What are we watching this weekend? A Heat thriller, Dwayne Johnson in the ring, a Japanese gem…

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The film in theaters: Stronger Than Me by Kirk Jones

No one does it as well as the British at making this kind of feel-good movie that deals with a serious subject while putting an irrepressible smile on your lips. In the great tradition of The Full Monty, Stronger than Me portrays John Davidson, a Scotsman suffering from Tourette syndrome, who alerted his compatriots to this then poorly identified neurological disorder in the 1990s. It’s the story of an average guy for whom the most banal and pleasant activities in life – playing football or having a drink at the pub – all turn into a station of the cross, a succession of tragi-comic mini-epics. So there will be laughter and tears here, but also hits from Oasis and New Order on the soundtrack, a monumental Peter Mullan as a social worker with a heart of gold, and a brilliant actor, Robert Aramayo, revealed in the series The Rings of Power, so good that he beat Timothée Chalamet at the last Bafta.

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The streaming film: Crime 101 by Bart Layton

Los Angeles, a cold-blooded robber, a stubborn cop, and the Pacific Ocean behind the windows like the promise of another world, of somewhere else perhaps quite unattainable… We are not in Heat, but in Crime 101, by Bart Layton, a thriller released in February in US theaters and released this week in France on Prime. The screenplay is adapted from a short story by the master of the noir novel Don Winslow, the cast is massive (Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Halle Berry, Barry Keoghan, Nick Nolte, Monica Barbaro, Jennifer Jason Leigh, yes yes, all that…), and Bart Layton, obviously, really likes the cinema of Michael Mann. By dint of overly deferential quotes (until the choice of the Hacker actor as the lead), this fixation ends up turning against the film, but nonetheless: the plot is rather good, documented, it is very elegantly shot and, as in any self-respecting Angeleno thriller, LA here is not a backdrop, but a character in its own right. Clichés, yes, but which will not give you a bad evening. Then, after all, we have to kill time while waiting for Heat 2, right?

Watch Crime 101 streaming on Prime Video

The series: A very bad feeling

Rachel is getting married in five days but can’t get it out of her head that something terrible is going to happen. The ceremony is to take place at her in-laws’ luxurious vacation home, secluded in a snowy forest. This gloomy place and strange coincidences will only increase Rachel’s paranoia… An excellent surprise in this series with its (really) oppressive atmosphere, which combines false leads and real moments of fright. A wicked and playful warning on the sacred bonds of marriage, carried by a bomb of charisma, Camila Morrone (Daisy Jones and The Six and season 2 of The Night Manager), absolutely hypnotic. After a few episodes, the puzzle becomes clearer, but that doesn’t stop A Very Bad Feeling from ending in fireworks.

Watch A Very Bad Feeling streaming on Netflix

The film on TV: Jurassic World Renaissance by Gareth Edwards

The idea of ​​a “renaissance” in Hollywood is more than a program, an economic issue. Because by pulling on the tightrope of the sagas the thing exhausts itself to a more or less slow death. But you never die in LA, you are reborn. So here are the dinosaurs in time 2 (or 3 or even 4…) of their cinematic history. Spielberg was far away, we see him again in retrospect. At the helm, Gareth Edwards (The Creator, Rogue One…) who, while being soluble in the laws of the market, breathes life into the middle of a scorched earth. Scarlett Johansson is going on an expedition here to collect DNA from dinos supposed to treat Americans who are stuffed with junk food (and junk films) and therefore prone to heart attacks (and yeah!). The fairly linear adventure, very nineties (Predator, Indiana Jones, etc.), gives hope to a saga that really needed it… The very low-profile special effects opt for a vegan diet… A (big) and pleasant surprise!

Watch Jurassic World Renaissance Sunday evening on Canal Plus

The film on VOD: Smashing Machine by Benny Safdie

Josh (Marty Supreme) covered his brother Benny (Smashing Machine). However, it was the latter who drew the first while parading at the Mostra (Silver Lion for best director). As with twin brothers (which they are not, however), we cannot help comparing them, especially after their “separation”. Both talk about sport, are inspired by a true story and reflect the flaws of characters who are prisoners of themselves. Dwayne Johnson, all in MMA muscles (Smashing Machine), apparently crushes the frail table tennis player (Supreme Chalamet). Faced with “Rock”, the documentary-style hand-held camera staging does not seek to jostle (the exact opposite of Marty). Benny is definitely the soft one of the duo. Too much perhaps. His Machine struggles to fully articulate. Except that a breath springs from the fragile juggernaut in search of appeasement (Dwayne Johnson saw himself as an Oscar winner, which he was not, unlike Chalamet), where Timothée spends his time claiming his presence. Hot and cold. Here are two fraternal twins looking at each other in the mirror. One wouldn’t work without the other. And vice versa.

Watch Smashing Machine on VOD on Première Max

The short film: Green Light by Béranger Barry

Two childhood friends spend the evening in front of a traffic light that the boy hacked with his phone. Sitting on their camping chairs, they sip sodas while playing the intimate questions game. He feels something else for her, but is it mutual? This cute little short film (10 mins) directed by La CinéFabrique students (Béranger Barry in the direction, Lili Cazals and Leon Exbrayat in the roles of Hazel & Ben) questions with humor and tenderness the evolution of male/female relationships. “I feel clumsy like a salmon in sushi,” Ben says in his statement song.

Watch Green Light streaming on Arte

The classic: Mademoiselle Ogin by Kinuyo Tanaka (1962)

The only female filmmaker (or almost) in the Japanese industry of the golden age, Kinuyo Tanaka made six films between 1953 and 1962 (all available free on Arte.tv!). She who was first a great actress (seen in Ozu and Mizoguchi) filmed tragedies of astonishing beauty like no other. If her first films show an emancipated and cultivated youth, she will then abandon the shores of the contemporary to sculpt – in color this time! – historical dramas. Thus, Mademoiselle Ogin, his final opus, set in 16th century Japan, is a flamboyant melodrama on which fragile silhouettes stand out against overwhelming midnight blue twilights. “There are loves that only death allows,” says the heroine. Beings and things here constantly stand on the edge of an abyss that seeks to attract them. Tanaka, whose work as a filmmaker has long remained in the blind spot of history, deserves all the honors.

Watch Mademoiselle Ogin streaming on Arte.TV