What are we watching this weekend? A French delight, the new Fincher, a crazy series with Emma Stone…

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

The film in theaters: The Passion of Dodin Bouffant by Tran Han Hung

An ode to French gastronomy, a tasty romance between Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel, a treatise on direction inspired by Ozu and Mizoguchi, Tran Han Hung’s new film is a pure delight. 2h14 mesmerizing which amaze the eyes and whet the taste buds, with its recipes concocted by the great chef Pierre Gagnaire (don’t go there on an empty stomach!). Dodin Bouffant was chosen to defend French chances at the Oscar for best foreign film, rather thanAnatomy of a falland it’s anything but a scandal.

What’s new at the cinema this week

The film in streaming: The Killer by David Fincher

It’s one of the biggest cinema events of the year on Netflix: the new film by David Fincher which, under the guise of a story of mid-Samurai mid-John Wick (a hitman follows the trail of those who want his skin), encourages us to think about our existences refrigerated and conditioned by digital capitalism. A great little film, both delectable and twisted, minimalist and haunting.

Watch The Killer on Netflix

Series : The Curse

Withney (Emma Stone) and Asher (Nathan Fielder) are the stars of a reality TV show that follows them in their daily lives as developers of eco-responsible homes. A satire of greenwashing and fast-paced gentrification that collides with a story of a presumed curse that is completely bizarre… Indefinable, hilarious, unpredictable, dizzying: you won’t see two series like each other. The Curse in your life.

Watch The Curse on Paramount+ starting Saturday, November 11

The film on VOD: Olfa’s Daughters by Kaouther Ben Hania

This was the great omission of the Cannes prize list. Kaouther Ben Hania recounts the disappearance – its causes and its consequences – of the two eldest daughters of a Tunisian mother in a film breaking the boundaries between documentary and fiction, where the behind the scenes of the filming say as much as the words and the looks in front of the camera. Beautiful, powerful and overwhelming. A work nourished by the confidences of Olfa and her two youngest daughters but within which two actresses embody the missing sisters and a third, Olfa during certain reconstructions that are too emotionally heavy. Beautiful, powerful and overwhelming

Watch Les Filles d’Olfa on VOD on Première Max

The short movie : Someone extraordinary by Monia Chokri

Ten years ago, Monia Chokri made her debut behind the camera with this short edited by Xavier Dolan. All her cinema was already in this caustic comedy where a lost thirty-something (Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, whom she found for Simple like Sylvaincurrently in theaters) destroys his gang of “friends” during a bachelorette party, until a terribly moving climax with Anne Dorval.

Watch Someone Extraordinary for free on mk2 Curiosity

The classic : Monty Python: The meaning of life

Monty Python’s swan song. A monster film that pushed all the obsessions of the funniest English people in the world into the red. Worth rewatching if only to note that the Mr. Creosote scene continues to, um… splash contemporary cinema, until Without filter by Ruben Ostlund. As Terry Gilliam says: “ The film is uneven, but what is good in it is among the best we have done. »

Watch Monty Python for free on France.tv

The book : Shuna’s Journey by Hayao Miyazaki

The exit of Boy and the heron is not the only Miyazakian event this fall. The other is the publication of Shuna’s Journey in French, forty years after its publication in Japan. A short (and visually sublime, of course) odyssey between SF and fantasy, between past and future, between comics and storyboards, between Nausicaä And Princess Mononoke, where Miyazaki makes an unfinished film the crossroads of his visual and narrative obsessions. No worries, it’s definitely an event.

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