What are we watching this weekend? Emma Stone immense, Jodie Foster glacial, Léa Drucker without taboos…

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

The film in theaters: Poor Creatures by Yorgos Lanthimos

Five years later The Favorite, Emma Stone and Yórgos Lánthimos team up again in this rereading of Frankenstein, female emancipation version. An existential and deranged fairy tale, where Stone delivers an extraordinary performance as Bella, “saved” by a mad scientist (Willem Dafoe) who transplanted a baby’s brain. Yes, it’s as crazy (and funny) as it sounds.

WHAT’S NEW AT THE CINEMA THIS WEEK

Series : True Detective season 4

Probably the best season of the crime anthology since the first! Creator Nic Pizzolatto was sidelined, and Mexican filmmaker Issa López (Tigers Are Not Afraid) was able to breathe new life into the “True Det” saga, with this sordid frosty investigation, in the polar night of Alaska, a fantastic setting where a new female duo has fun: Jodie Foster and Kali Reis make perfect detectives who are scrambling to solve this icy mystery.

Watch True Detective season 4 on Prime Video with Warner Pass

The film on VOD: Last summer by Catherine Breillat

For her return after ten years of absence, Catherine Breillat depicts a forbidden love between a lawyer in her forties and the minor son of her partner. As usual, the director of Romance disturbs and captivates by its intact capacity to explore the terrain of the feminine intimate without taboo, against the tide of the times, through one of the most Machiavellian portraits of women seen in a long time. Léa Durcker is masterful, as is the beginner Samuel Kircher. They should both find themselves in the list of César nominees on Wednesday.

Watch Last Summer on VOD on Première Max

The film in streaming: Investigation into a scandal state of Thierry de Peretti

With Thierry de Peretti, it’s always about hacking the models: if A Violent Life was a kind ofFreed radicalized and theoretical in Corsica, Investigation into a state scandal is a Miami Vice immobile and hypnotic, bald and anti-spectacular, carried by an immense Roschdy Zem who thwarts all the clichés of the drug movie. The intro scene where he wanders around an empty windswept villa waiting for a drug delivery immediately shows the level.

Watch Investigation into a state scandal for free streaming on Arte.TV (until February 15)

The film on TV: The Intranquilles by Joachim Lafosse

The Intranquilles, it’s not just the (insane) performance of Damien Bonnard as a bipolar artist devoured by his own energy, it’s also that of Leïla Bekhti, absolutely overwhelming in the role of his mute and worried companion. Joachim Lafosse does not take sides, either for one or the other. He never leaves them, and The Intranquilles becomes a portrait of a couple moving to tears.

Watch Les Intranquilles this Friday January 19 at 9:08 p.m. on France 5

The nugget: La Minima Island by Alberto Rodriguez

Shortly after Franco’s death, a duo of cops (Javier Gutiérrez and Raúl Arévalo) who are completely opposed to each other are on the trail of a serial killer who targets young girls in a swampy region of Andalusia. During their investigation, they will come up against the complex local reality, while the dark past of one of the police officers resurfaces. Often compared to True Detective (the similarities with season 1 of Nic Pizzolato’s series are indeed uncanny), this great thriller is simply unmissable for fans of the genre.

Watch La Isla Minima for free streaming on France.TV until March 31

The UFO: Canine by Yorgos Lanthimos

Do you find Lanthimos’ cinema twisted? Wait until you see the film that revealed him (his second solo feature), awarded at Cannes in 2009 (Un Certain Regard Prize). This closed session plunges us into a strange family isolated in the countryside. The three children, although adults, have never seen the outside of their villa, where they live under the alienation of their parents. They will only be allowed to go out if they lose a canine tooth… Punctuated with very uncomfortable scenes, this black and surreal comedy, adored by David Lynch, would almost make you seem Poor creaturesthe last Lanthimos, for a wise film.

Watch Canine for free on MK2 Curiosity until January 25

The farewell : The Caine Mutiny Affair by William Friedkin

William Friedkin’s posthumous (TV) film arrived this week on Paramount +. It is a variation on Hurricane on the Caine, a big classic of Humphrey Bogart’s film. A U.S. Navy minesweeper’s first officer is court-martialed for disavowing his paranoid, dictatorial superior (Kiefer Sutherland, as Bogey) during a massive storm in which he threatened crew safety. Did the mutineer do the right thing by disobeying? Well: it would be a lie to say that this judicial closed session has the same furious energy as the late Friedkins, type Bug Or Killer Joe (let’s not even talk about French Connection Or The Exorcist). But the tight staging manages to make what could only have been filmed theater very dynamic. And the moral of the story is as ambiguous as can be. Mandatory viewing, therefore, for complete Friedkinians.

Watch The Case of the Caine Mutiny on Paramount+

The video game : Prince of Persia – The Lost Crown

After years of silence, the legendary saga Prince of Persia returns in a 2.5D title that fits like a glove. The combat system, both very accessible and scalable (coupled with very good gameplay ideas), offers a gaming pleasure not possible. Not a revolution, far from it, but everything is finished with a sense of detail that commands respect.

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series and Switch.