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With just three weeks until the line-up for the Cannes Film Festival 2025 is announced on April 10,Screentakes a look at the films from around the world looking increasingly likely to debut on the Croisette.

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English-language auteurs Wes Anderson, Lynne Ramsay, Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch and Kelly Reichardt could all unveil their anticipated next films at the Cannes – and if they do, it will drum up the kind of red-carpet glamour Thierry Fremaux loves.

Two years after The French Dispatch played in Competition, Anderson looks a safe bet to return with The Phoenician Scheme, a spy comedy thriller featuring...

What’s going to be this year’s “Anora”? As the Cannes Film Festival rapidly approaches, that’s the question for artistic director Thierry Fremaux and movie buffs around the world.

A month before Cannes Film Festival’s press conference, the official selection is still very much a work in progress, with little reliable information filtering through about which movies have already been invited. In fact, as of Friday — despite the volume of splashy prediction stories — it appears that only three films have so far been given a golden ticket to compete in Cannes. Variety can reveal that one of them is Jim Jarmusch’s anticipated “Father Mother Sister Brother“ starring Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver and Tom Waits.

The last edition of the festival, which Fremaux had warned would be slightly weaker due to the impact of the double Hollywood strikes, proved to be anything but. Headlined by Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning “Anora,...

The debut score for the action movieNovocaine on Rotten Tomatoes has been revealed. It continues a positive trend for Jack Quaid (The Boys), who stars in the lead role.

With its early reviews from critics ahead of its wide release on March 14, Novocaine has been given an approval rating of 92% on Rotten Tomatoes. The strong score is in line with other recent film releases featuring the actor. Earlier this year, Quaid co-starred alongside Sophie Thatcher in the horror thriller Companion, a movie that holds a Certified Fresh score of 94%. Quaid was last seen on the big screen in 2023 with his role in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, the Oscar-winning blockbuster that has an approval rating of 93%. That year, he also had a voice role in the animated hit Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, which is Certified Fresh at 95%.

Novocaine was written by Lars Jacobson, while Dan Berk and Robert Olsen directed the film.

Caroline Vignal’s It’s Raining Men follows Iris (Laure Calamy), a Parisian dentist whose stagnant marriage propels her into a whirlwind of app-driven dalliances, blending cheeky humor with poignant introspection.

The film’s premise—middle-aged desire clashing with marital complacency—echoes the French tradition of treating infidelity as a nuanced exploration of human complexity rather than a moral failing. Vignal situates this tale within a cultural landscape where Anglo-American audiences might demand judgment, yet here, the focus remains on Iris’s liberation.

The script nods to classics like Breathless in its breezy defiance of narrative rigidity, though Vignal swaps Godard’s frenetic jump cuts for lush, surreal detours, such as a spontaneous musical sequence set to the titular anthem.

This juxtaposition of grounded realism and whimsical escapism mirrors France’s ambivalence toward tradition and modernity—a tension as relevant in today’s #MeToo era as it was in the heyday of the Nouvelle Vague.

The most Oscar-nominated film this season is Emilia Pérez, which is entirely in Spanish. It landed 13 noms — smashing the record for a non-English-language film (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Roma had 10 each) and just one shy of the record for any film — including best picture. And it’s not the only non-English-language film up for the top Oscar; so, too, is the Portuguese-language I’m Still Here. Until recently, such a scenario would have been unimaginable. Then came Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite. This is the inside story of how that off-the-wall Korean film made history at the Oscars five years ago.

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, founded in 1927, was originally called the International Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. But for most of its history, it wasn’t very worldly — the vast majority of its members were based in L.A., New York or London,...

On Thursday 27 February 2025, BBC One broadcasts Antiques Road Trip!

Banged Up and Breathless Season 30 Episode 14 Episode Summary

In the upcoming episode of “Antiques Road Trip,” titled “Banged Up and Breathless,” viewers can expect a mix of adventure and excitement. James and Izzie are back, and this time they are cruising in a charming 1949 Morris Minor convertible. The classic car sets the stage for a fun-filled journey as they search for unique antiques.

The episode promises to be full of surprises. James plans to use his skills and knowledge to harness the power of breath, which hints at some interesting challenges along the way. Meanwhile, Izzie finds herself in a tricky situation, as she will have to escape from jail to make it to the auction on time. This adds an element of suspense to the episode, keeping audiences engaged as they wonder how Izzie will manage to break free.

As they travel through beautiful landscapes,...

While the official lineup of films at the Cannes Film Festival taking place in May won’t be made public until mid-April, there are already some early rumblings of what projects we should expect to see on that list and there are plenty of reasons to get excited.

