What are we watching this weekend: Oppenheimer, Bis Repetita, Road House…
Cinema, streaming, VOD, TV… Find advice from the editorial staff every Friday.
The film in theaters: Again by Emilie Noblet
With its jaw-dropping pitch – dunces find themselves on the front line of an international Latin competition – and its selection at the Alpe d'Huez Festival, we didn't think much of this comedy. Wrongly. Well written, funny, well acted, intelligently written, the first film by Emilie Noblet (the series Parliament) is therefore a very good surprise. And then a little Latin will always be better than karaoke with Michèle Laroque.
What's new at the cinema this week
The film on TV: Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan
The big winner of the 2024 Oscars arrives on television, having surpassed all the hopes of its creator. To make such a hit (more than $900 million in revenue worldwide, let's remember) with a biopic with such a serious subject, a talkative work mixing scientific themes, universal fears and intimate drama, is an achievement. Chris Nolan has a lot to do with it. Its casting, impeccable, too.
Watch Oppenheimer Friday at 9 p.m. on Canal Plus (and streaming on MyCanal until June 27)
Series : The Three-Body Problem
If we find certain faults of Weiss and Benioff, the creators of Game Of Thrones sign yet another series with spectacular ambition. A human science fiction epic with dizzying stakes, which questions science, people, existence, by touching on the idea of extraterrestrial life. A fascinating story and a successful adaptation.
Watch The Three-Body Trouble on Netflix
The film in streaming: Road House by Doug Liman
A remake of the (cu-)cult film from 1989, this Road House is played by a Jake Gyllenhaal who is more steroidal than ever. Director Doug Liman offers a brutal, furious and modern version of the fight film by giving his club bouncer a past as an MMA fighter. Between biting irony, muscular casting and beastly staging ideas, the first big part of the film hits the mark (and badly). But when Liman returns to the rails of the average blockbuster and the dramaturgy gets complicated, we've seen it a hundred times, and we find ourselves there with our heads broken by the stressed (dis)assembly (fights, speedboat chases and animal revenge). Damage.
Watch Road House on Prime Video
The film on VOD: Vincent must dieby Stéphan Castang
Notice to lovers of paranoid films: from his first production where Karim Leklou is suddenly attacked as soon as he makes eye contact with a stranger, Stéphan Castang is in line with the best John Carpenter. Be careful, it hits hard, but it's also sometimes very gentle, the victim of this strange curse managing to find love while fleeing his anonymous enemies. After this slap, we can't wait to see what his next project will be.
Watch Vincent Must Die on VOD on Première Max
The classic : No spring for Marnie by Alfred Hitchcock (1964)
At the beginning of the sixties, Hitchcock did not wait for Palma or Argento to imitate himself. In a sort of inevitably dizzying mise en abyme which also perhaps testifies to a creative weariness, Hitch has fun playing with his own motifs (MacGuffin, fetishism, bun, key, knife…) He delivers a film with Marnie -long despised by moviegoers that propels the viewer into a feverish trance. Sean Connery, more Bond than Bond, holds his own against Grant and Stewart. Go!
Watch No Spring for Marnie streaming on France.TV
The documentary : Scum manifesto of Ovidie
In 1968, actress and author Valerie Solanas had her moment of fame when she attempted to assassinate Andy Warhol. A gesture that made the Scum Manifesto that she had written a year earlier. A firefight where she denounced patriarchy and called for the eradication of men. Ovidie looked into the chaotic and violent life of this woman, beaten by her grandfather and raped by her father. An edifying and enlightening documentary on the origins of radical feminism.
Watch Scum Manifesto on Arte.TV
