What to stream: Anatomy of a Fall, Paul Simon doc, Road House
Here’s a collection of notable movies and series available to stream this week.
Movies
Fresh off its Oscar success, Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall is available to stream on Prime Video. The French courtroom drama stars Sandra Hüller as a wife accused of murdering her husband (Samuel Theis) by pushing him out a high window in the French Alps chalet. The film effectively puts their marriage on trial while offering Hüller an engrossing platform for all her cunning as a performer. Anatomy of a Fall won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and best original screenplay at the Academy Awards. In her review, AP film writer Lindsey Bahr called it “a smartly constructed and wholly engaging whodunit, courtroom thriller, marriage drama and, at some points, satire.”
• Paul Simon gets an expansive two-part documentary with In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, from filmmaker Alex Gibney. After the first half premiered March 17 on Crave, part two landed on Sunday. In Restless Dreams, which premiered last fall at the Toronto International Film Festival, surveys the varied chapters of Simon’s career, including his many years as a duo with Art Garfunkel, the recording of his 1986 album Graceland and the still unfolding and music-making life of the 82-year-old songwriter.
• Doug Liman gives the 1989 cult classic Road House a pulpy modern spin with Jake Gyllenhaal as a former UFC fighter hired as security for a seedy Florida Keys bar. Jessica Williams plays the owner of a road house under siege from a crime syndicate that eventually brings in even more muscle, and a dose of mania, in a fearsome fixer played by mixed-martialarts fighter Conor McGregor. Though Liman, the director of Edge of Tomorrow and Swingers, has pleaded for the film to be theatrically released, Road House is now on Prime Video.