What are we looking at this weekend? Albert Serra in the arena, Hollywood by Seth Rogen, a deadly film …
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The film in theaters: Tarde de Soledad Albert Serra
Two hours in the arena, in the company of a Peruvian bullfighter beautiful as a god, whose camera captures each breath, each movement; Without forgetting to fix the terrible moments of agony of the bulls put to death … Albert Serra’s new documentary (Pacific) strips the bullfight of all his stacked attire to fix what is most atrocious and more beautiful, both at the same time, without making any distinction, in a large dizzying trip, between the rock concert and the mythological narrative. We hope you will find it unforgettable.
New to the movies this week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6vrqy9luf8
The series: The studio
If Hollywood and the manufacture of films interest you a little bit, it is impossible to miss out The studiofierce satire of an industry that sold his soul. At the same time co-creator, co-director and main role, Seth Rogen plays a cinephile producer propelled to the head of a studio, and who must deal with a shareholder in search of profitability. The really hilarious series supports where it hurts and radiography the last rattle of a certain American cinema.
Watch The Studio on Apple TV+ (two episodes available, a new episode every Wednesday until May 21, 2025)
The movie on TV: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice from Tim Burton
“It’s Showtime!” Boosted by the success of WednesdayTim Burton wanted to bring out his bio-exorcist from the world of the dead for a new eccentric trip. After more than 30 years, the filmmaker returns to his twisted designs and his creaky humor, offering some moments of bravery to his actors. All the air of having fun well, old ones (Michael Keaton always at the top, Winona Ryder badly haunted by her past) with new ones: Willem Dafoe which cabotin at Tim is obvious, and the first appearance of Monica Bellucci is in itself an excellent best-of of Burton cinema. If we can tick on some inconsistencies/facilities of scenarios to assemble all its intrigues, Beetlejuice 2 is a very fun comeback
Watch Beetlejuice this Friday at 9 p.m. on Canal + and Streaming on MyCanal
The film in VOD: Fotogenico by Marcia Romano and Benoit Sabatier
The Odyssey of Raoul, ex-representative in Pinard who arrives in Marseille in search of the traces of his disappeared daughter, and members of his feminin-electro-punk group named Fotogenico… a great film on mourning and the psychogeography of a underground Marseille exorcised by an explosive humor (and an incredible Christophe Paou, literally possessed by role), Fotogenico is one of the obsessions of the editorial First Since Cannes 2024 -the film was at ACID, the place of more or less visible experiments. Speaking of visibility, 5,880 French people saw Fotogenico in theaters at the end of December. It is only up to you to join worship.
Watch Fotogenico in VOD on first max
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bwv9sboats
The movie streaming: Border Line by Alejandro Rojas and Juan Vasquez
It is a moment that all those who have to enter US territory approach with a slight anxiety. The famous passage by the border police and the intrusive questions of his agents who seem to be linked only for one goal: to push you to fault. This excellent first long, perfectly transcribes this tension in 77 minutes going crescendo without the slightest time. We follow a Venezuelan and a Spanish in a couple who left Barcelona to start a new life across the Atlantic without suspecting the nightmare in which they will dive by placing their feet at New York airport. The entire action takes place between the four walls of two offices. And the real interrogations led separately that they will chain there are shattering the certainties of the two characters one on the other and constantly evolving the look that we spectators, let’s look at them. A stifling suspense.
Watch Border Line Streaming on MyCanal
The classic: The rule of the game by Jean Renoir
With this film, Renoir has become the Balzac of cinema be the plague of middle school students who get to say that it is great art and fall asleep from the first sequence. To these little shit that we were also, let us incite them to penetrate again to the colinière where for a few days (hours?) Is played all the beauty and the tragedy of humanity. The film dates from 1939, just before the great disaster. Renoir makes his characters dance at the edge of an ability to recklessly annoyed. Ultra-Choral film, music staging, incessant back and forth game between people from above and those below, setting of the frame, spatialization by sound … If with all that you do not reread Father Goriot, we can’t do anything for you.
Watch the game rule this Friday at 12:50 am on France 3 then streaming on France.tv