That group of potential entries as compiled by Deadline includes directorial debuts with Kristen Stewart‘s “The Chronology Of Water” (still a chance it might not be completed in time), and Scarlett Johansson‘s “Eleanor The Great.”

Read More: Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Potentially Eyeing Cannes Film Festival Screening

Notable and high-profile films that are expected to screen at Cannes, pending official confirmation: Jim Jarmusch‘s latest effort “Father, Mother, Sister, Brother,” Spike Lee‘s “Highest 2 Lowest” (a remake of the Akira Kurosawa kidnap drama that stars Lee’s longtime muse Denzel Washington), Wes Anderson‘s...

Pulse. (L-r) Jessica Rothe as Cass Himmelstein, Jack Bannon as Dr. Tom Cole, Jessy Yates as Harper, Jessie T. Usher as Sam Elijah, and Willa Fitzgerald as Danny in Episode 101 of Pulse. Cr. Anna Kooris/Netflix © 2024

One of the projects we’ve been crowing about coming up on Netflix in 2025 is the streamer’s first-ever medical procedural series, Pulse. The series has had the lid lifted on it with an April 2025 release date set. Here are all those first looks and a recap of everything we know so far.

First announced publicly in March 2024 (although in development for at least a year before that), the series marks a first for Netflix, at least when it comes to its English-language programming. Although it’s licensed plenty of medical dramas over the years, it’s never made one itself—at least not a procedural.

The series is created by veteran writer and producer Carlton Cuse,...

Ethan Hunt could be hitting the Croisette.

Though no decision has been made, “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” is weighing a Cannes Film Festival bow, which could see Tom Cruise injecting some serious star power into the event. Paramount, which declined to comment for this article, will be releasing the movie in theaters on May 21, which falls during the second week of the festival. The film is intended to be Cruise’s last outing as the Imf spy.

Paramount has a rich history with the festival, and so does Cruise, whose last trip to Cannes — for “Top Gun: Maverick” in 2022 — was a triumph. The movie went on to gross $1.45 billion at the worldwide box office and even garnered six Oscar nominations, winning a statuette for best sound.

Some other American filmmakers also strongly tipped to bring their latest pics to the glamorous festival include Spike Lee’s highly anticipated...

Exclusive: With one of Europe’s three flagship film festivals approaching half way stage, minds are already beginning to focus on the shape of the next two: Cannes and Venice. The former will be upon us before we know it.

As ever, there is no shortage of anticipated movies in contention. Indeed, one leading producer we spoke to remarked that 2025 is looking like “a particularly tough year, a much stronger year than 2024”. The surprise to us during our research for this piece is just how many big movies look like they will push to fall rather than launch on the Croisette. That’s not to say that Cannes won’t be box office. It remains the gold standard. The importance of both Cannes and Venice as launchpads is at an all-time high. Just look at how many Oscar nominees now start out at those two festivals — five of this year...

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In June last year, Netflix premiered its Spanish crime thriller Gangs of Galicia (also known in Spanish regions as Clanes), and after an over six-month wait, Netflix Es has confirmed that the show will be coming back for a second season.

If you missed it, the show was about a woman’s father who had been murdered, which subsequently reveals he had led a hidden double life. She seeks revenge and infiltrates a Galician drug cartel to become close to its leader.

The announcement of the renewal for Gangs of Galicia came as a relative footnote from the Next on Netflix event held in Madrid, where journalists and influencers tuned in for the US announcements in addition to showcasing what’s coming up in Spain over the next year such as Aitana: Metamorphosis, Carlos Alcaraz: My Way, A Ghost in Battle, Turn of the Tide season 2, and Olympo.

French New Wave fans, rejoice. One of Jean-Luc Godard’s most colorful, joyful, and unapologetically playful masterpieces of the 1960s has received a new 4K restoration. And New Yorkers will have the chance to catch it on the big screen this February.

Godard’s 1961 musical romantic comedy “A Woman Is a Woman” will screen at Film Forum in New York City from February 7-20, which will mark the U.S. premiere of the restoration.

Released in 1961, a year after the Cahiers du Cinema veteran secured himself filmmaking immortality with “Breathless,” “A Woman Is a Woman” was Godard’s tribute to Hollywood’s Technicolor musical comedies. Featuring the bright color scheme that he would return to for films like “Contempt” and “Pierrot Le Fou,” the film stars Godard’s then-wife and frequent collaborator Anna Karina as a dancer who, eager to have a child, entertains the romantic pursuits of two men...

Ringo Starr celebrates the release of his new country music album, “Look Up,” with his album producer and co-writer T Bone Burnett during a Town Hall on The Beatles Channel hosted by Rodney Crowell in SiriusXM’s Nashville studios.

