What are we watching this weekend? Intimate Sorrentino, Brad Pitt in the paddock, a pure cinema trip…
Cinema, streaming, VOD, TV… Find the Première selection every Friday.
The film in theaters: La Grazia by Paolo Sorrentino
A lo-fi Sorrentino? The flamboyant filmmaker returns with a bittersweet and almost whispered political fable. We follow an aging president a few weeks before the end of his mandate and who will have to make essential decisions. This idealized politician is above all looking for his place in a world that is moving too fast for him. La Grazia advances like a lucid dream, oscillating between satire and secular prayer. At the center of the film, Toni Servillo, imperial, carries this inner journey towards grace as much as towards the abyss. Hallelujah?
What’s new at the cinema this week
The series: The Bridgerton Chronicles, season 4
We always return with pleasure to the cozy England of the 19th century. The romantic and sensual series even regains its brilliance with this lush new chapter, more captivating than ever. Centered on Benedict, the Chronicle becomes really fun again, carried by the irresistible charisma of Luke Thompson. Certainly, the recipe remains classic (with a strong scent of Cinderella floating in the air), but it remains deliciously addictive. The Yerin Ha / Luke Thompson duo sparks and exudes desire and complicity… A real lightness that was missing in season 3.
Watch The Bridgertons Chronicles on Netflix
The streaming film: Team Demolition by Angel Manuel Soto
Team Demolition: please ignore the impossible French title of The Wrecking Crew, in order to give you the opportunity to discover this friendly action comedy with Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista (here estranged half-brothers but forced to collaborate to solve their father’s murder). If well-built bare-handed combat scenes are your thing and Momoa’s delirious – really delirious – histrionics don’t scare you, you might find what you’re looking for in this film which mixes yakuza and Hawaiian culture (!) while quoting The Raid (they share the same cinematographer), Old Boy and the mechanics of certain video games. Not unforgettable, far from it, but a nice companion for your Saturday evening.
Watch Team Demolition on Prime Video
The film on TV: F1 the film by Joseph Kosinski
The surprise nomination of F1 at the next Oscar ceremony in the best film category should not mislead you: no, this is not great arthouse cinema, just a supersonic and euphoric ride, hatched by popcorn merchants who know their stuff very well – namely the team of Top Gun: Maverick (director Kosinski and producer Bruckheimer), with Brad Pitt in place of Tom Cruise and Formula 1 in the role of fighter planes. The plot twists are enormous and the characters are extremely caricatured (an old driver returning to the race, a young rookie who wants to take his place, a technical director who has a crush on Brad…), but the pleasure is immense and Kosinski’s mastery is truly astonishing. Ideal for leaving your brain in the paddock for 2h35.
Watch F1 the film Friday evening on Canal Plus (and streaming on MyCanal)
The film on VOD: Sirāt by Oliver Laxe
We can always dream that another world is possible, but we still have to agree to blow up the old one. Sirāt is a film that makes those who live and visit it bite the dust (hang in there!) The pitch is a MacGuffin (a decoy): A father accompanied by his toddler searches for his lost daughter in the underworld of partygoers and finds himself confronted with the tough job of (sur-)viving. Off-road trips, unbeaten paths, customized vehicles, monolithic speakers, big sounds, sand dunes, atrophied bodies and suddenly… emptiness. A void filled to the brim with philosophical questions. A film to put in the same playlist as 2001 and Mad Max. The thing is in the running for the Oscars and the Césars. Ave Laxe!
Watch Sirat on VOD on Première Max
The short film: Au bain des dames by Margaux Fournier
On the Bain des Dames beach, a group of retired friends meet up every day. They comb through their lives: sex, celibacy, fallen love story…Topless, the 3 friends proudly show off their bodies burned by the sun and time, under the not always complacent gaze of their sandy companions. “Compulsory bra for old people”: this provocative tag facing the Bath is an opportunity for them to talk about their relationship with the body and old age. Nominated for the 2026 Césars in the best documentary short film section, Au bain des dames, the first pop and offbeat film by Margaux Fournier, is a trip to Marseille that is worth the detour.
Watch Au bain des dames streaming on France.TV
The documentary: Mel Brooks: A 99-year-old legend by Judd Apatow
How could you refuse to spend almost four hours in the company of Mel Brooks, one of the funniest men on Earth? Judd Apatow went to knock on the door of the US joke giant, always good-natured, and came back with this absolutely irresistible two-part HBO documentary. It’s a bit the equivalent of the recent series Mr. Scorsese for the director of Frankenstein Junior and the Sheriff is in Jail, with crazy archives, guests in shambles (from Ben Stiller to Adam Sandler including the recently deceased David Lynch and Rob Reiner) and an avalanche of fascinating anecdotes. Mel Brooks became known in the 1960s with a sketch called The Man Who Was 2000 Years Old. He is only 99 (he will celebrate his 100th birthday in June), but that still gives him a lot of stories to tell.
Watch Mel Brooks: A 99-Year-Old Legend on HBO Max
