2024-07-28 12:13:00
Among the Olympic Europe that also reached streaming platforms, series premieres in both the documentary and fiction genres continued their course last week.
The first of them, with Paramount Plus, was the series that combines documentary and fiction under the title “Mafia Spies” which takes us back to the middle of the 20th century when the former interventionist Fidel invaded Cuba. Castro in Cuba before the revolution. January 1959, as presented in films such as “The Godfather II”, the Italian mafia with various economic interests on the island refused to lose all that heritage and ally itself with the CIA and entertainment stars such as Frank Sinatra from Las Vegas to Miami and Havana, in six chapters he explores even the most likely espionage operations in the history of the United States.
The second of them is “Time Bandits,” based on one of the favorite films of the innovative filmmaker Terry Gilliam (“Brazil”; “Doce Monos”) who in 1981 brought together the talents in front of the cameras of actors and women -actors like Sean. Connery and Shelley Duvall, who died recently, in a story immersed in the fantasy genre where a boy who does not understand his family for his love goes to study and read with a group of odd bandits who travel through portals in time.
After the critically acclaimed Max series “Our Flag Means Death”, starring and produced by Oscar winner Taika Waititi (“Jo Jo Rabbit”), knowing that he is one of the directors of the “Time Bandits” adaptation As a series premiered. on Apple TV Plus last Wednesday, as well as having none other than one of the “Friends” of the famous North American series of the same name, Lisa Kudrow, in the cast, one would have expected such a favorable reception but no, it deflates within a few minutes after watching it despite the fact that there is an interesting premise related to the ignorance caused by dependence on social networks but, also, without the dwarf bandits in the film.
Something similar happens with the premiere in series format that Netflix had last Thursday the 25th, the third premiere of “The Decameron”, yes, the classic work of Bocaccio is divided into ten stories masterfully brought to the big screen for the first time once by a celebrity. Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1971… but so weak despite his strength he would have had after a pandemic only because the author of the original text wrote it between the years 1343 and 1353 Shortly after his hometown of Florence was ravaged by the plague, he sadly deflated at the first opportunity.
With results like these last two series, it’s best to refer to the movie adaptations and leave things as they are.
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