What are we watching this weekend? Mike Flanagan's new series, a short with Raphaël Quenard, an Asian nugget...

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

The film in theaters: The Poet’s Bride by Yolande Moreau

For her return behind the camera after 10 years of absence, Yolande Moreau signs a poetic, warm and mischievous hymn to the bumps of life through the adventures of a group of nickel-plated feet improvising as art forgers to get out water head. A social tale like an enchanted parenthesis where a certain William Sheller makes his notable and remarkable acting debut as a priest… an ABBA fan!

What’s new at the cinema this week

The film in streaming: Limbo by Ivan Sen

Physically transformed (clean-shaven head, visible tattoos, rimmed glasses), Simon Baker, the hero of Mentalist, reinvents himself as an actor, as a heroin addict detective investigating the murder of a young Aboriginal woman in the Australian outback, unsolved for 20 years. Its restrained composition marries the voluntary and quite captivating languor of the rhythm of the story as well as the beauty of the black and white photography created by the director (and cinematographer) Ivan Sen.

Watch Limbo on Filmo TV

Series : The Fall of the House of Usher

Endless purveyor of gothic tales (The Haunting of Hill House And Bly Manor) and little Stephen King-style masterpieces (Midnight Sermons), Mike Flanagan returns with an evocation of Edgar Allan Poe with the false air of Succession. A game of massacre as much as a Greek tragedy, which does not skimp on hemoglobin. Go for it, you won’t regret it.

The Fall of the House of Usher, on Netflix since October 12, 2023. Eight episodes.

The short film: The Bad Boys

Before the explosion with Yannick, Junkyard Dogs And Sentinel, Raphaël Quenard starred in 2020 in the very beautiful short film by Elie Girard. Forty minutes about two thirty-somethings abandoned by their friend, who is about to become a father. Kebabs, cigarettes, romantic disappointments and depression: it doesn’t seem like anything, it’s actually a wonderful story of friendship reinventing itself before our eyes. Quite sublime.

The Bad Boys, watch for free on Arte.tv

The film on VOD: Love and the forests by Valérie Donzelli

Presented in the “Cannes Premières” category at the last Cannes Film Festival, Love and the forests starts as a romantic comedy, before turning into a suffocating thriller about a toxic relationship with two actors at the best of their form, Melvil Poupaud and Virginie Efira. Don’t miss the opportunity to catch up with Valérie Donzelli’s best film, rental for 2 euros during La Fête de la VOD.

Watch Love and the Forests on VOD on Première Max

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The nugget: The Assassin by Hou Hsiao Hsien

One of the most beautiful martial arts films of the 21st century (and beyond) signed by Taiwanese master HHH, not necessarily customary in fact. Star Shu Qi plays a formidable warrior engaged in a suicide mission. Choreographed like a ballet, as intimate as it is flamboyant, The Assassin is deserved. Totally deserved Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015.

Watch The Assassin for free on arte.tv

The documentary : First solitudes by Claire Simon

After Recreationin 1992, where she placed her camera in the courtyard of a nursery school, Claire Simon (Our body) confirmed in 2018 her talent for telling the story of the youth of her time, through masterful documentaries where she disappears behind those she films to capture and transmit their words and their exchanges. In this case, high school students from Ivry whose confidences (about the weight of their parents, the anguish of the future but also the first racing of the heart) give birth to a work where depth, modesty and mischief combine wonderfully .

Watch First Solitudes for free on MK2 Curiosity until October 19