From football to basketball to American football, three high-profile biopics land this week, one of which stands out: “Colin in Black and White”.
Time change, pouring rain, seasonal laziness: the home-based trend is emerging. But the platforms allow us to maintain the illusion of effort while remaining under a plaid this week, with 3 sports series with more than satisfactory potential.
Apple tv+ propose “Swagger”, 10 episodes inspired by the life of NBA basketball player Kevin Durant.
On Prime Video, football is in the spotlight with legend Diego Maradona. From his childhood to his setbacks and triumphs, the life of the Golden Boy is traced, also through fiction, in “Maradona, blessed dream”, barely released and already renewed for a second season.
Bande-annonce “Maradona, blessed dream”
Netflix also participates in the sporting wave by leaving “Colin in Black and White”, probably the most aesthetically interesting of the trio. Focused on the adolescence of American quarterback Colin Kaepernick, the 6 episodes reveal the elements that led him, years later, at the opening of a match, to drop one knee to the ground in protest of American racism.
With the craftsmanship of the splendid Ava DuVernay and the narration of Kaepernick himself, “Colin in Black and White” oscillates between a slick tone and assertive political outbursts, in an engaging tale of what it means to grow up being black in the dark. United States.
Bande-annonce “Colin in Black and White”
“Colin in Black and White”
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Ava DuVernay
Completed in 2021
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