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Listen to the exclusive special on The Beatles Channel (Ch. 18) in cars throughout the week (see the broadcast schedule here) and anytime on demand on the SiriusXM app. The full video of the Town Hall will also be available on demand on the SiriusXM app soon.

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From Liverpool to Nashville, Ringo Starr’s lifelong passion for country music comes full circle with a brand-new album, “Look Up.” Ringo shares stories about his new music, recalls his introduction to country, looks back on his early Beatles performances,...

Ringo always wanted to be a cowboy. He grew up in the toughest corner of Liverpool, dreaming of escaping to the Wild West, hoping to emigrate to Texas. He was the biggest country fan in the Beatles, the one who sang the Buck Owens classic “Act Naturally” as well as original twangers like “What Goes On” and “Don’t Pass Me By.” Now in his eighties, still a hell of a dancer, living on broccoli and blueberries, Sir Ringo Starr makes his first country album in 50 years. Look Up, with producer T Bone Burnett,...

2024 was maybe the best year ever for Blu-rays and 4K Uhd discs.

Thanks to boutique labels like Shout! Studios, Criterion, Arrow and Vinegar Syndrome, along with big studios like Universal and Disney, the catalog titles and new releases being introduced into the marketplace is genuine exciting. After years of bemoaning the death of physical media, its transformation from an everyday item to the kind of collector’s market that led to the resurgence of vinyl records, is nearly complete. Lionsgate recently started a boutique sublabel called Lionsgate Limited; A24 is now starting to sell titles that would have been exclusive to its online store on Amazon. Everything is a-okay.

And it’s with this newfound sense of optimism – about the market, about the titles that are being released and the committed teams bringing those titles to life – that we try and encapsulate this very special year. All of the releases...

There's some exciting news to share for fans of Netflix's hit Spanish medical drama series Breathless. According to a report from Spanish news source FormulaTV, Netflix has officially renewed Breathless for a second season, and the new episodes are already in the works!

Back in August 2024, Breathless (also know as Respira in its native Spanish) made its premiere on Netflix and spent over one month on the streamer's global top 10 charts. The show racked up 16.2 million views, which translates to over 103 million viewing hours, per What's on Netflix.

It's no surprise that Breathless won global audiences over, as the medical drama comes from Carlos Montero, the co-creator of Elite, and featured an excellent cast telling gripping stories. And based on the season finale's cliffhanger ending, a second season was definitely a need.

Breathless season 2 allegedly in production

FormulaTV reveals that Breathless season 2 will follow suit with the hit series'...

This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network, our array of film and TV chats cover the monster in cinema, the French New Wave and more. Here’s what we’ve been up to…

The CineHistorians Podcast

The first season of CineHistorians begins as Dr. Carl Sweeney and Raquel Stecher, in the first of a two-parter on the French New Wave, discuss Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless from 1960…

Writers on Film

Don’t miss John Bleasdale’s ongoing exploration of Terrence Malick to tie into his new book on the subject, talking 1978’s Days of Heaven, but he also spoke with author Anna Bogutskaya about why we remain obsessed by the cinematic monster…

A Dream Given Form

Baz Greenland and Lukę Winch, joined by guest Brandi Jackola, race toward dark places in Babylon-5 ever more, exploring the crucial mythological episode, 2×17 ‘In the Shadow of Z’ha’dum’…

Britcom Goes to the...

Ringo Starr will be releasing a new project on Jan. 10, 2025, and he’s got an all-star team of collaborators to make it the best it can possibly be. Here’s everything we know so far.

Ringo Starr Recruits Alison Krauss For New Album

The Beatles star and former drummer is well on his way to gifting fans with a new country album featuring Alison Krauss. Titled ‘Thankful,’ the album is said to be a second preview of ‘Look Up,’ a collaborative project with T Bone Burnett.

Like its “thankful” name, Starr hopes to inspire and spread positivity with the songs on the album. Apart from producing and co-writing nine of the 11 tracks on the album, the 84-year-old also sings on it alongside Burnett and Kraus.

He previewed the album with the debut track “Time On My Hands,” saying of the song, “I love this track. I wrote it with my producer and engineer,...

Starz has announced the movie and TV titles that will be available on the service in December. The Starz December 2024 schedule includes new episodes of Outlander Season 7 Part 2 all month long.

On the film front, Borderlands, Renfield, The Fabelmans, Midas, Polite Society, and several other notable titles will be joining the Starz app this month. This month, the app will feature a special collection, “Franchise Frenzy,” featuring titles from The Bourne series, The Chronicles of Riddick, Blair Witch, Divergent, and Ghostbusters, among others.

To get you through the holidays, Starz has a thrilling week of action-packed titles that are more naughty than nice, including The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Jurassic World Dominion: Extended Version, the Divergent trilogy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Cocaine Bear, and more.

