What are we watching this weekend? A double Vince Vaughn, all-powerful Vincent D’Onofrio, Philippe Noiret Nazi killer…
Cinema, streaming, VOD, TV… Find the Première selection every Friday.
The film in theaters: A Day with My Father by Akinola Davies Jr.
1993. A father walks with his two sons in Lagos, at a time when Nigeria is experiencing its first free elections since the 1983 coup. The same evening, the military junta in place will cancel the outcome of the vote which will be unfavorable to it but this day will nevertheless remain apart in the memory of these two children savoring every second of this trip allowing them to spend time with this loving father but rarely present because he is constantly looking for work. For his first feature, co-written with his brother, Akinola Davies Jr. creates a powerful work in permanent and perfectly orchestrated balance between the intimate and the political. The very first Nigerian film to win an official Cannes selection last May, it left with a special mention from the Caméra d’Or jury. His name will matter in the years to come.
What’s new at the cinema this week
The series: Daredevil: Born Again, season 2
The Marvel series is back and breaking free. Darker and more radical, this season 2 plunges New York under the influence of an all-powerful Fisk, who rules his city with an iron fist. Between arbitrary raids, fear and repression, the story becomes spectacularly political and echoes the current events of the America of 2026, that of ICE and a power that is drifting insidiously. Vincent D’Onofrio crushes everything with his impressive presence. Opposite, Daredevil enters into resistance, in a clandestine fight under high tension. A bitter struggle, carried by sharp writing which precisely examines the faults of a democracy ready to falter.
Watch Daredevil: Born Again on Disney Plus
The film streaming: Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice by BenDavid Grabinski
It’s always a pleasure to see Vince Vaughn in good shape, his recent career choices having almost made us forget his comedic genius. So here he is in duplicate in Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, where he plays a gangster who accidentally goes back a few months in the past, and takes the opportunity to correct a bloody night that he regrets terribly. Except that his “him” from the past is not of this opinion… At his side, a James Marsden of the great days populates this very amusing action comedy mixed with SF. A film so nice that we are ready to forget its easy storyline and certain slow motion effects that make no sense.
Watch Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice on Disney+
The film on VOD: Love me tender by Anna Cazenave-Cambet
In 2020, Constance Debré signed Love Me Tender, an autofiction where she recounted her fight against her ex-husband who, not having tolerated her leaving him to experience female adventures, had decided to request sole custody of their son and the forfeiture of his parental authority. Five years later, Anna Cazenave-Cambet took on this eminently personal story and succeeded in making the story of this stomach-churning injustice her own. And she found in the always exceptional Vicky Krieps an actress capable of playing with infinite naturalness all the complexity of a role where nothing should ever show through. Since each revolt would have the effect of reducing her chances of regaining her rights as a mother. His absence from the César nominations remains a major injustice.
Watch Love me tender on VOD on Première Max
The Movie on TV: One Battle After Another by Paul Thomas Anderson
The 2026 Oscars put an end to an anomaly by finally honoring the work of Paul Thomas Anderson. We don’t yet know where One Battle After Another fits into his immense filmography, but it’s certainly an instant classic. A film of great richness, to see and rewatch, which we will still talk about in 10 or 20 years. For its virtuoso staging, its iconic shots, its fantastic soundtrack and its actors, each one more good than the last, starting with the revelation Chase Infiniti. Already an absolute star whose emergence will forever be associated with this new monument of American cinema.
Watch One Battle After Another this Friday evening on Canal Plus (and streaming on MyCanal)
The classic: The old rifle by Robert Enrico (1975)
Since the rest of the 2026 cinema year will be marked in France by the great stories of the Second World War (after Les Rayons et les Ombres will arrive in not so scattered order a diptych on De Gaulle and a biopic on Jean Moulin), rewatching Le Vieux Fusil has a strange effect. Inspired by the bloody tragedy of Ouradour-sur-Glane which saw the routed Nazi army massacre an entire village in Haute-Vienne, this vigilante movie disguised as a historical drama shamelessly replays the facts. Or a somewhat dim-witted doctor (Philippe Noiret) hiding in his castle, executing one by one the German soldiers who liquidated all the villagers, starting with his wife (Romy Schneider) and his daughter. A feverish and excessive film – Noiret in Chuck Norris mode or almost! -, dubbed by almost everyone (3.5 million entries) This Old rifle pierced with heady flashbacks, will triumph at the first César ceremony in 1976.
Watch The Old Gun streaming on France.TV
