Every day, find the program of films and series to see on TV. Tonight: a cult film by John Ford, the Splendid ski troupe and a new TV movie on Down’s syndrome with Ary Abittan and Julie de Bona.
THE FILM OF THE DAY
In 1956, The Prisoner of the Desert marked John Ford’s return to his favorite genre. By adapting the eponymous novel by Alan Le May, he stages a major western – both complex and modern. His camera sublimates the desert landscapes of Monument Valley, whose beauty contrasts radically with the dark personality of the protagonist played by John Wayne.
For their 16th collaboration, John Ford offers his favorite actor his best role: that of a man thirsty for revenge, racist, violent and unscrupulous. In addition, the director represents the Indian people with a dignity that the classic western has too often taken away from them.
Considered John Ford’s masterpiece, both in its themes and in its aesthetics, The Prisoner of the Desert has become a reference for many New Hollywood filmmakers such as Tarantino, Scorsese and Wim Wenders. Quintessence of Fordian cinema, it is therefore one of the best westerns of all time, as evidenced by its prestigious average of spectator ratings of 4/5 on AlloCiné.
The Prisoner of the Desert by John Ford with John Wayne, Natalie Wood, Jeffrey Hunter…
Tonight on C8 at 9:15 p.m.
ALSO ON TV TONIGHT
TF1 – 9:10 p.m.
Les Bronzés are skiing by Patrice Leconte with Michel Blanc, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier…
After Club Méditerranée, Les Bronzés find themselves in winter sports. They will still live other sentimental problems, and misadventures. The team will even get lost in the mountains.
France 3 – 9:10 p.m.
Alex Hugo with Samuel Le Bihan, Lionel Astier, Caroline Baehr…
From 10 years old
Season 4 Episode 1: Alex is warned of the runaway of two young boys aged 12 and 10, who left with a pistol stolen from their father, a soldier who had just returned from Mali. For Alex, this story has a special resonance. The next day, the corpse of a young woman murdered by a bullet to the heart rises to the surface of a lake in the valley…
M6 – 9:10 p.m.
Learn to love yourself by Stéphanie Pillonca with Ary Abittan, Julie de Bona, Youssef Hajdi…
Frank is a father whose dreams will be turned upside down by the birth of his daughter with Down syndrome. How will he cope with the small and large sacrifices that this new life imposes on him?
W9 – 9:05 p.m.
Ice Age by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha with Gérard Lanvin, Elie Semoun, Vincent Cassel…
Twenty thousand years before our era, when Scrat, a stubborn rodent, splits the pack ice and triggers a new Ice Age, a vast cohort of mammals assembles and begins to migrate south. Manny, a lonely mammoth who does as he pleases, chooses to go north and is soon joined by Sid, a talkative little sloth in search of a protector.
The latter soon forces him to take in a human baby, Roshan, whom his mother entrusted to them before dying, and to bring it back to his father, a nomadic hunter who has gone north. On their way, the two friends will have to protect Roshan from Diego, a saber-toothed tiger charged by his leader Soto to capture the baby.
TFX – 9:05 PM
Dragon Ball Super: Broly by Tatsuya Nagamine with Patrick Borg, Eric Legrand, Mark Lesser…
From 10 years old
Goku and Vegeta face a new enemy, the Legendary Super Saiyan Broly, in an explosive fight to save our planet.
NRJ12 – 9:10 p.m.
Very first time of Noémie Saglio and Maxime Govare with Pio Marmaï, Lannick Gautry, Adrianna Gradziel…
From 10 years old
Jérémie, 34, emerges in an unfamiliar apartment alongside Adna, a lovely Swedish girl who is as funny as she is endearing. The beginning of a fairy tale? Nothing is less certain because Jérémie is about to get married… to Antoine.