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The land the Frasers call home is changing – and they must change with it.

Physical media collectors, take note. The Criterion Collection has announced six new Blu-ray releases coming in February 2025, including titles from some of today’s most beloved auteurs and one famously elusive late-career work from a French New Wave legend.

The slate is headlined by Jean-Luc Godard’s “King Lear,” an essential work from the “Breathless” director’s experimental period that has long been unavailable to own or stream. The film uses William Shakespeare’s tragedy as a jumping off point for a postmodern riff on art in a world decimated by the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown. While it shares little DNA with the actual play that shares its name, “King Lear” contains some of the most striking imagery of Godard’s filmography, including the director himself donning a Rastafarian wig made entirely of electrical cables. The nonlinear film is a pastiche of influences, references, and ideas that stands out to many...

Studiocanal have released a fantastic new 4K restoration of Orca, The Killer Whale, as part of the Cult Classics Collection. Terror is just below the surface in this ferocious action adventure of mythical proportions from legendary producer Dino De Laurentiis, starring screen legends Richard Harris (Oscar-nominated for This Sporting Life) and Charlotte Rampling (Oscar nominated for 45 Years). As well as a collectable 4K Uhd SteelBook, Blu-ray, DVD and Digital.

From Academy Award nominated director Michael Anderson (Around The World In Eighty Days) and screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni comes a gripping and terrifying tale of man versus beast. Described by Scream Magazine as ‘Jaws with heart’, Orca, The Killer Whale features a marvellous lead performance from Harris as a sea captain targeted by a vengeful killer whale, and also stars Will Sampson, famous for his performance as in Chief Bromden One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Bo Derek (“10”), and Robert Carradine...

It’s official: Sabrina Carpenter covers are the new Chappell Roan covers. Not long after Saturday Night Live (with help from Ariana Grande) turned “Espresso” into the ultra-viral “Bridesmaid Speech,” a.k.a. “Domingo,” British singer/songwriter Beabadoobee has jumped in the ring with a reimagined version of Carpenter’s “Taste.”

In the rendition, recorded live at BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, Beabadoobee recasts Carpenter’s acerbic pop-rock hit into something gentler, with a slightly countrified, acoustic-guitar-and-strings arrangement — almost how the Corrs would’ve done it. To underscore the point,...

Ringo Starr is returning to country music with his new album, Look Up, produced and co-written by T Bone Burnett. It will be released in full on January 10th, 2025, but the first preview, “Time on My Hands,” is out now. Stream it below.

Featuring 11 original songs, Look Up was recorded earlier this year in Nashville and Los Angeles. It was born out of Starr’s chance encounter with Burnett at a Los Angeles event in 2022, where Starr asked Burnett to write him a song for a project he was recording at the time. Burnett returned with nine songs steeped in country, creating the foundation for the album.

For his first country album since 1970’s Beaucoups of Blues, Starr also recruited Daniel Tashian (Kacey Musgraves) and his frequent collaborator Bruce Sugar as co-producers. Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle each make multiple appearances on Look Up, which also features Alison Krauss, Lucius,...

Ringo Starr was always the most country of the Beatles, covering Buck Owens’ “Act Naturally” and professing his love of Kitty Wells, his favorite singer. Fifty-five years since he released the twangy country solo album Beaucoups of Blues in 1970, Starr will return to the genre with Look Up, a new album arriving Jan. 10, 2025. It’s a collection of 11 songs — many of them cowritten by T Bone Burnett, who produced the album — including the breakup ballad “Time on My Hands,” out today.

With Paul Franklin’s pedal steel weeping behind him,...

Bette Gordon in her home office. Photograph by the author.The problem that I have dealt with in my whole career is that I essentially am not an American filmmaker. That I am anything but.The first person to place a camera in Bette Gordon’s hands was her father, Kenneth. A photographer himself, he met Gordon’s mother at a mutual acquaintance’s wedding, where he discreetly swapped place cards in order to sit next to her. They would later welcome Bette into the world he had been vigilantly chronicling, and by the time she was twelve, he began to teach her how to look. He advised her to hold her breath when snapping a photograph, how to frame images, where to find beauty. Since these teachings, Gordon has built a career upon images of eroticism and crime, arranging them into stories of a repressed woman working the box office at a porn theater,...

San Sebastian – “Bound in Heaven,” the directorial debut of experienced screenwriter Xin Huo, best known for “Kung Fu Hustle,” is the sole Chinese production in the Official Selection at San Sebastián, following its world premiere in Toronto’s Centrepiece section. The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Li Xiuwen, a Huading Award winner as part of the writing team for “Medal of the Republic.”

