What are we looking at this weekend? Timothée Chalamet in Bob Dylan, Ben Affleck vs Jon Bernthal, Nuit Blanche 2025 …
Cinema, streaming, VOD, TV … Find editorial advice every Friday.
The film in theaters: Summer garden by Shinji Somai
From Kore-Eda to Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)we no longer count the Japanese directors who present Shinji Somai as a major inspiration of their cinema. Disappeared prematurely at 53 years in 2001, most of his films had remained unpublished in theaters in France until the distributor survived this oblivion. And after the masterful Movingwe can admire since Wednesday summer garden (produced in 1994) where the improbable friendship between three kids in short pants in search of thrills and an eccentric old man installed in an isolated house which they press on the verge of spending from life to death. An initiatory story of luminous poetry around the acceptance of death by children.
New to the movies this week
The movie streaming: Mr Wolff 2 by Gavin O’Connor
The accountant is in the place. Once again. Ben Affleck returns to distribute his blows and his financial bonuses under the costume of Christian Wolff. If the first opus had been a little too serious, this suite fully assumes its crazy side and the John-Wickization of the series. Seeing the Hitman – Autistic Hacker a speed dating algorithm or learning country dance is as absurd as enjoyable. But the real surprise of this suite is Bernthal. As an unstable and endearing brother, he steals each scene from the film. Their dysfunctional duo structures the film thanks to a perfect alchemy between social awkwardness and lethal efficiency – these two solitary do not know how to be brothers, but excellent to shoot the bad guys. The scenario does not rigorously make no sense, but it allows at least Gavin O’Connor to chain spectacular Gunfights and moments of quirky comedy (or even Décing – the introduction of Bernthal is a summit). In four words? The account is good!
Watch Mr Wolff 2 on Video Prime
The series: Oriental plain
Between mafia and family tragedy, Oriental plain immerses us in the burning dust in eastern Corsica. Reda, ex-Loyal Tuard in the clan, finds his half-sister Inès, a young anti-mafia judge ready to shine. Between fractured identity, justice and loyalty, Pierre Leccia (Mafiosa) Sign a tense and immersive fresco, carried by Lina El Arabi and Raphaël Acloque. A striking painting of Corsican banditry (its thugs, its settling of accounts, its rigged markets) which is not afraid of caricature. The creator avoids pitfall, by injecting into his breathtaking police mechanics of real human and social issues. Oriental plain
Impression by its narrative density, its territorial anchoring and the quality of its almost entirely Corsican cast.
Look at the oriental plain on Canal+
The event: Nuit Blanche 2025 in Paris
For the 130th anniversary of the Envation of Cinema by the Lumière brothers, the city of Paris decided to pay tribute to the 7th art for its Night Blanche 2025. Appointed artistic director of the event, the French director Valérie Donzelli has concocted an ambitious program. With in particular an unprecedented animated film by Michel Gondry to discover near the Montparnasse station, installations scattered all over the capital and films of great directors (Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman, Delphine Seyrig) to (re) discover outdoors. If you are in the region, take advantage of it, it’s free!
The 2025 Night Night program
The film in VOD: A perfect stranger by James Mangold
The big loser of the last Oscar ceremony was however the most beautiful of the “Oscar films” of the past season. In the noble sense of the term: a delight for high -flying Hollywood craftsmanship, in the service of the story of the electric metamorphosis of Bob Dylan in the mid -1960s, when the herald of engaged folk became a poorly combed rocker, which enraged purists but propels the world into a new era. Reconstitution in love with the New York Bohemia of the time, a brilliant performance of Timothy Chalamet in superstar in the fog, insane musical scenes … Oscars obviously do not know but the US cinema of “adult”, intelligent and inspired studio, still exists. And Bob Dylan (the real one), who validated the project, agrees with us. This is the essential.
Look at a perfect stranger in VOD on first max
The film on TV: Gladiator 2 from Ridley Scott
The continuation of the cult film, which nobody demanded, did not have the success, neither commercial nor criticism, of the original film released in 2000. The project of a Gladiator 3 teased by Ridley Scoot during the promotion seems buried … Still, we took our foot in front of this assumed B series, where Paul Mescal embodies the son of Maximus and Denzel Washington recounts his Alonzo Harris Day in toga. A film Too Much, with its baboons and its sharks in CGI, and its degenerate emperors duo played by Joseph Quinn and Fred Hechinger, but also sacred epic moments. Total entertainment where Scott never seeks to reach the legend of Gladiator, simply to put our sight.
Watch Gladiator 2 Friday at 9 p.m. on Canal and Streaming on MyCanal
The classic: Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick
If the notion of a painting living in the cinema almost inevitably imposes a stored academism, what about this absolute masterpiece that is Barry Lyndon, a work that erects each plan on a pictorial pedestal? Recently revised in a 4K restored copy at the last Cannes Film Festival, the incessant zooms-back, the too famous lighting in the candle, the blows of the Sarabande d’Handel, the eighteenth-eighty voice of Michael Horden, have come to the face like so many aesthetic transes embalming a world devoted to extinction. The spectral beauty of this 1975 film is precisely in this way of making space a tomb where beings and things would be kept alive by the omnipotence of staging. Stanley Kubrick looks at the arrival Barry (Ryan O’Neal) getting lost in the bowels of a sad life. What to say? We turn off the candles and we are silent.
Watch Barry Lyndon on Sunday at 9 p.m. on Arte
