Scrolling through this thread trying to find something fun to watch, comes across this:
Not a series but we watched An Off-Day Game, a Malayalam art film that Netflix is carrying for some reason (with subtitles) and thought it was great. For a fairly low-budget film, the shots are gorgeous and the story is brutal but reveals itself gradually. Basically, it's about four middle-aged guys who get drunk on an election day [which are holidays in Kerala] and the way their dark sides are progressively revealed in the way they treat each other. It probably helps to have a basic understanding of Kerala politics and Indian caste and colour prejudices and discrimination. (Broadly, the two main political coalitions are a coalition led by the Communists who are probably the most anti-caste party and a Congress-led coalition who would be centre-left by mainstream Indian standards but function as the more right-wing side in the context of Kerala.)
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), 30. december 2017 03:26 (seven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I've been looking for this everywhere, the director then won the Tiger Award at Rotterdam for his followup film Sexy Durga, which was on my top ten last year. Netflix is weird.
Also, have just started on Terrace House.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 25 August 2018 09:16 (five years ago) link
Oh, it doesn't really matter, but I also saw that ten months ago I posted a comment about what I used to watch with me ex-girlfriend and how cool she was. Now we are moving in together and watching cool Japanese reality shows :)
― Frederik B, Saturday, 25 August 2018 09:24 (five years ago) link
Ghoul, a Netflix India horror co-production with the makers of Sinister, Insidious, etc, about a black site for detaining Muslims in a near-future Fascist India is good.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 27 August 2018 08:32 (five years ago) link
(finally watching the movie of GOMORRAH on mubi)
― mark s, Monday, 27 August 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
U.S. Netflix seems very well loaded with South Asian content; anybody know why?
― mick signals, Monday, 27 August 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
I have no idea, but it's the same in Denmark and I'm planning to watch a whole bunch of it. Saw Chauthi Koot yesterday, and it was really interesting. On the watch list is also Court, Ajji, Masaan, Dhoobi Ghat, Thithi and Peepli Live.
If anyone knows something I'd love to read it. It's really weird, but someone, somewhere, somehow, made a good deal to bring the best of new Indian art house cinemas to Netflix. For some reason.
― Frederik B, Monday, 27 August 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
Winning market share in India is one of Netflix’s top priorities, and something they’re currently failing to do as quickly as they wanted, so it’s an area of great investment for them. I guess it’s easier to build credibility if you’re competing against Zee, etc, with the diaspora as well.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 27 August 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link
That sorta makes sense and there might be similar reasons as to why there's so much Korean and Japanese content. I still don't quite get why you would buy and show films such as Chauthi Koot and An Offday Game, those are minuscule art films. Oh well, I love it.
― Frederik B, Monday, 27 August 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
Expat communities as well, lots of Indians and and Koreans in lots of markets around the world. Hulu, in the early days of subscription went big on Korean content as Korean Americans was a big enough niche without any designs on going overseas.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 27 August 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
Second series of Au Service de la France is up and while not as immediate as the first hits it's stride about 4 or 5 eps in. Excellent stuff.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Monday, 27 August 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
wasn't feeling series 2 as much, but the red telephone gag did make me laugh for 2 minutes straight, and mary jo is awesome.
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 10:53 (five years ago) link
Most enjoyable thing I've seen this year is 'A Korean Odyssey' Fun, the clothes were great, and the guy who plays Devil King Woo is terrific.
'Something in the Rain' is good too, be interested in knowing if it's a realistic portrayal of workplace dynamics in Korea. Also all the characters seem to stay up drinking half the night p much every day!!
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 13:22 (five years ago) link
I know we've already been over it, but it blows my mind that Netflix has Gandu available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6vqxPLxkUE
Only in India...
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 14:06 (five years ago) link
i am now watching gomorrah the TV series as advised by calzino ages ago (on amazon prime arrow free 7-day trial rather than netflix)
― mark s, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
Naples looks amazing in Gomorrah, probably the true star of the show really.
― calzino, Sunday, October 15, 2017 6:05 PM (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^cosine this totally, urban or rural
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
tfw the chief top villain physically reminds you very much of someone you know who is sweet and by nature unvillainous
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
some of the flats in gomorrah sort look like the pre-refurb Park Hill flats in Sheffield, but brutalist concrete decays differently in the Mediterranean sun or something, and their slums in the sky look way more sexy! I never got into S3 of this, but this was more to do with tv series burnout or something. Apparently some of S4 is being filmed in London.
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
Glad to hear there's a new season coming, this was probably my favorite show that I watched recently
― badg, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
there's some fantastic gang bosses in this, in some cases they look like factory workers that have just won 30k on a scratchcard last week.
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
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that Don Salvatore though, he doesn't even smoke proper tabs!