The story turns on Xia You (NiNi), a successful but emotionally drained woman trapped in a violently abusive relationship with her fiancé, played by Liao Fan, who won a Berlin Silver Bear for “Black Coal, Thin Ice.” In a harrowing early scene, Xia You defies her abuser, uttering the chilling and foreboding line, “Don’t smudge my makeup, the guests are still here,” a reflection of the fragile facade she is forced to uphold.

“The theme of domestic violence against women,...

The 37th Tokyo International Film Festival, taking place from October 28 to November 6, has announced a lineup opening with Shiraishi Kazuya’s 11 Rebels and closing with Christophe Honoré’s Marcello Mio, in-between featuring new Asian directors, an animation sidebar, restored Japanese classics, and Akira Kurosawa’s favorite films (among them Breathless and Hou Hsiao-hsien’s A Time to Live and a Time to Die). Complementing these will be masterclasses from Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Sammo Hung, as well as a Béla Tarr-led symposium. I’ll be traveling there from October 28 to November 2, with coverage to follow.

The main competition’s jury is spearheaded by Tony Leung and features Johnnie To, Chiara Mastroianni, Ildikó Enyedi, and Ai Hashimoto, while the 15-film lineup comprises an eclectic mix: nine world premieres of predominantly Asian titles, five Asian premieres, one international debut, and only a handful of European features among them.

See the competition lineup below...

Tokyo International Film Festival has announced that Japanese filmmaker Sho Miyake and Taiwanese filmmaker Fu Tien-yu will be the joint recipients of the 2024 Kurosawa Akira Award.

The award honors the legacy and ongoing influence of the selected directors. Last year, China’s Gu Xiaogang and Indonesia’s Mouly Surya received the award. The selection committee for this year’s award included Yoji Yamada, Yoko Narahashi, Saburo Kawamoto and TIFF programming director Shozo Ichiyama.

Sho’s credits include Playback (2012), which was selected for Locarno competition and won the Rising Director Grand Prix award at the Takasaki Film Festival; And Your Bird Can Sing (2018); Small, Slow But Steady (2022) and All The Long Nights (2024), with the latter two films screening at Berlin.

Fu is a novelist turned filmmaker who made her directorial debut with Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, followed by My Egg Boy in 2016. In 2023, she directed her third feature film, Day Off,...

Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo’s Suma Content and Spanish platform Atresplayer have teamed on “Mariliendre,” a new fictional musical comedy series from creator Javier Ferreiro.

“Mariliendre” was unveiled at FesTVal Vitoria earlier this month, and Variety has now been given exclusive access to the first international teaser for the show.

Set in Chueca, one of the most vibrant and gay neighborhoods in the Spanish capital and likely the world, “Mariliendre” – a common Spanish nickname for the woman best friend of a gay man – follows Meri Román, a former queen of Madrid’s gay nightlife. Now, at 35 years old, those days of recognition are in the review mirror for Meri, a dethroned diva who can’t let go of the past and is bored by her mundane present.

After the death of her father, Meri reconnects with her old group of gay friends, bringing into sharper focus memories of her...

The Perfect Couple. (L to R) Nicole Kidman as Greer Winbury, Liev Schreiber as Tag Winbury in episode 101 of The Perfect Couple. Cr. Seacia Pavao/Netflix © 2024 Netflix viewers had plenty to keep them entertained last week with a mix of weddings, thrillers, and even a dash of Greek mythology dominating the streaming platform’s Top 10 lists. The limited series The Perfect Couple secured the top spot on the English TV List, captivating 20.3 million viewers with its twisty whodunnit plot and star-studded cast led by Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber. The show’s catchy opening credits featuring a flash mob to Meghan Trainor’s Criminals quickly became a fan favorite, even catching the attention of Trainor herself. On the film front, the action-packed thriller Rebel Ridge, hailed as the “action movie of the year,” claimed the top spot with an impressive 31.2 million views. The film stars Aaron Pierre as an ex-Marine...

No one likes going to the doctor, but for some reason, a lot of us can't seem to get enough of watching fake doctors on TV. Medical drama series have been popular on the small screen for what feels like forever, and whether these procedurals are following the high-pressured jobs of doctors, nurses, paramedics, or any essential worker, there's an audience ready and waiting to tune in.

In August 2024, Netflix released its Spanish medical drama series Breathless (also known as Respira) from the creators of the now-ended teen thriller Elite. The series centers on a public hospital in Valencia that experiences changes when a public figure seeks treatment. Breathless stars Blanca Suárez, Manu Rios, Najwa Nimri, Alfonso Bassave, and more talented actors in the ensemble cast.

Like most medical drama series, Breathless doesn't solely focus on the heart-pounding and sometimes downright bone-chilling life-or-death situations that happen in a hospital. There's also romance,...

