It’s tough to keep on top of all the new series premiering on television, what with the seemingly infinite number of streamers and the content that is, in a manner of speaking (or watching), thrown against the wall to see what will stick.
This is a must-see movie if only from the standpoint that we should never forget what happened and try to make sure it doesn’t happen again, there or anywhere.
In the recent past, we’ve seen films where the protagonist seemingly turns into an animal (“Nightbitch”), is told through the eyes of the main character (“Nickel Boys”), tells an origin story (“A Complete Unknown”), is a flashback over a monumental career (“Maria”) and ends in
“The Count of Monte Cristo,” a new edition of this oft-told tale, adapted and directed by the team of Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière, is a sweepingly romantic adventure full to overflowing with love, hate, greed, betrayal, revenge and resurrection.
He’s just a kid, squashed into the back of some family’s station wagon, guitar propped against a small backpack, staring intently at the lights passing through the wet haze.
Pedro Almodóvar is very interested in human interactions, good and bad. “The Room Next Door,” the Oscar winner’s first film entirely in English, has been highly anticipated.