What are we watching this weekend? Two forgotten masterpieces, a frosty series, an animated gem…

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

The film in theaters: Moving by Shinji Sômai

Celebrated by many of his peers as the flagship filmmaker of his generation, the work of the Japanese Shinji Sômai (who died in 2001 at the age of 53) remained almost unknown on French soil. An oversight repaired thanks to the release of this new film in our theaters – although screened in Un Certain Regard in Cannes exactly 30 years ago – featuring with incredible mastery an 11-year-old girl confronted with the separation of her parents. A divorce told from a child’s perspective for a poignant work, sliding from realism to dreaminess with insane fluidity. What if one of the best films of 2023 was from 1993?

What’s new at the cinema this week

The lost film: The Appointment by Lindsey C. Vickers

We already told you this a few months ago in the columns of Première but this terrifying Appointment, the only feature film by British director Lindsay C. Vickers, a former Hammer soldier, is a marvel. This story of psychological terror around a father haunted by his own daughter, was saved from the waters by the BFI which found a copy at the last minute (the last!). From the first minutes, anxiety grabs you and won’t let you go. The staging dares to do insane things and through its precision shapes a mental prison… Crazy!

The Appointment was released in a handful of theaters in France before the release of its limited edition on Blu-Ray, available for pre-order

The film on VOD: Marcel the shell (with his shoes)

The hero of this cute fake documentary, a funny, shy little guy ten millimeters tall (and who has the voice of Jenny Slate – brilliant cinema idea) who lives with his grandmother in an Airbnb, searches for his missing family and befriended by a divorced hipster videographer, has not left us since its release in theaters last June. If you’re looking to have an original, kawaii and heartbreaking Halloween, ask Marcel, but be careful, once he’s here, he never leaves you.

Watch Marcel the shell (with his shoes) on VOD on Première Max

The film in streaming: The Good Stars by Hirokazu Kore-eda

Kore-eda treated the theme of family extensively (Like father, like son, Our little sister, A family matter…)but the Japanese filmmaker has once again managed to find a captivating and moving new angle with The Good Stars. An irresistible road trip, filmed in South Korea, around a story of a stolen baby which earned Song Kang-Ho an acting prize at Cannes in 2022. To see or rewatch in the release of his next film , Innocenceon December 27.

Watch The Good Stars streaming on MyCanal

Series : Polar Park

Mouthe, a small village in the depths of Franche-Comté, renowned as the coldest in France, is the perfect icy setting for a totally frosty thriller. Gérald Hustache-Mathieu adapts his own film Poupoupidou (2011) and reunites with Jean-Paul Rouve and Guillaume Gouix for a new investigation, a little different, but devilishly exciting. With its improbable tone and an assumed surrealist atmosphere, this funny detective series never falls into grotesque farce, navigating brilliantly between sinister thriller and stylized comedy.

Watch Polar Park streaming on Arte.tv

The classic : The Creatures (1966)

As we celebrate Catherine Deneuve’s 80th birthday this week, we are rediscovering some of her lesser-known films, like this strange romance by Agnès Varda. While she just shines in The good life by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, the young actress on the rise changes register opposite Michel Piccoli, as a traumatized mute wife, recluse in Noirmoutier, while her writer husband searches for fantastic answers to the unfortunate people who overwhelm them. A lunar tale in a picturesque setting that Varda films with her quasi-documentary style, always so close to the people.

Watch The Creatures streaming on Arte.tv

The documentary: Fellini, confidences rediscovered

In 1981, Fellini received Jean-Christophe Rosé, a French journalist, in Rome for three days of interviews. The author of The good life talks about his childhood, his entry into cinema, his successes, but also his failures. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the maestro’s death, these interviews, a large part of which was unfortunately lost by the production of the time, are finally exhumed. The result is a living portrait of Fellini, where his words are interspersed with numerous archives.

Watch Fellini, confidences rediscovered on Friday October 27 at 10:55 p.m. on France, and streaming on France.tv