What are we watching this weekend? A film about the peasant world, Klapisch’s last dance, Shoah in replay…

Cinema, streaming, VOD, TV… Find advice from the editorial staff every Friday.

The Bertrand Farm by Gilles Perret – in theaters

With great virtuosity, Gilles Perret retraces the life of a family of farmers from a small village in Haute-Savoie over half a century, integrating images from a 1972 television report and his first feature, Three brothers for a lifetime. And through this story of transmission, it tells fifty years of French agriculture, in the difficulties encountered on a daily basis by those who practice it, the solutions they found to live better but also and above all the passion that drives them. A public utility documentary in the current period.

What’s new at the cinema this week

The film on VOD: The Creator by Gareth Edwards

Okay, when it came out, we weren’t totally convinced by the new science fiction trip from the director of Godzilla from 2014 and Rogue One. Beautiful images but too much already seen. We are ready to redo the match on VOD: everything we want to The Creatorit’s precisely that it improves over time and becomes a pretty little nugget which will appear in the tops of the “best SF films that you haven’t seen”, in 2065 and some.

Watch The Creator on VOD on Première Max

In streaming: the Quentin Dupieux cycle

Dive into the heart of the French director’s absurd cinema, while you wait Daaaaaali!, next week at the cinema. Of Rubber has At office !, five films released from 2010 to 2018 are online. We particularly recommend the latter, the story of an improbable police custody led by a cast in great form, from Poelvoorde to Mr. Fraize via Anaïs – “that’s why” – Demoustier.

Watch the Dupieux cycle on France.TV

The movie on TV: In body by Cédric Klapisch

After various documentaries and recordings, Cédric Klapisch uses fiction to express his love of dance. Here he features a young classical dancer who is told her career is over after a serious injury and creates a film of reconstruction by weaving bridges between two worlds – the classical and the contemporary – that many consider irreconcilable. Despite the obstacles encountered by his heroine, he films the dance from the angle of passion and not of priesthood or competition and sprinkles this moving story with tasty moments of comedy, notably carried by a very fit Pio Marmaï, all by revealing the acting talent of dancer Marion Barbeau.

Watch En Corps Sunday at 9:10 p.m. on France 2

Series : Of Grace

Between raw thriller and Greek tragedy, Arte’s new dark series takes us into the bowels of the port of Le Havre, a world of loud-mouthed dockers and trade unionists. It smells of sweat, blood and oil, with a cast in total harmony with this larger-than-life setting: Olivier Gourmet makes an impressive patriarch, while his offspring Panayotis Pascot and Pierre Lottin give body and soul.

Watch De Grace on Arte.TV

The documentary : Holocaust by Claude Lanzmann

It took Claude Lanzmann almost a decade to create this long documentary (nearly 10 hours) on the extermination of Europe’s Jews by the Nazis. Refusing the archive, the filmmaker “manufactures” his images himself. By the force of testimonies (survivors and executioners) but also camera movements of incredible purity, Shoah documents the horror, reports it, and, miraculously, brings forth the memory of the dead from the ashes of an eternally present fragile. Essential.

Watch Shoah streaming on France.TV

🎥 For the duty to remember and inform.

On the occasion of the Day of Remembrance of Genocides and the Prevention of Crimes Against Humanity, (re)discover “Shoah”, the monument film by Claude Lanzmann.

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The classic : Ceremony by Claude Chabrol

This film, inspired by a terrible news story, is one of the peaks of the filmmaker’s career. Kind of Parasite before its time, this psychological thriller tells the story of an illiterate maid who enters a bourgeois family. After befriending the local postwoman (Isabelle Huppert), she will turn against her bosses… Chabrol replays the class struggle here, with his scathing humor, and gives us a lesson in directing carried by two incredible actresses. Unmissable.

Watch The Ceremony Friday at 9:08 p.m. on France 5