What are we watching this weekend? The Ripley series, Black Flies, Pierrot le fou, Perfect Days…
Cinema, streaming, VOD, TV… Find advice from the Première editorial team every Friday.
The film in theaters: Black Flies by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Sean Penn in pain, his face hollow like never before, here bears the marks of despair. Opposite him, the young but far from blue Tye Sheridan plays the apostles. He helps his eldest to sink a little deeper into the abysses of hell. Black Flies follows the nightly daily life of two New York emergency workers confronted with human misery. The Big Apple, far from its gentrified neighborhoods, is a court of miracles where all humanity has disappeared. Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire signs a deliberately suppressed drama. Beautiful in all its darkness. Lovers of the great outdoors, go your way…
What's new at the cinema this week
Series : Ripley by Steven Zaillian
These days, it seems that author Patricia Highsmith is emerging from limbo – her correspondence was republished last year and her shadow looms over Hollywood, Saltburn being the latest example. The brilliant Steven Zaillian takes the opportunity to adapt his classic The Talented Mr. Ripley. Far from the sensual and colorful versions of René Clément (Full Sun) and Anthony Minghella (The Talented Mr. Ripley), he signs a sharp, bitter and dark Black and White version, which does not make the hero a queer character, but an icy being who goes from petty fraud to grand luxury fraud. Andrew Scott gives a performance as neurasthenic as it is disturbing and marks the role forever.
Watch Ripley on Netflix
The film in sstreaming: Girls syouryou by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss
By diving into the heart of a democracy workshop bringing together 500 teenage girls from Missouri trying their hand at organizing an electoral campaign as well as forming a Supreme Court, this documentary recounts the experience of being a young woman in a political world dominated by men but also the time of the first public speeches, the first failures, direct confrontations with inequalities linked to their sex or even a dress rehearsal before one day setting out to race for the White House… A nugget.
Watch Girls State on Apple TV+ (and Canal+ in France)
The film on TV: Spider-Man: No Way Home by Jon Watts
Like part of the press, Première had been choosy with this orgy of fan service, while the public was unreservedly enthusiastic about the historic reunion of the three Spideys: Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland. Two and a half years later, we have not changed our minds about Jon Watts' extinct production, but it is clear that No Way Home remains the last major superheroic event of the current decade (if we exclude the animated Spider-Man). This genre needs films like this, cinemas and fans too. Deapool & Wolverine should confirm it this summer.
Watch Spider-Man: No Way Home Sunday at 9:10 p.m. on TF1
The film on VOD: Perfect Days by Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders on a trip to Tokyo on the health side. His quasi-mute hero is the pee man from a chic neighborhood who scrubs with grace and humility. In his car, our man listens to K7s by Lou Reed and Patti Smith, reads Faulkner before falling asleep. As a result, we want to grab a sponge and help him in his daily task. “Life is a miracle” the great Koji Yakusho seems to whisper in our ears. Blessed are the humble in spirit.
Watch Perfect Days on VOD on Première Max
The classic : Pierrot le fou by Jean-Luc Godard (1965)
Godard still pop, plays with bright colors and ruptures of all kinds to propel Karina-Belmondo towards the Mediterranean. Live fast and die by dynamite. Sixties youth no longer have stars in their eyes so they pretend to be bored. THE “What can I do, I don't know what to do! » by Karina becomes a mantra. Pierrot le fou, a liberated adaptation of a thriller from the Série Noire, announces the revolt to follow, the one which will gradually lead Godard towards other shores. In the meantime, he has created a real summer hit with this feature film.
