What are we watching this weekend? Claes Bang facing Mitterrand, a great Buñuel, a nugget of horror…
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The film in theaters: Scarlet or the eternity of Mamoru Hosoda
A young warrior from the Middle Ages stuck in purgatory and haunted by a quest for revenge. In the midst of shadows and chaos, a light: a young boy from today. Two lost beings who will try to synchronize their passion to taste the sweet eternal rest. As usual, Hosoda, genius of Japanese animation (The Crossing of Time, The Wolf Children, Ame and Yiki, Belle, etc.) brings together different universes to better explore the fault lines of a world in ruins (ours). With this opus, the filmmaker has certainly never seemed so pessimistic, seeking in Shakespearean prose (Hamlet) the secret of all our torments. Let us rest assured, however, that all is not lost. And you have to wait for a wonderful finale to experience beauty.
What’s new at the cinema this week
The series: Rooster
If Steve Carell has been playing TV roles in recent years, with Rooster, he finally seems to find a character that suits him. In the role of this writer of successful station novels, divorced, and become a college teacher to support his daughter, Carell returns to his score of a lost fifty-year-old à la Crazy, Stupid, Love, tender, awkward and hilarious. Navigating between a university president obsessed with saunas, a resilient daughter, an obnoxious British son-in-law and Gen-Z students he doesn’t understand, he carries a happy cockroach with him. An absurd comedy with gentle melancholy.
Watch Rooster on HBO Max
The movie streaming: Redux Redux by Kevin and Matthew McManus
Brilliantly minimalist and eye-catching concept: a woman travels from parallel universe to parallel universe to endlessly kill her daughter’s killer. Public prize at the last Gérardmer festival, Redux Redux is a very small object which flexes the muscles very hard and recalls both the high concepts of the 2000s (we think of the diabolical Primer by Shane Carruth) and those of the 80s (several explicit nods to Terminator). The film would have benefited from being even more to the bone and avoiding some dialogue scenes that were not exactly happy, but there is a lot of pleasure to be had with this obsessive sci-fi thriller.
Watch Redux Redux streaming on Sooner and Shadowz platforms.
The film on VOD: The Unknown of the Grande Arche by Stéphane Demoustier
The little-known and fascinating story of the Danish architect chosen to everyone’s surprise to build an emblematic building in the business district of La Défense, in the early 1980s. Impeccably portrayed by Claes Bang, this modern Icarus finds himself confronted with the megalomania of Mitterrand and the slowness of the French bureaucracy. And quite simply in reality. The naive artist locks himself into his cube project and the square format of Stéphane Demoustier, who confirms after Borgo his status as a director who counts. You will never see the Grande Arche like before again…
Watch The Unknown of the Grande Arche on VOD on Première Max
The film on TV: Fainted by Zach Cregger
One night, at 2:17 a.m., 17 children from the same class left their homes and vanished into the night. The whole town then tries to understand what could have happened… That’s the pitch: let’s say no more for fear of spoiling some of the fun, but know that Évanouis multiplies the points of view on these disappearances, and that the film perfectly lives up to its tempting promises. After the highly acclaimed Barbarian, Zach Cregger establishes himself as an author to follow with this thriller that is at once creepy, tense, pop and clever.
Watch Évanouis this Saturday on Canal+
The classic: The Diary of a Maid by Luis Buñuel (1964)
The Spaniard Luis Buñuel, a traveling companion of the Surrealists, spent his entire life as a filmmaker exploring the behavior of a bourgeoisie whose supposed hypocrisy served as a catalyst for its delusions. Delusions of cruel lucidity. Witness this Maid, adaptation of a novel by Octave Mirbeau (1900) whose action transposed to the French provinces at the end of the 1920s anticipates the abject behavior soon to be resolved in collaboration. We follow the itinerary of a maid (Jeanne Moreau) who comes from Paris to help a bourgeois house that is rotten from the inside. In this social hell where fetishism, repressed desires and desires for domination fail to offer a semblance of acceptable appearances, a crime will be committed. For the maid, it’s time to stop being silent. “It is not my fault if the souls, whose veils are torn off and exposed, exhale such a strong odor of rot. » A poisonous classic.
Watch The Diary of a Chambermaid streaming on Arte.TV
