What are we watching this weekend? Platini stripped bare, Damon Lindelof’s super series, a classic with Tom Cruise…

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The film in theaters: The Unknown by Arthur Harari

Léa Seydoux wakes up in Niels Schneider’s body, and vice versa. This is called a “body swap”. Except that the Onoda filmmaker is not here to laugh and that the inversion of identity is considered in its existential side. So painful. Where John Woo made a paranoid thriller (Volte-face) and Alain Chabat a delirious comedy (Didier), Arthur Harari creates a very dark labyrinthine drama. What should we do when our appearance is no longer in sync with our interiority? How to recognize yourself and make yourself known? That’s the whole point of this often brilliant film-trip, sometimes trapped by its own astonishment. The two “strangers” thus travel in both tangible and mental spaces to reveal the difficulty of being in the world. By forcing the line very slightly we can say that it’s a bit like our Backrooms!

What’s new at the cinema this week

The series: Lanterns

Fifteen years after the disastrous film with Ryan Reynolds, DC finally gets its revenge. With Damon Lindelof at the helm, the new HBO series performs a balancing act over an impressive narrative. The brilliant American creator performs the same sleight of hand that he brilliantly succeeded with Watchmen (in 2019) and transforms the hero into a rural thriller in the style of True Detective, without sacrificing his cosmic mythology. Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre form an electric duo in Hal Jordan and John Stewart, at the heart of an investigation that mixes racial tensions, fractures in deep America and aliens. Ambitious, dark, rhythmic and perfectly integrated into the new DC Universe, the series confirms that Lindelof definitely knows how to reinvent superheroes without betraying them.

Watch Lanterns on HBO Max

The film on VOD: Hokum by Damian McCarthy

Hollywood analysts say that 2026 is the “spooky year”: the year of spookiness, that of the historic triumphs of a whole bunch of horror films, from hits from YouTube Obsession and Backrooms, to the big machines Scream 7 or Scary Movie 6. All the more reason not to forget along the way the nugget Hokum, released in theaters last spring, an excellent little scare film crafted with malice and meticulous attention to detail. maniac by Damian McCarthy, an Irish director with a passion for weird trinkets and hallucinatory folk legends. In the main role, the beloved Adam Scott, as comfortable roaming the corridors of a terrifying Shining-style hotel as the opening open spaces of the Severance series.

Watch Hokum on VOD on Première Max

The film streaming: Eddington by Ari Aster

What if we went back for a trip to Eddington, New Mexico, a little covid town that the king of Malaysian horror Ari Aster filmed last year as a sort of precipitate of today’s United States? With Joaquin Phoenix as a conspiratorial sheriff at the end of his rope, this degenerate Rio Bravo reveals even better on second viewing its ferocity as a devastating and dilapidated farce. And why not watch it in a double bill with One Battle After Another, by Paul Thomas Anderson, the other major US film of 2025 about America on the verge of implosion? If you’re in the mood, give it a try.

Watch Eddington on MyCanal

The documentary: Platini by Guillaume Priou

6 episodes of 40 minutes each only to tell the story of Michel Platini or rather the Platinis – the player, the coach, the organizer of the 98 World Cup, the leader of the highest European football authorities. A hell of a challenge that Guillaume Priou rises to with flying colors by managing to appeal to lay people as well as football fans. Thanks to the incredible richness and variety of the archives which bear witness to a time when access to sports stars was not closed off as it is today. But also and above all thanks to the device which regularly places Platini face to face with these images of the past, where his reactions – in words as well as in silence – outline the sensitive man who hides behind the lodger and the confident sportsman – like the greatest – of his genius. One of the best documentaries about a French sports legend.

Watch Platini on MyCanal (the first episode is free)

The classic: The Firm by Sydney Pollack

In February 2025 when celebrating the memory of the great Gene Hackman, we should not forget his role as a perfect slut in this white-collar thriller by Pollack. Mentor of a young lawyer with long, white teeth recently recruited by a firm (Tom Cruise of course), Hackman aka Avery Tolar explains to him the tricks of a profession where dissimilation and double-dealing require him to constantly look over his shoulder. Adapted from a twisty novel by John Grisham, set to music by the brilliant Dave Grusin, this Firm, all in chiaroscuro, chic interiors and three-piece suits, is a marvel of a high-end thriller like Hollywood doesn’t really make anymore these days. Cruise runs in all directions forgetting his private life, Hackman permanently hides the horizon from him and Jeanne Tripplehorn makes sure that the trap does not close completely on them. Great!

Watch The Firm streaming on Arte.TV