and Rasmus find themselves at odds on how to save humanity. Rasmus wants to infect everyone with the same beta version of the virus that turned him into a superhuman, while Simone insists that there must be a cure. Will they manage to put their differences aside in order to do the right thing?

WHERE

Netflix

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