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“Babylon – Intoxication of Ecstasy” at Paramount+
Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt in Babylon. photo
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In the realm of the senses, in the shadow of the past and under the spell of the optimization mania: what’s worth streaming.
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With the nostalgic film musical “La La Land”, US director Damien Chazelle delivered a lively homage to Hollywood in 2017. This year, the child prodigy followed up with another homage to the dream factory – but they are worlds apart. The drama “Babylon – Rush of Ecstasy” takes you back to early Hollywood in the 1920s, when the young film metropolis slid from the silent film era into the age of sound. Chazelle goes all out with lavish parties, lots of bare skin, bombastic film sets and decadent excesses.
The more than three-hour screen excess rightly bears the subtitle “Rush of Ecstasy”. Brad Pitt plays an acclaimed movie star, Margot Robbie an aspiring starlet, Jean Smart a gossip columnist in search of scandalous stories, Tobey Maguire a perfidious underworld drug lord. Jovan Adepo becomes a black trumpet virtuoso, Li Jun Li transforms into a mysterious cabaret singer. The film will be available to stream on Paramount+ starting July 22nd.
“Karen Pirie – Echoes of a Night of Murder”
Police officer Karen Pirie (Lauren Lyle) is hired by her superiors to reopen the case of murdered waitress Rosie Duff (Anna Russel-Martin) after 25 years. It’s a “cold case,” a case that hasn’t been solved. Because a podcaster dug up the unsolved crime, the police feel under pressure. During the 1996 European Football Championship, Rosie was found murdered in the early hours of a warm summer night among the tombstones of the ruins of St Andrews Cathedral. Three students came under suspicion, but give each other an alibi. “Karen Pirie – Echo of a Murder Night” is the three-part film adaptation of a novel by Scottish crime author Val McDermid and extremely exciting to the end. From July 24th in the ZDF media library.
“TerraXplore”
Beauty mania, working until you drop and performance-enhancing pills – the pressure from outside in our society is increasing. Nevertheless, many people try to be fair to everyone and everything. At what price? “Are we optimizing ourselves broken?” Psychologist Leon Windscheid investigates this question in the ZDF documentary series. The episode will be available from July 24, 2023 in the ZDFmediathek.
“Stephen Curry: Underrated”
The documentary “Stephen Curry: Underrated” tells the remarkable development story of one of the most influential, dynamic and surprising players in basketball history: Stephen Curry. The film crew follows Curry’s rise from a small-town Division I college player thought to be undersized and frail to a four-time NBA champion. The documentary will be available on Apple TV+ on July 21.