What are we watching this weekend? An unemployed killer, the legend Bruce Lee, the greatest Sergio Leone…

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

The film in theaters: Disclosure Day by Steven Spielberg

Of course, Spielberg returns here to his first love (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ET…), but it is also worth remembering that the almost 80-year-old filmmaker comes from a generation that began making films in a tense and totally paranoid 70’s America. We thus find Alan J. Pakula (Because of an assassination…) or de Palma (Blow out…) in the early stages of this DD with the torments of a whistleblower ready to reveal to the world a secret which was intended to be as big as beef. The beast is hunted by men in black. And then, all it takes is a little bird for the film to turn into a fantastic tale as beautiful and naive as our societies are cynical and depressed. A re-enchantment that summons all of Spielberg’s cinema into the assumed setting of a trompe-l’oeil house. Spielberg, the fable man. A little conspiratorial too. “We’ve been lying about aliens for decades!” he basically repeats in interviews. However, the real vertigo does not belong this week to Dupieux but to Spielberg.

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The film streaming: A family of bastards by Mourad Winter

At Momo, a small harbor in the heart of Paname, a brother inherits a not very clean business, after their father was shot dead in cold blood one evening when it was closing. The next day, Maurice, a provincial techno teacher, discovers that Momo was his father and plunges with jubilation into his world of schemes, debts and schemes. Between comedy and thriller, Mourad Winter’s new film (L’Amour, c’est surcoté) sometimes hesitates on the tone, but stands out above all thanks to Benjamin Tranié, an irresistible thug with excessive swag, surrounded by Hakim Jemili and Laura Felpin. A joyful chaos where the charm of the trio prevails over the weaknesses of the scenario.

Watch A Family of Bastards streaming on Prime Video

The series: Alice and Steve

When a mother discovers that her best friend has fallen in love with her daughter, things escalate! Alice and Steve immediately establishes itself as a brilliant, provocative British comedy that twists the rom-com to confront it with the taboo: a forbidden, uncomfortable, but strangely credible relationship. Alice explodes, Steve assumes responsibility, and the series triggers a delicious chain reaction where Nicola Walker’s fury sparks. In six episodes, this impossible romance bitingly questions our certainties about love and age. A gem of a British massacre game, which won everything at CanneSéries this year.

Watch Alice and Steve streaming on Disney+

No other choice from Park Chan-wook

Catch-up session for Park Chan-wook’s latest film, which Première loves but which did not spark as much passion as hoped when it was released in theaters last February. It must be recognized that the somewhat stuffy side of the film can be confusing at first, but hang in there, you won’t regret it: this adaptation of Donald Westlake’s Cleaver – the story of an unemployed executive who decides to kill one by one the competitors who threaten his job search – can be enjoyed as a virtuoso black comedy, full of ideas and energy, superbly balancing pathos and cartoons, buffoonery and suspense. Cinema that offers a sharp political vision without ever forgetting the pleasure of the viewer. A great film, definitely.

Watch No Other Choice on VOD on Première Max

The documentary: Operation Dragon, the Bruce Lee revolution by Marc Ball

Tragically passing away in 1973, Bruce Lee constitutes one of the greatest what ifs of action cinema. He had finally broken the glass ceiling and established himself in Hollywood when he died, at just 32 years old. It is this fight against clichés and racism that this fascinating documentary tells, narrated by Aïssa Maïga, in which the biographer of the kung fu star or the rappers of IAM intervene. It’s all there. His turbulent childhood in Hong Kong, his American debut in the series The Green Hornet, his ultra symbolic duel against Chuck Norris in The Fury of the Dragon. Without forgetting the immense imprint he left on the practice of martial arts, fighting films and pop culture. The portrait of a true legend like no other.

Watch Operation Dragon, the Bruce Lee revolution on Arte.TV

The classic: Once Upon a Time in America by Sergio Leone (1984)

It was several times. After The West, The Revolution and before Hollywood, there was America, the most beautiful journey of all. The most melancholy too. A (dirty) guy, Noodles (De Niro), remembers in opium vapors the film of his life as a gangster, past and future: the fantastic 1920s, the twilight of Prohibition a decade later and a present sixties. Time never stops its flight, at most it constantly reinvents itself. On the walls of memory, insidious violence contaminates feelings. De Niro, facing James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern and Jennifer Connelly, watches his big world collapse. Leone’s America was like his West or his Revolution, desperate.

Watch Once Upon a Time in America streaming on Arte.TV