What are we watching this weekend? A generational gem, Nicolas Cage in black and white, Romy Schneider vs Michel Piccoli…

Cinema, streaming, VOD, TV… Find the Première selection every Friday.

The film in theaters: Arms-le-corps by Marie-Elsa Sgualdo

In 1943, a Swiss teenager of modest origins was about to obtain a scholarship for her nursing studies. But tragic reality catches up with her. A rape committed by a journalist and an unborn baby that the latter obviously does not want to recognize. Emma is 15 years old and suddenly her future is shattered. For her first feature, Marie-Elsa Sgualdo takes hold of this teenager and refuses to make her a victim. There is something of the Rosetta of the Dardennes in this wonderfully written character who will confront without looking down the patriarchy at work, constantly returning her to her status as a penniless unmarried mother. A great feminist and romantic film, carried by a dazzling actress: Lila Gueneau.

What’s new at the cinema this week

The series: Spider-Noir

Without doubt the most atypical Marvel adaptation of recent years. Carried by a Nicolas Cage in total jubilation, the series transforms the famous weaver into a disillusioned old private detective wandering in a New York plunged into the Great Depression. It’s impossible not to think of the great classics of Hollywood film noir: the shadow of Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon looms over every shot. Conceived as a huge homage to the thrillers of the 30s and 40s, the series focuses above all on its atmosphere. With its hyper-stylized black and white (it is also available in color), Spider-Noir benefits from a sublime aesthetic. The whole thing sometimes borders on caricature, pushing all the codes of the genre to the extreme, but fully embraces this stylistic exercise. A retro, strange and refreshing proposition in the ultra-calibrated landscape of Marvel productions.

Watch Spider-Noir streaming on Prime Video

Streaming movie: How to Have Sex by Molly Manning Walker

To celebrate the end of classes, three English high school girls fly to Crete: sun, alcohol, endless nights and boys galore. Molly Manning’s film Walker first captures this expected euphoria, between neon lights and bodies that attract each other. Then comes the shift and with it a lucid look at consent and its gray areas. The camera focuses on Mia McKenna-Bruce, disturbing, whose face becomes the mirror of a youth lost between desire, social pressure and the quest for freedom. Very strong.

Watch How to Have Sex streaming on france.tv

The film on VOD: Promised the Sky by Erige Sehiri

Multi-award winning from Angoulême to Marrakech, the second fiction feature film by Erige Sehiri (Under the Figs) takes us to Tunis where an Ivorian pastor and former journalist shelters under her roof a young mother in search of a better future and an engineering school student who carries the hopes of her family back home. In this fiction tinged with documentary which gives pride of place to female characters, the Franco-Tunisian director candidly recounts the difficulty of finding one’s place in a country that is not one’s own, despite a racism that knows neither borders nor latitude, even within the African continent. A relevant and original look at the issue of migrants and exile.

Watch Promised the Sky on VOD on Première Max

The video game: 007 First Light

While Denis Villeneuve is working on the James Bond reboot, the IO Interactive studio intends to dust off the myth on our consoles and PC. Forget the completely crazy reviews from our colleagues (“The best James Bond game of all time!”): 007 First Light is a strange object, at the crossroads between infiltration and gunfights. It’s not forbidden to be completely bored during the interminable prologue/tutorial and MI6 corridor scenes – with objectives like: “Go see Moneypenny”, obviously located four offices away. And despite the gadgets, the atmosphere of the films is almost non-existent. However, let’s recognize some truly enjoyable sequences when the game fully accepts being a new iteration of Hitman, developed by the same studio. But if you’re going in hoping to get your Bond fix, you’re not sure you’ve come to the right place.

The classic: Max and the scrap metal workers by Claude Sautet

After Les Choses de la vie (1970), Claude Sautet immediately reformed the Romy Schneider – Michel Piccoli couple for his Ferrailleurs (1971) and returned to his original love for thrillers. The filmmaker above all creates a form of self-portrait in negative through the trajectory of Max, a solitary man steeped in contradictions, ready to lead a team into his fall. The meeting of Max (Piccoli) and Lily (Schneider) will re-enchant an existence which nevertheless seemed condemned to indescribable melancholy. Max is certainly a complete bastard, he is also a man in love, wounded, split from the inside. Max and the scrap dealers, as Vincent, François, Paul and the others (1974) will soon be, can also be seen as a sociological study of a Pompidolian France in the midst of change. The gang of scrap dealers is the last vestige of a world soon to be buried under layers of concrete where craftsmanship will be replaced by mechanization, solidarity by individualism… This beautiful, sad film oozes death from everywhere.

Watch Max et les ferrailleurs Friday evening on France 5 and the next day in streaming on France.TV