The 1958 version of “Bonjour Tristesse” is everything Hollywood seems to be wary of these days: a notoriously mean, allegedly misogynistic filmmaker’s interpretation of a book written by and about a French teenage girl. “He used me like a Kleenex and then threw me away,” Jean Seberg said of director Otto Preminger. Well, get out your hankies for a more sensitive (and plenty chic) take, one that asks: What might an adaptation of “Bonjour Tristesse” look like if it were a woman interpreting Françoise Sagan’s words? Better yet, how might it feel?

Montreal-born writer-director Durga Chew-Bose offers an impressionistic retelling, emphasizing tactile details: the way the Côte d’Azur sun hits the skin, the relief of sitting before an open icebox on a hot summer night, the smell of Dad’s aftershave. While promising, Chew-Bose’s attractive but ultimately hollow debut offers audiences a vicarious vacation to the south of France,...

Breathless is a brand-new Netflix series that covers the life of the healthcare professionals working for a Valencia-based government hospital in Spain. There is a lot to take away from the stories as the doctors’ lives get intertwined with their work. Breathless is also about accepting one another for our flaws and moving ahead in life, while the makers of the show treat doctors as humans who make mistakes as well.

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Did Dr. Moa go on strike right from the operation table?

Breathless began with Dr. Moa of Joaquim Sorola Hospital in the operating room performing a major surgery with Dr. Pilar on a certain patient named Patricia. It turns out the surgery was crucial for Patricia’s survival. At the same time, other doctors, residents, and nurses announced an indefinite strike for better work life balance for the doctors. As the clock struck twelve, Dr. Moa insisted on abandoning the operation theater,...

Breathless is a Spanish medical drama series created by Carlos Montero. The Netflix series is set in the Joaquín Sorolla public hospital in Valencia, Spain and it follows a group of doctors as they juggle their professional responsibilities, hectic work schedule, and secret affairs all while trying to give their patients the best medical care possible. So, if you loved the medical drama, romantic elements, and tense stories in Breathless here are some similar shows you should check out next.

The Night Shift (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – NBC

The Night Shift is a medical drama series created by Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah. The NBC series revolves around a group of doctors associated with the US Army as they work the night shift in the ER at the San Antonio Medical Center. They face several issues in their personal and professional lives while trying to give their patients the best care possible.

Netflix has responded to fan calls for a Season 2 release of Breathless.

Breathless (or Respira) is a Spanish-language medical drama that arrived on the platform on Friday, August 30, immediately finding an audience both in Spain and abroad. 

The Netflix original debuted with a meager eight episodes for fans to enjoy, making some wonder if the medical practitioners of Joaquín Sorolla Public Hospital will ever be heard from again.

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We’re introduced to a busy day at the Joaquín Sorolla Public Hospital in Valencia, Spain. The resident doctors seem constantly overwhelmed as one crisis after another arrives through the ER doors. Biel is rushing to get to a late-night surgery on time after oversleeping. Rodrigo finds himself in over his head on a difficult diagnosis until his sister Jessica swoops in to help. Quique brings in an Od patient, though he appears intoxicated himself.

These residents are still learning the ropes under the guidance of the attending physicians. Biel assists seasoned surgeon Pilar as she works urgently to remove a tumor. Nestor, a renowned oncologist, adds pressure by threatening to call a hospital-wide strike at any moment. The residents experience the bureaucratic tensions between overworked staff and tightened budgets firsthand.

A car crash brings in an unexpected patient—Patricia Segura, the outspoken President of Valencia. Her disdain for public...

Breathless is a brand-new show on Netflix that is about the lives of doctors and the newly assigned residents, all working in a government-run hospital. Set in Valencia, Spain, this Spanish show has an interesting premise and several characters that deal with many issues concerning their professional and personal lives. Here is a list of the characters that appear in the first season of Breathless.

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Dr. Moa

Borja Luna as Dr. Moa, one of the best doctors in the government hospital, is fed up with the situation at his workplace. The hospital is understaffed, and the existing medicos must work overtime without any hike in the salary or rest. Amidst all the concerns of the hospital, he is the doctor everyone looks up to, including many residents who have joined the establishment as newbies. Dr. Moa is an oncologist and is the first person who hints at Patricia possibly having breast cancer.

Netflix's latest foray into creating its own original medical drama arrived on Aug. 30 with the premiere of the exciting Spanish series Breathless, otherwise known as Respira. In the series from the creators of Elite, matters of public health come under fire when a high-profile patient receives treatment from a public hospital in Valenica.

While that's the throughline of the series, the doctors in Breathless also take a page from Grey's Anatomy and find some time for romance. The series balances both the steamy personal lives of its doctors with the fast-paced environment of the hospital emergency room, the life and death needs of their patients, and the political issues that quickly come into play.

