What are we watching this weekend? An astonishing biopic, Daniel Auteuil in a dress, the enigma David Lynch…

Cinema, streaming, VOD, TV… Find advice from the editorial staff every Friday.

The film in theaters: Better Man by Michael Gracey

Here’s one we weren’t expecting. Robbie Williams’ well-established biopic, produced by himself, takes on an immediately explosive dimension as soon as we discover that the person concerned is played on screen by a digital monkey. Just imagine: Andy Serkis’ Caesar becomes a pop superstar, in jogging pants and on amphetamines, staged as a maddeningly energetic musical by Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman)… OK, it’s a bit exhausting, a bit volatile, totally expected (voice-over: “this is my real story…“, etc), but the fun of the film outweighs everything. And we bet that you will definitely put all Robbie back on Spotify as soon as the end credits roll.

What’s new at the cinema this week

The series: The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Inspired by the real life of Lali Sokolov, this major historical drama series recounts the survival of this Slovak deportee in a death camp… where he ends up finding love. Beyond the romantic tragedy, the series is especially valuable for the frightening portrayal of the camp. The reconstruction is precise, but above all it is very lively. Abandoning the documentary aspect, it fully embraces its prison series side, to better anchor the story, and tell the daily life of prisoners. The untimely assassinations, the summary executions, the cruelty of the Nazi guards, the struggle to survive certain death, which lurks in every corner of the barracks. A work not to be forgotten.

Watch The Tattooist of Auschwitz on M6+

The film on TV: The Batman by Matt Reeves

Riddle worthy of the Riddler: Between now and the sequel’s release in October 2027, how many times can you rewatch The Batman (2h56)? You can start this Sunday evening on TF1. OK, there are lengths and scenes that are frankly unnecessary, but frankly, the vision of dark knight by Matt Reeves is pretty damn awesome. The director was able to take full advantage of the three hours of film and give a unique vision of the vigilante of Gotham – especially of Gotham, in fact, as the city here takes on a dimension as colossal as it is real. Even on the small screen.

Watch The Batman on TF1 Sunday at 9:10 p.m.

The film on VOD: The Wire by Daniel Auteuil

Do not trust its air of a bourgeois, post-Simenon thriller: The Wire is an excellent trial film, very well written, very well directed, and above all very well played by the duo Daniel Auteuil/Grégory Gadebois. A question of incarnation works precisely The Wirewhich starts from a sordid feminicide to question masculinity, true crime contemporary and the judicial scene until a final twist which will inevitably shake you.

Watch Le Fil on VOD on Première Max

The classic: Mulholland Drive by David Lynch

It is both a monument and a mausoleum. The film which launches a 21st century with multiple ramifications while sucking in a Hollywood mythology which is nothing more than a ghost. While some still seek to rationalize the object (“What are these dwarves under the door?“), as if a work must necessarily have instructions for use, we will say that Mulholland Drive is both the ultimate film noir (the city and life in mental labyrinths with no way out) and the most beautiful homage to the Wizard of Oz that one can make. Betty is Dorothy. We can also paraphrase Bashung: “I caused so many misunderstandings to dance, miles of rosy life…” In short, if you’ve never climbed into the limousine that winds through the heights of LA, now is the time.

Watch Mulholland streaming on Arte.TV

The documentary: David Lynch, an enigma in Hollywood

What could be better than an investigation to try to unravel the mysteries of David Lynch’s artistic universe? It’s the good idea of ​​Stéphane Guez, who, obsessed by the riddles ofEraserhead, Mulholland Drive Or Twin Peaksmet his closest collaborators (Kyle Maclachlan, Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini…), and even his ex-wives, to try to find the keys to Lynchian art. It is necessarily a mission: impossible, the person concerned having never stopped refuse to provide explanations on his films, painting series, but it is an excellent excuse to question the power of fascination that all these images and sounds were able to exert on certain spectators.

Watch David Lynch, an enigma in Hollywood streaming on Arte.TV