What are we watching this weekend? Apocalyptic Ralph Fiennes, a Cannes shock, a great Michael Mann…

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

The film in theaters: 28 years later: The Temple of the Dead by Nia DaCosta

Nia DaCosta replaces Danny Boyle on this new part, and some feared the worst. The director of Candyman and The Marvels (but also of Hedda) defies the evil tongues. Better still, it completely transcends the zombie saga by injecting it with darkness and staggering ambition. A complete blasting, a reinvention of the myth. The infected are nothing more than a decoration, and the story refocuses on humanity’s reaction to the moral void. A setting to even better exploit the figure of Doctor Kelson, masterfully played by Ralph Fiennes. The apocalypse has rarely been filmed so well, and we want more. That’s good, Alex Garland and Danny Boyle are in the middle of writing the third opus…

What’s new at the cinema this week

The series: The Seven Dials

A very British murder mystery. A social prank turns into a tragedy during a reception in a sumptuous country house, in the heart of England in the 1920s. To unravel what looks like a disguised murder, an unexpected investigator enters the scene: Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent, the sparkling heroine imagined by Agatha Christie in The Secret of the Seven Dials. Without a radical rereading of the original work, this adaptation provides pleasant entertainment, calibrated for the codes of the modern soap opera. The story progresses smoothly, to the rhythm of its bucolic panoramas and Mia McKenna-Bruce’s mischievous performance. A little pleasure of 3 episodes, which prefers lightness to thrill.

Watch The Seven Dials on Netflix

The streaming film: Love is overrated by Mourad Winter

After great success in bookstores, L’Amour c’est surcoté made the transition to cinema last year. Excellent surprise: the first film by the author of the book, Mourad Winter, manages to mix romantic comedy, emotion, surgical precision of dialogue and twisting valves. The story of love at first sight between the love loser Anis (Hakim Jemili) and Madeleine (Laura Felpin), a sunny young woman who will help him mourn the loss of his best friend. A cinematic couple so obvious that you wonder why no one had thought of it before.

Watch L’Amour c’est surcoté streaming on MyCanal

The film on VOD: Alpha by Julia Ducournau

Left empty-handed at Cannes, where it was coldly received by critics, Alpha did not convince the public either, with barely more than 100,000 admissions in theaters. At Première, however, we don’t give up. Julia Ducournau’s drama is one of the best films of 2025 (see our top), and its visions still haunt us. A work even more radical than Grave et Titane, approaching with dark poetry the AIDS and heroin years, from which we do not emerge unscathed. A cinema proposition that doesn’t feel good at all, but which deserves to be given an evening.

Watch Alpha on VOD on Première Max

The documentary: A young man from a good family by Sébastien Lifshitz

After The Invisibles or Sensitive Boys, Sébastien Lifshitz masterfully continues his exploration of the resistance of a not-so-distant era when homosexuality was still criminalized. And once again he wonderfully brings together the big and the small story through the confidences of Claude Loir, an ordinary hero with a thousand lives, from his childhood in Ariège in his modest family to his career as a porn actor in the 70s, including his active frequentation of gay cruising spots where, as he explains, “the desire to get laid was stronger than fear”. Lifshitz proves to be as brilliant in the art of collecting his words as he is of bringing them to life by mixing extracts from his films and period archives. With a sensitivity that regularly brings tears to your eyes.

Watch A young man from a good family on Arte.TV

The short film: The Last Snows Sarah Henochsber

The Last Snows tells the story of family breakdown from the point of view of a child: Sacha, 10 years old. Actress Sarah Henochsberg gets behind the camera with this very personal first short film set against a backdrop of mountains and breakups. Marie and Simon, just separated, decide to go skiing with their two daughters. The week progresses, punctuated by shouting matches, while Sacha, a stranger to the events, wanders through this atypical family setting, between new melancholy and past joy. A lovely contemplative, poetic and touching film, selected for the 2026 Césars.

Watch The Last Snows streaming on MyCanal (available unencrypted)

The Last of the Mohicans by Michael Mann (1992)

At the beginning of the 90s, Michael Mann, a contemporary filmmaker, adapted the historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The plot plunges us into a still wild America which whets the appetite of different peoples including the French led by General Montcalm (Patrice Chéreau then in full preparation for his Queen Margot). It is interesting to see the dramatic and political logic which links this 18th century fresco with the following film by its director, Heat, an equally lucid exploration of an ultra-violent world prey to manipulation. Daniel Day Lewis as Mohican has crazy magnetic power. As for Dante Spinoti’s photo, while refusing the expectations of naturalist painting, it sublimates the purity of a space soiled by the hands of men.

Watch The Last of the Mohicans this Friday evening on France 5 and the next day in streaming on France.TV