What are we watching this weekend? The Goldman Trial, Gen V, Henry Sugar…
Cinema, streaming, VOD, TV… Find advice from the editorial staff every Friday.
The film in theaters: The Goldman Trial by Cedric Khan
The trial film is on the rise in French cinema. There where Saint-Omer Or Anatomy of a fall, ventured outside the walls, Cédric Kahn remains in the courtroom and stares at the tense body of Pierre Goldman (Arieh Worthalter), ambiguous figure of the French extreme left and, incidentally, half-brother of Jean-Jacques. 1976, the 32-year-old man with magnificent eloquence is accused of murder during a robbery. At his side, the future tenor of the bar Georges Kiejman (played by Arthur Harari co-writer ofAnatomy of a fall), facing him, a French society which has not yet settled its accounts with the traumas of the Second World War and decolonization. Powerful.
What’s new at the cinema this week
Series : Gen V
Mystery, superpowers and hemoglobin: the first (and certainly not the last) spin-off of The Boys settles down at the university, where Vaught’s future recruits are in training. Between learning story and perfectly calibrated entertainment, Gen V has nothing to be ashamed of in front of her big sister.
Gen V, the first three episodes to watch on Prime Video.
The film in streaming: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar by Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson is coming to Netflix with four short films adapted from stories by Roald Dahl. The quality is necessarily variable but the first, The Wonderful Story Henry Sugar, worth the detour: 37 minutes with a five-star cast (Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, etc.) about a wealthy man who discovers the existence of a guru capable of seeing without his eyes. A summary of the staging and narration for a fable of drawers, where the worlds of Anderson and Dahl mischievously coexist.
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, watch on Netflix.
The film on VOD: Sick of myself by Kristoffer Borgli
How can you manage to exist in the eyes of others when you are in a relationship with an artist-designer who is as talented as he is egocentric and leaves no room for you? Signe, the heroine of this Norwegian film (discovered at Un Certain Regard last year) has found a radical solution: to make people believe that she has an extremely rare skin disease… which really does disfigure it and, in doing so, put it at the center of all attention. A fierce satire of narcissism 2.0 at work in our daily life of social networks king. Ruben Östlund, more subtle and less pretentious?
Watch Sick of Myself on VOD on Première Max
The nugget: Bellflower by Evan Glodell
Out of nowhere, shot on the fly, Bellflower told in 2011 the end-of-the-world fantasies of two slackers crazy about Mad Max. Twelve years later, Evan Glodell has apparently made other films, but they remain invisible… Which reinforces the magical aura of his first feature, a reverie burned by the Californian sun and the flames of the Apocalypse.
Bellflower, to watch for free until October 5 on MK2 Curiosity
The classic : El Perdido by Robert Aldrich
Little known for being in lace, Bob Aldrich, supported here by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo on the screenplay, and his star actor (Kirk Douglas) on production, signs a deliberately impure and perverse western, carried by dramatic stakes worthy of tragedy Greek. In addition to Douglas, Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone, at the height of their beauty, Joseph Cotten has fun playing the disillusioned old man. Essential therefore.
El Perdido by Robert Aldrich (1961), Sunday at 9 p.m. on Arte, and streaming on Arte.tv
