THE MORNING LIST
On this Christmas weekend, we invite you to dance, sing, laugh, love, escape, with Harry and Meghan, Johnny and Laeticia Hallyday, Françoise Sagan, Nova… Goodbye sadness!
“Harry and Meghan”, Netflix shakes Buckingham Palace
” How did we get here ? » Everything is said (by Harry himself) from the first minute of the docuseries Harry et Meghan that Netflix offers since December 8. The younger brother of the new Prince of Wales (and future King) William, puts forward a ” bias [raciste] unconscious “ of the Windsor family to his American wife, actress and mestizo (white father and black mother).
Netflix chose dramatization for the introduction to this love story: black and white images, headlines from the Anglo-Saxon press during the “Megxit” (their departure for the United States, in 2020), after renouncing their office as Duke and Duchess of Sussex – « Queen’s fury » (Daily Mail) ; « Leaving a trail of destruction » (Daily Express) ; « Hard Exit » (New York Times). The terrible couple of the British monarchy want to give their ” Version of events “. Another media challenge for the new sovereign and father of Harry, Charles III – even if the first three episodes do not deliver startling revelations about the royal family.
Harry et Meghan share Her Majesty’s subjects. He infuriates those (many in the UK) who feel the couple are endlessly rehashing the past; but comforts those who believe that the former American actress and the prince – fifth in line to the throne – are right to raise their voices against an outdated institution.
“I am my mother’s son! », warns Harry, in reference to Lady Diana, who disappeared when he was 13 in August 1997. It’s all there. No question of letting yourself, like her, dictate your life by the pomp and circumstance of the monarchy, its servitudes, its obligations. This is the message that the couple intends to convey in this documentary, which appears at a delicate time for Charles III, who took over from his mother less than ten weeks ago. The controversy and the media buzz are not about to die down: Harry’s autobiography, Sparedue for release on January 10, 2023. C. You.
Documentary series by Liz Garbus (UK, 2022, six episodes). Streaming on Netflix.
“Johnny by Laeticia”, on M6: the family rocker
An aged man, his eyes poorly lifted: is this the image we want to keep of Johnny Hallyday, who died on December 5, 2017? Laeticia Hallyday can’t help it. She was 21 when she married him in March 1996, he was 52. Also when she asked William Karel to make a film from the five hundred hours of private videos shot during their years together, this one inevitably recounts the last years of his life. Perhaps not the most rock’n’roll (although as he gets older, Johnny seems to appreciate rock), certainly not the most controversial, but certainly the most… family-friendly.
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