What are we watching this weekend? Léa Seydoux in full dizziness, the last round of Larry David, a great mutant film…

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The film in theaters: The beast by Bertrand Bonello

A great romantic film traveling through three eras (the Paris of 1910, the Los Angeles of 2014 and 2044) to tell the story of a woman trapped in her fear of love. With this very free adaptation of The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James, Bonello offers a dizzying sensory journey, like a film- sum of all these previous works, from The Apollonides has Coma, where we take great pleasure in abandoning ourselves and getting lost. And in front of her camera, Léa Seydoux, in almost every shot, and exceptional from the first to the last, signs the most impressive composition of her career.

What’s new at the cinema this week

Series : Larry and his belly button (Curb your enthusiasm)

Larry, it’s over. After 24 years (!) of existence (the first episode was broadcast on HBO in October 2000), Curb your enthusiasm, a masterpiece of true-false misanthropic autofiction, launches its latest burst of episodes. This isn’t the first time Larry David has said this is the last season of his show, ” Yes, but it’s the first time I’ve said that even though I’m 76 years old », Specifies the person concerned. And too bad if the first episode of this twelfth season is a little laborious (Larry is invited as a guest star to the party of a South African millionaire played by Sharlto Copley and his contract specifies that he will have to show himself ” cordial “): we must be in the front row to salute this monument of TV comedy.

Watch Larry and His Navel on Prime Video via Warner Pass

The movie on TV: In his lifetime by Emmanuelle Bercot

By telling the story of a forty-year-old suffering from a serious form of cancer, his slow decline towards a rapid death that he knows is certain, the suffering of his mother and the devotion of the doctor and nurse at his bedside, Emmanuelle Bercot succeeds in a melodrama that is all the more moving because it is never tearful. Thanks to his feverish staging and an impressively masterful Benoît Magimel (and rightly Caesarized) whose inscrutable face follows us long after the end of the film.

Watch In his life Sunday at 9:10 p.m. on France 2

The film on DVD/VOD: The Animal Kingdom by Thomas Cailley

During an exceptional year for French genre cinema (Vincent must die, Vermin…), The Animal Kingdom was the standard bearer of this joyful renewal. After having won over critics and the public (more than 1 million admissions!), Thomas Cailley’s second feature arrives on Blu-Ray, DVD and VOD, just before the Césars, of which he is one of the big favorites (12 nominations). The opportunity to (re)see this great, stunning film which goes from teen movie to fantastical fable while still managing to bring a tear to our eyes over Pierre Bachelet. And the emergence of a raw talent, Paul Kircher, who bursts onto the screen in this role of a (literally) changing teenager.

Watch The Animal Kingdom on Première Max

The classic : Gun Hell

Warning the eyes ! Gun Hella film by Tsui Hark, has just resurfaced in theaters and still causes the same retinal shock as when it was released in Hong Kong in 1980. This film, which has sometimes been described as a Clockwork Orange HK, recounts in a hallucinatory maelstrom the spread of violence and moral chaos through the intersecting paths of a young anarchist with uncontrollable death urges (fabulous Lin Chen-chi), her cop brother, and Western arms traffickers and three sons from a good family suddenly propelled into the bath of ultraviolence. It was Tsui Hark’s third feature, the final part of what Christophe Gans called “the trilogy of chaos”, pure filmic nitroglycerin. A madness that leaves its spectator haggard and crushed.

The documentary : Martin Scorsese – the Italian-American

Arte chooses the angle of the quest for identity to retrace the exceptional career of Martin Scorsese in Hollywood. A choice allowing us to approach his particular way of filming Italian, Irish and Jewish immigrants in New York, but also his relationship with God, women, the Mafia and violence. Despite a few holes (to respect the 52′ format), this portrait stands out thanks to the memorable archive images from his early career.

Watch Martin Scorsese – the Italian-American on Arte.TV