If you're considering adding Breathless to your watch list and binge-watching all eight episodes, you probably want to know a little bit more information about what you're getting yourself into. As a medical drama, some blood is expected.

Spanish-language medical soap Breathless delivers pretty well on the melodramatic super-emotional front. It’s got a great cast that makes you feel like you’re in the room with them struggling to make sense of how to deal with the life-and-death situation at hand. But when it comes to shows like this, you can’t just give us 8 episodes and be done with it. Rather than a limited-edition trendy product, it’s more a luxurious silk that’ll last you a lifetime; quite literally. I mean, look at Grey’s Anatomy, still stronger than ever as an old woman. She’s a giver. But with that said, the end of Breathless leaves many plot lines unfinished. Two major factors include Jesica’s stabbing and Patricia’s massive decision, and then there’s things like Oscar’s overdose and the fate of the hospital as a whole. While nothing has been confirmed just yet,...

It’s been years since I last watched Grey’s Anatomy, even though it’s still making the rounds, like a doctor at retirement age forced to keep working well beyond their years. I think each country has its own medical drama equivalent. In India, we had Dil Mil Gaye back in the day, and there are a dozen Korean medical dramas, all pretty good and worth your time. And now, dare I say, we’ve found a Spanish one that’s just as dramatic, bloody, and maybe much more McSteamy than you’d expect. Breathless is your classic medical drama where a bunch of doctors at a hospital in the public health care system struggle to deal with emergency and terminal illnesses. But that’s not it, because after some point, that may become a bit too bleak for our interest. So, we have a series of love affairs, some internal back and forth,...

If you’re specifically looking for a Spanish-language version of Grey’s Anatomy, then look no further—Breathless is exactly what you need. This medical drama, set in the bustling Joaquin Sorolla Hospital in Valencia, brings all the intensity and emotion you’d expect from a show about doctors. Like its American counterpart, Breathless centers on the lives of the doctors, residents, and nurses who navigate the daily pressures of saving lives. But it’s not just about medicine—there’s plenty of romance, family drama, and personal conflicts brewing among the hospital staff. From steamy love affairs to the heartbreaking struggle of dealing with death, the relationships within the hospital are as complex and engaging as the medical cases they handle. I suppose the protagonist of the show, in many ways, is handsome Biel, and his clandestine love affair with Jesica takes center stage near the end of Breathless season 1. Additionally,...

It's finally the last weekend of August, which means we're getting so close to fall. While the weather might not be totally cooperating just yet, Netflix has already announced its fall movie lineup and continued to announce which series will be back for new seasons throughout the rest of the year. But before we can get into all the good new releases to come very soon, we have to see off August.

This weekend brings not only the last day of August but the first day of September, and a new month always means a long list of new movies on Netflix! The streamer dropped two brand-new series that will have everyone talking, the Greek mythology dark comedy Kaos and the Spanish medical drama Breathless. The new anime series Terminator Zero also arrive this week along with Adam Sandler's latest comedy special, titled Adam Sandler: Love You.

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The 2024 Spanish medical drama series on Netflix, Breathless, or Respira, is very much like other sensational drama shows produced by the platform, with the added backdrop of blue scrubs and bloody scalpels. The plot is centered around a public hospital in Valencia, named the Joaquin Sorolla Hospital, where overstressed surgeons and their resident doctors struggle to treat the queue of patients who rush to the place for treatment. However, such is the heightened drama in the characters’ personal lives, and also in the political world, that matters of medicine become secondary, and the various subplots are all that we follow. Overall, Breathless is mediocre at best and disappointing at times, and it is best watched without any expectations of a serious medical drama.

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Breathless begins with an intense scene inside the operation theater at the Joaquin Sorolla hospital, where a serious surgery...

There is no shortage of medical dramas on television, as well as in the Ott space. There is Grey’s Anatomy, New Amsterdam, The Good Doctor, and Sky Med. There are just some examples of American and Canadian medical dramas that cover stories of doctors, patients, nurses, and other staff working at hospitals. Netflix Spain released Breathless, a medical drama just like the shows mentioned above which is the story of several doctors and residents working for a government hospital. The eight-episode show was released on 26th August 2024 and is created by Carlos Montero.

Set in the town of Valencia in Spain, Dr. Moa, Dr. Pilar, and Dr. Jessica are the doctors working for the government hospital named the Joaquim Solor Hospital. They are being assisted by resident doctors for training purposes. The resident doctors: Dr. Biel, Dr. May, Dr. Rocio, and Dr. Enrique, mostly handles the emergency cases. They also...

