VOD Festival 2024: 10 films to catch up on for just 2 euros

Furiosa, The Second Act, Memory, Love Lies Bleeding… here is the Premiere selection.

There VOD festival is back! For eight days this year (compared to four usually), it's an opportunity for moviegoers to enjoy 200 films at a reduced price from €2 to rent, and €5 to purchase. Recent films (Oppenheimer, A little something extra, Gran Turismo, Fall Guy…) or heritage (Donkey skin, The Beaches of Agnès, Love, The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob…).

At Première, we have chosen to put together a selection made up of some of our favorites from the last 15 months, films which have not necessarily been a hit at the box office but which we recommend you catch up on, if you don't haven't seen them before.

The VOD Festival takes place from Wednesday October 16 to Wednesday October 23, 2024 on eight platforms: Arte VOD, Canal VOD, Orange VOD, Filmo, Pathé home, Orange, Universciné, Viva and Première Max by Vidéofuturthe streaming service launched by Première in partnership with Viva. More information on the event website: https://fetedelavod.fr/

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Furiosa: a Mad Max sagaby George Miller

The public did not massively go to see George Miller's latest madness, and we bear collective responsibility for the announced burial of the chrome saga. So the least we can do is see and see again Furiosa on the best TV possible, with the sound turned up and eyes wide open at the spectacle offered by the 79-year-old filmmaker and his super duo of actors (Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth). We won't make ones like that anymore…

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The Second Actby Quentin Dupieux

Seeing Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Louis Garrel and Raphaël Quenard happily crossing the 4th wall at the opening of Cannes was quite gratifying. It also works on the small screen for those who have not yet watched the latest Dupieux. Like many of the director's films, The Second Act runs out of steam a little in the third, but fans of the director will appreciate this absurd and minimalist digression on cinema.

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Love Lies Bleedingof Rose Glass

Second Rose Glass film after Saint Maudwhich confirms the hopes placed in the London filmmaker. Love Lies Bleeding dives into the white trash bowels of eighties New Mexico to tell the rebellious and bloody love story between Lou, the owner of a seedy gym (Kristen Stewart, cooler than ever) and Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder ( phenomenal Katy O'Brian). Glass knits an astonishing romantic thriller, in the flashy and show-off vein of Sailor and Lulalike an old noir series à la David Goodis little by little contaminated by fantasy. Sometimes on the verge of the grotesque, but above all very singular, and frankly heady.

Memory, by Michael Franco

Accustomed to a rough cinema (Daniel y ana, Chronic) who presses where it hurts, Michel Franco cracks the armor like never before by staging the impromptu meeting of two broken souls – a woman sexually assaulted in her youth, a man suffering from a degenerative disease which makes him able to remember – which will give birth, after many shocks, to the most unexpected love story. A heartbreaking melodrama but never cutesy because it embraces the chronic instability of those close to him and embodied by a masterful duo Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, awarded in Venice for his interpretation.

The Fantastic Three, by Michael Dichter

Located in a small Ardennes town in the midst of deindustrialization, this first feature features three inseparable 13-year-old children whose little schemes, following the release from prison of the big brother of one of them, lead them into situations of more and more dangerous. An initiatory story which recounts with immense delicacy a brutal passage from childhood to adolescence by masterfully mixing teen movie, thriller and social drama and over which hovers the never overwhelming shadow of Stand by me by Rob Reiner.

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The Book of Solutionsby Michel Gondry

After years away from the big screen, Michel Gondry made his return at the end of 2023 with a comedy where Pierre Niney played his alter ego, Marc. A whimsical filmmaker who leaves to make his latest film in the Cévennes to get away from his producers, but who finds himself plunged into the chaos of his incessant ideas. A rather hilarious self-portrait of a bipolar person who makes all his colleagues sweat, a hyperactive and capricious kid who would like everyone to die as quickly as him. Very funny (Niney's comic dejection is remarkable), very touching, very Gondry.

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Mystery in Veniceby Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh concludes his – unfairly unloved – Hercule Poirot trilogy with the best and most surprising of the three. Semi-retired, the famous detective is depressed in the City of the Doges, stuffing himself with pastries, when an investigation in a magnificent, decaying and haunted Palazzo pushes him to return to service. Beautifully set to music by Hildur Guðnadóttir, Mystery in Venice offers a delicious moment of family thrill (where we meet Camille Cottin, Tina Fey and Jamie Dornan) to catch up at home.

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Olfa's Daughtersby Kaouther Ben Hania

Great film with a crazy concept, Olfa's Daughters intends to tell the complex story of this Tunisian woman, mother of four daughters, whose two eldest disappeared in troubled circumstances. To achieve this, director Kaouther Ben Hania mixes testimonies and reconstructions of life scenes, played by actresses who interpret the missing (and sometimes Olfa herself, when the emotion is too strong). An overpowering cinema device that could have stifled emotion, but on the contrary allows it to emerge with increased force. Dizzy.

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Salemby Jean-Bernard Marlin

No, it's not a Stephen King adaptation. Djibril, locked up in a psychiatric hospital, plunges into his past as a young member of a Comorian gang, and his forbidden love with Camilla, a gypsy from the rival gang. Six years later ScheherazadeJean-Bernard Marlin returns to Marseille with a Shakespearean drama mixing love and false prophets, focusing along the way on disconcerting fantasy sequences. The film then returns to the present and culminates in a poignant learning story, carried by the spontaneity of its actors, recruited during a wild casting call.

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The Lonely Castle in the Mirrorby Keiichi Hara

Young people from all walks of life find themselves trapped, passing through mirrors, in a parallel world guarded by a lupine creature. They will have to unravel the secrets of the place to get out. This rereading of fairy tales signed by the great animation director Keiichi Hara (Miss Hokusai) confronts us with the harshest anxieties of adolescence, without forgetting the beauty of the form, and without reverie prevailing over reality at any time.

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