The amazing Netflix exclusive – review – Juanma Gonzalez

Can you be sure that the English are better than the Americans? In the case of hagiographies such as those of the deceased queen, the queenAnd stories like that Big exclusiveAlmost certainly yes. The series about Elizabeth II, in those five seasons that perhaps should be more in light of some recent events, playwright Peter Morgan combined history and series in an emblematic series for the Netflix platform. And in the case of the second film, a recently released film on the same platform about the interview that ended Prince Andrew's reputation, screenwriter Peter Moffat and director Philip Martin show that British satire covers up the lack of depth better than some of the more recent published drifts. -Cinema complaint from the United States.

The Netflix film recreates the build-up to Prince Andrew's interview amid the Jeffrey Epstein scandal

Of course in Big exclusive In fact there is for both, for the English and the Americans. The Netflix film recreates the build-up to Prince Andrew's interview in the midst of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, one of the final nails in Buckingham's coffin and, for some, the first final disappointment for a country where the royal family is particularly unwilling to face the facts. . In a country known for its aristocracy but at the same time inclined towards excitement, Listening to the Queen's favorite son explain the details of his sweats must have been some kind of peak of embarrassment.And to satisfy the hidden hunger for those sexual scandals which Buckingham sometimes knows how to serve so well.

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Big exclusive It is, based on this unwritten rule that we created ourselves, better than the forgotten American attempts to define the region with regard to the abuses of that evil elite. No one remembers anymore scandala production with Margot Robbie's inevitable take on CEO Roger AilesNot from the series Loudest voicein the same case, or dozens of other products that were more or less hastily manufactured in the middle of it wokism As a strategy marketing. It's worse, yes, than another film about a suspended conversation, which is also (but undeservedly) forgotten. Challenge: Frost/Nixon, For Ron Howard, who ignored those considerations and fell into a different kind of thinking about journalism and politics, which this guy here also wants to play with.

Big exclusive It stands out for its overall veracity and the attention the actors pay to the dynamic but manipulative script.

As a solid British production, Big exclusive It stands out for its overall veracity and the attention the actors pay to the dynamic but manipulative script. It has the scent of good British television, not the morality imposed on its American counterparts which we have chosen, interestingly, to demonstrate our thesis. Something that helps screenwriter Peter Moffat (we know of no connection to Steven Moffat, one of the revampers of another British legend, Doctor Who) parse something that is, again, quite English: the importance of a public information service to quality like this. As the BBC did in the age of social networks, cheap entertainment news and the uncontrolled Internet.

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The best thing about the film is that it is not rhetorical and depicts three working women in very different positions without being satisfied. Neither journalists Sam McAllister and Emily Maitlis (Billie Piper and Gillian Anderson, the latter the best in the whole shebang… and she's American) nor the prince's secretary, Amanda Thirsk (Keeley Hawes), are naïve heroines confronting centuries of patriarchy. Nor does Prince Andrew, played by the very inventive Rufus Sewell (in one of those controversial decisions). Pour It's made up for by the actor's decent work), he's just a disgraced and disgraced tyrant, at least as much of an absorbed, vulgar idiot as he is. They are all characters capable of a certain amount of cruelty and, in their own way, trapped in certain systems of power, which the film dissects is entertaining but never brilliant or profound.

4.9/5

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