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
https://www.pieandbovril.com/forum/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=http://www.studiopedagogicopavese.org/images/criminologia/Gomorra/salvatore_conte.jpg&key=28747f0d750affb6bdd6b6a4b49c0044daf65d14d9d050789b58791865d05e5a
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
whole lotta vapin goin on
this is not a good photo (you can' t see his pointy ears) but i love* the long-haired gang member -- he also reminds me a bit of a friendhttps://occ-0-901-999.1.nflxso.net/art/f7dd9/f95d5c6539c7a41bb3588f98c90299a7c76f7dd9.jpg
*you know what i mean, everyone is terrible
― mark s, Thursday, 30 August 2018 08:41 (five years ago) link
here he is with his ears -- his name's zecchinetta
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sw0mln7mcQ4/VGeYv35_wgI/AAAAAAAADOM/JH4Wf3f0gyM/s1600/Zechinetti.jpg
― mark s, Thursday, 30 August 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
typical ageing raver!
― calzino, Thursday, 30 August 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
"imboscata"
― mark s, Thursday, 30 August 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
an interesting thing in gomorrah series one -- i'd have to rewatch to firm up how i feel abt it, and whether it "works" -- is there's an odd mobility to yr feel for some of the main characters, not just yr identification with them but how on top of their own story you feel they are. partly this is bcz the action takes place over several years, and two or three of them grow up and grow hard and perhaps grow "bad" (a very relative idea in this drama), and their relative capabilities w.r.t. one another shift
(don't spoiler me! i'm watching e12 s1 right now -- i think i know how it will end but i could be completely wrong!)
― mark s, Friday, 31 August 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
series two is nuts
― mark s, Saturday, 1 September 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
LA MANTE!
bcz a friend came to stay who also likes this kind of stuff but between us we'd watched nearly everything except this
it's bad! hannibal lecter retread except hannibal is an elegant enigmatic lady of stonefaced sorrows and clarice starling is her son
i: everyone's house is VAST and FANCY! evidently kevin mcloud was on hand when it was designed and didn't believe they'd get it finished before the ep endedii: lol turning a chateau into a makeshift lecter-cage (who is tending the GARDEN?) iii: the key tec -- the son -- is a charisma-free pod iv: the lecter lady's name is (and this is honestly where suspension of critical faculties turned into hooting disbelief) MRS CARROT
― mark s, Friday, 26 October 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
I would watch this if she were a large animate carrot who is a vegetarian cannibal.
― mick signals, Friday, 26 October 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
If you haven’t reached the end yet, it gets even worse.
I like Carol Bouquet and Frederique Bel but this was ghastly and, in the end, enormously offensive.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 26 October 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
http://imgur.com/FfA3gdUl.png
― mick signals, Friday, 26 October 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
i like how three of the six-strong crime team never do anything and one of them never says anything either
― mark s, Friday, 26 October 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
very feeble of french to have no word for copycat
― mark s, Friday, 26 October 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
ok lol the commissioner just said "why not bring hannibal lecter onto the team?", which is brass balls chutzpah on the part of the scriptwriter
― mark s, Friday, 26 October 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
anyone watch dad of light yet
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Tuesday, December 19, 2017 11:38 PM (ten months ago)
somehow i watched all of dad light three times, at least
― Karl Malone, Friday, 26 October 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
all of dad of light
very feeble of french to have no word for copycat― mark s, Saturday, 27 October 2018 8:26 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mark s, Saturday, 27 October 2018 8:26 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Of course they do but Le Copiechat is banned by L’Acadamie Française.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 26 October 2018 22:35 (five years ago) link
CALL MY AGENT SEASON TROIS BEECHES
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Saturday, 12 January 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link
its perfect herself fodder she pours wine down her and snorts laughing and i can get the ironing done unencumbered
also everyone kills it and the guest roles are great
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Saturday, 12 January 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
it is the best show, genuinely surprising and moving
noemie is managing to steal the entire series imo
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 12 January 2019 21:27 (five years ago) link
^ good recommendation imo.
― Fizzles, Monday, 14 January 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
DEADWIND (= finnish)
my trivial pleasure is whenever the cops shout "police" they have to shout "poliisi!" which sounds like "policey!"
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
deadwind update: the two little girls whose mum died are heartbreaking, esp.the smaller one :(
― mark s, Thursday, 18 July 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
Oh man, I watched one episode of La Mante and seeing this thread it looks like I should stop right now.
― Yerac, Thursday, 18 July 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
The French also have no french word for 'weekend" and...there are lots of jokes there.
― Yerac, Thursday, 18 July 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
her estranged son DAMIEN CARROT
― mark s, Thursday, 18 July 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
deadwind update update: a key strand in this story is ZONING
― mark s, Thursday, 18 July 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
deadline theme is VERY like judy nylon's "information rain" off of pal judy
― mark s, Friday, 19 July 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
New season of Money Heist!
― Yerac, Monday, 22 July 2019 00:29 (four years ago) link
Is Trapped (the Icelandic series) on Netflix? I just watched Season 2 on Amazon Prime and it's really good.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 22 July 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link