Wong Kar-wai's series and a Jane Austen drama are among June's seven notable new releases.
The Hong Kong director premieres 'Blossoms Shanghai' on Filmin
BarcelonaAfter a very strong April in terms of series, May will be relatively quiet. There are few premieres, but they're well-chosen, with well-known names like Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, and Jacob Elordi.
May 1st
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After the cult comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, comedian and screenwriter Tina Fey launches a new series that follows the friendship of three couples over the course of a year. Based on the 1981 film directed by Alan Alda, the miniseries delves into the dynamics of a group of friends who spend a few days together on vacation each season. Their friendship overlaps with the emotional ups and downs of the three marriages. Fey, who in addition to writing the series with Lang Fisher (Never Have I Ever) and Tracey Wigfield (The Mindy Project) is also one of the main characters, playing Katie, married to Jack (Will Forte) and the natural leader of the group of friends. Steve Carell plays Nick, who is going through a crisis with Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver). The group is rounded out by Colman Domingo and Marco Calvani, who play Danny and Claude, who are trying to balance the responsibilities of adult life with the joy of living.
May 8
In the month of Eurovision, Movistar Plus+ remembers the first time Spain won the competition. It was in 1968 with Massiel and the song The, the, the, a song not without controversy because it was originally scheduled to be sung by Joan Manuel Serrat. The singer from Poble-sec was sidelined when he demanded to be able to perform the song in Catalan, a demand that displeased both TVE and the Franco regime. Carolina Yuste plays Massiel, while Marcel Borràs brings the Catalan singer-songwriter to life. The cast is rounded out by Alex Brendemühl, who plays Artur Kaps, creative director of the era's greatest television shows, and Patrick Criado, who plays Esteban Guerra, a young television executive tasked with fulfilling Franco's wish for Spain to win Eurovision.
May 19
There are few products more effective than Agatha Christie mysteries and their television adaptations. One of the most recent is the one now being released on Movistar Plus+, which has been quite well received by British critics and features some very familiar faces. Matthew Rhys (The Americans) is Inspector Leach, who in 1936 is charged with investigating a widow, Lady Tressilian, played by Anjelica Huston. The death becomes entangled with the love life of a tennis star, a failed suicide, and an accusation of theft.
May 22
Miniseries that cast a critical eye on the rich have become a trend. One of Netflix's big bets for this month follows that line. Mermaids the Devon (Meghann Fahy, The White Lotus) travels to an exclusive island in search of his younger sister, Simone (Milly Alcock, The House of the Dragon), who is absolutely abducted by her boss, Michaela, a sociality played by Julianne Moore. Over the course of one weekend, Devon and Michaela become mortal enemies.
May 28
FollowingEuphoria, Jacob Elordi became a worldwide star, a status he reaffirmed by starring in films such as Saltburn, Priscilla or the next adaptation of Wuthering HeightsBetween films, he has also found time to make the miniseries The narrow path, an adaptation of the novel by Australian author Robert Flanagan, which chronicled some of his father's experiences during World War II. Elordi plays Dorrigo Evans, an Australian officer and doctor who, during World War II, is captured by the Japanese as a prisoner of war and forced to work on the construction of the railway between Burma and Thailand. During his days in captivity, a memory repeatedly returns to his mind: the affair he had with his uncle's wife.
May 29
Scott Frank, creator of the super hit Queen's Gambit, has a new miniseries on Netflix, a production that could join the long list of fictions about strange but brilliant British investigators. Matthew Goode (Downton Abbey) plays Detective Carl Morck, an Englishman living in Edinburgh who has the ability to drive everyone crazy. Traumatized by a shooting that killed a young officer and left his partner paralyzed, Morck returns to work to take charge of a new police unit. Department Q – the title of the series – is tasked with investigating unsolved cases, an initiative aimed at improving the public image of the Scottish police force. The miniseries is an adaptation of a series of novels by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen. In the leap to the big screen, the story's main location has been changed, which in the books is Copenhagen.
