What are we looking at this weekend? A favorite of the Oscars, the return of a cult series, a great social thriller …
Cinema, streaming, VOD, TV … Find editorial advice every Friday.
The indoor film: The brutalist from Brady Corbet
Sometimes you have to shout to be heard. If the film criticism (AB) uses superlatives (“monumental”“crush“,”masterpiece“,”A reinforced concrete uppercut“…), The architect László Tóth, hero of The brutalisthe does not homes. He builds buildings to exorcise his traumas. The American filmmaker Brady Corbet, 36, puts himself up to his subject playing the builders of a maximalist cinema (vistvison, intermission, monster duration … But you already know all that!) To approach an necessarily secret intimacy . It is his cry launched to himself and his art. This even imperfect windy is of an incredible audacity. So yes, swings of ” masterpiece »At all going. We will have all the time to discuss it once you have seen it.
The series: In short 2
Redo Brief 13 years later, by transforming the pastille into a real series (six episodes of 30 minutes). The project was perilous. But the result is beyond expectations. By changing format, the creation of Kyan Khojandi and Navo transcends himself and brilliantly treats the crisis of the forties of our hero, without betraying his DNA and his tone, which had revolutionized television in the early 2010s. With the added bonus Impressive list of supporting roles and guests that all bring something to the self -centered story of I. A great and real success.
Look in short 2 on Disney Plus
The film in VOD: Souleymane’s story by Boris Lojkine
48 hours in the life of a undocumented Guinean, a bicycle delivery man in Paris, awaiting regularization. Boris Lojkine’s third feature film (Hope,, Camille) is lived as a race against the watch which combines a veracing veracity vertiginous and an incredible emotional power that fiction insufficient. The film which conquered Cannes, the criticism and the public which offered it one of the success-ups of 2024 is one of the candidates more than serious to various César. Starting with that of the revelation for Abu Sangaré, the interpreter of Souleymane, with a life course almost similar to that of the character he embodies. A race against the watch with a dizzying veracity which is lived as a thriller.
Look at the story of Souleymane in VOD on first max
The movie streaming: The throat of Scott Derrickson
Two elite snipers – Ana Taylor -Joy and Miles Teller – are assigned for one year at stations, two laps located on each side of a large chasm. What can the mist escape this immense hole hide? We will know it quite early, yet it is surely the least interesting aspect of this froccized and a little sexy series B (the film is a lot of rest on the obvious alchemy between its two actors), where we fall in love with Distance by filming chelous monsters out of hell. A little Scott Derrickson but solid entertainment.
Watch The Gorge on Apple TV+
The classic: The pink panther by Blake Edwards (1963)
“… Pudum, Pudum, Pudumdumdum…“Even in writing we all hear the theme that Henry Mancini composed for this Pink panther. A film so strong that we come to forget that it was he who inspired the animated series and not the opposite. It is that here, everything is perfect: Peter Sellers, the Sixties aesthetics, the photo of Lathrop (faithful of Blake Edwards), David Niven, Claudia Cardinale and a scenario with incorrect burlesque … From an inspector to the French name (Clouseau) on a mission in a jet set ski resort to secure a princess. “… Pudum, Pudum, Pudumdumdum… “
Watch the pink panther in streaming on France.tv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwa_ar7_quw
The Docu: Bonnie, the queen of the castings in Hollywood
She has so many archives of stars’ auditions that she could draw a complete series! Bonnie Timmerman, it was the woman who discovered Steve Buscemi, Giancarlo Esposito or Benicio Del Toro, at the request of filmmaker Michael Mann, who wanted the most diverse casting possible for her series Miami vice. She also had to choose between Natalie Portman and Kate Winslet for Heatbrought together the flagship couple of Dirty Dancing… dozens of actors confide in front of her camera, and if she says almost nothing about the trauma who makes her feel so close to them when they have to play painful scenes, we guess all the humanity of this woman who At the eye to find the talents of tomorrow.
Look at Bonnie, the queen of the castings in Hollywood Sunday at 11:10 p.m. on Arte and in replay on Arte.tv