If you thought 2023 was a good year for Netflix shows, 2024 just might have last year beat. The year has already provided new hits like Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Gentlemen, Baby Reindeer, and Emily in Paris, but there are plenty more highly anticipated shows on the horizon. New seasons of Outer Banks, Squid Game, The Diplomat, and more are still to come in 2024.

Although the Hollywood strikes left multiple Netflix shows delayed until 2025, the streamer has confirmed plenty more shows premiering or returning with new shows in 2024. Now that we're heading into the last few months of the year, we're starting to see some big hits coming back to our watch lists and splashy new shows making their debuts.

While fans will surely be anxiously awaiting Ginny & Georgia season 3, Wednesday season 2, The Watcher season 2, You season 5, and more, there's still so much to look forward to in 2024. For now,...

It's the last full week of August, a month that has brought so many great new Netflix shows and movies. Throughout the past month, the streaming service has released the latest seasons of fan favorite shows like The Umbrella Academy, Unstable, and Emily in Paris, while also debuting hit movies and docuseries such as The Union and American Murder: Laci Peterson.

Even though this week's a bit on the lighter side when it comes to Netflix new releases (there are only 10 new titles hitting the streamer this week), there are still plenty of can't-miss movies and shows primed to fill up our watch lists. Following last week's explosion of AMC series, this week's the perfect week to catch up on what you've missed and/or try out some new Netflix originals.

Going into the last week of August, a number of carryover titles remain in the top 10, from a number...

August is coming to an end and to round out the month, Netflix is adding a few new movies and shows to their lineup. Don't let the small number fool you; some of the new additions are huge shows that many people are looking forward to, including a new animated series, a new dark comedy, and a new thriller.

First up is Kaos! The new series hits Netflix on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. The dark comedy is a retelling of Greek mythology and stars Jeff Goldblum as Zeus, Janet McTeer as Hera, David Thewlis as Hades, and Killian Scott as Orpheus. It also features Aurora Perrineau, Billie Piper, Debi Mazar, and Cliff Curtis. The show follows three humans who discover they have a connection to one another as well as a prophecy that leads them to deal with the arrogant gods.

Take a look at the trailer here:

Next up is The Deliverance!

Alain Delon, the French actor most famous for his roles in the films of New Wave director Jean-Pierre Melville, especially “Le Samourai,” has died. He was 88.

“He passed away peacefully in his home in Douchy, surrounded by his three children and his family,” according to a statement released to the Afp news agency by his family.

In addition to “Le Samourai,” Delon also appeared in Melville’s brilliant heist film “Le Cercle rouge” and “Un Flic.”

Some of his other significant films were Rene Clement’s “Purple Noon”; Visconti’s “Rocco and His Brothers” and “The Leopard”; Antonioni’s “L’Eclisse”; Jose Giovanni’s “Two Men in Town”; and Joseph Losey’s “Mr. Klein.”

Although he triggered some controversies during the later part of his life due to his public comments on adoption of children by same-sex parents and affinity with far-right politicians, many prominent figures in France and abroad paid...

Yoshiyuki Tomino, the acclaimed writer-director of Mobile Suit Gundam and the creator of the anime franchise as a whole, has revealed the movie actresses he's in love with, adding about one French actress, "She turns me on so much!"

In a new interview with Full Frontal, Tomino discussed Gundam, his illustrious career, favorite films and the "scary" process of making the acclaimed science-fiction film Ideon, where, "I went so far in considering humans passions and psychology that I thought Id want to kill myself." This was before he was asked about French films, leading him to reveal his deep love for actress Jeanne Moreau. "I haven't seen a lot of Godard [French director]," he says, "I just absolutely love his first film, Breathless. I recognize Godards special talent, so it would be hard to say I wasnt influenced [by French film] But the fact is that I dont really like the overall direction of the Nouvelle Vague.

Un hospital al borde del colapso. © Netflix

Netflix ha publicado el tráiler de Respira, el primer drama hospitalario de Netflix en España, creado por Carlos Montero.

El Joaquín Sorolla es mucho más que un hospital público de Valencia donde cada día se salvan vidas. Médicos y residentes se dejan la piel en el frenético ritmo de las urgencias, donde las tensiones, las emociones y hasta el deseo aceleran el corazón de un personal que vive cada vez más al límite. La llegada de una distinguida paciente pone de manifiesto la complicada situación de la sanidad pública, encendiendo la mecha de lo que se convertirá en una huelga drástica y sin precedentes.

Esta nueva serie de ficción de ocho episodios está protagonizada por Najwa Nimri, Aitana Sánchez Gijón, Blanca Suárez, Manu Ríos, Borja Luna y Alfonso Bassave. Completan el reparto Ana Rayo, Macarena de Rueda, Blanca Martínez, Abril Zamora, Xoán Fórneas,...