Discover on television this week a great cinema classic, which disturbed when it was released before becoming a cult film at the crossroads.
What can we watch on television this week? If you have 2h10 in front of you, we warmly recommend that you watch one of the great classics of American cinema of the last three decades. It is the film that revealed Brad Pitt to the general public, but it is far from being his main interest: this feature film, noted 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, turned out to be very early on his time, and remains studied today for his modern themes and his mixture of genres. This is one of the films to see at least once in his life.
Directed by Ridley Scott, this film on the border of genres follows Louise, a waitress with a strong character who convinces her friend, Thelma, dominated by a toxic and macho husband, to go on weekends to relax. But the stay quickly turns to drama, and forces the two women to run away to Mexico …
Thelma and Louise is a feminist western, a drama and a comedy, a buddy movie and a road movie advocating the emancipation of women and the sorority in the face of male violence and the patriarchy … The film by Ridley Scott was revolutionary when it was released in 1991. The flamboyant duo formed by Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis and their alchemy Thelma and Louise A cult film that you have to have seen at least once in your life.
However, the feature film aroused controversy during its American sorite, since some were shocked that women respond to the violence of men by arms. This does not prevent the scriptwriter Callie Khouri from obtaining the Oscar for the best original screenplay, nor in the film to be rehabilitated later.
Thelma and Louise is broadcast on television this Sunday, March 9, the day after the International Women’s Rights Day. It is on the Arte channel that you will have to go, from 9 p.m., to discover it or revision it. Subsequently, it will be posted on the Arte.TV and France.TV streaming platforms, accessible for all spectators.