What are we watching this weekend? The best Marvel series, a visionary Cuaron, a moving Bastien Bouillon…

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

The film in theaters: Hamnet by Chloe Zhao

After the Marvel interlude with Eternals, Chloe Zhao returns to this sensory cinema which has constituted her DNA since her first feature, The Songs My Brothers Taught Me, with this variation on the creation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, adapted from the novel by Maggie O’Farrell. A film as beautiful as it is powerful about mourning, carried by a dazzling Jessie Buckley in the role of the writer’s wife, long invisible, whom this film propels into the light. Look no further for the favorite for the next Oscar for best actress!

What’s new at the cinema this week

The series: Wonder Man

A Marvel series that doesn’t look like a Marvel series? Here is the big idea of ​​this buddy movie behind the scenes of Hollywood, which brings back Ben Kingsley in the shoes of Trevor Slattery. Who is that? But yes, remember: the failed actor encountered in Iron Man 3, junk Mandarin who offered the film a hilarious twist. Here he forms an ill-matched duo with an actor who is struggling because he is too cerebral (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), and incidentally endowed with powers which are activated under anger. A detail, because Wonder Man is above all a very meta comedy about Los Angeles, which quotes Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood and walks on the grounds of The Studio. Unexpected and very thrilling.

Watch Wonder Man on Disney Plus

The film on TV: Misanthrope by Damian Szifron

First free-to-air TV broadcast for Misanthrope, one of the best thrillers of recent years. Directed by the energetic Argentinian Damian Szifron (The New Savages), the film tells the story of the hunt by a young cop (Shailene Woodley) of a mad sniper, with an unpredictable modus operandi. A bit of Silence of the Lambs, a pinch of Seven, or codes inherited from the cinema of the 90s, but brought up to date, readapted to contemporary anxieties, by a filmmaker who is not only virtuoso, but also very human and sensitive. Friendly advice: don’t miss the unforgettable intro scene.

Watch Misanthrope Sunday evening on TF1

The film on VOD: Left handed girl by Shih Ching Tsou

It was one of the gems of the last Cannes Critics’ Week which was particularly rich in this area (Useful Ghost, Kika, Proofs of Love…) The first solo feature film by Shih Ching Tsou, co-written by Sean Baker (Anora) with whom she has collaborated for over 20 years. We follow a mother and her two daughters – one of whom is still a child – returning to live in the bustling daily life of Tapei and struggling with financial difficulties ready to swallow them up at any moment. The filmmaker masterfully orchestrates their frantic race against time to get out, held back by the weight of Taiwanese patriarchal traditions. The speed of his staging perfectly matches the quality of his writing, particularly his management of the remarkably orchestrated twists and turns. A filmmaker to follow closely.

Watch Leff handed girl on VOD on Première Max

The documentary: Mr Nobody against Putin by Pavel Talankin

It is a document as much as a documentary. An extremely rare testimony that we owe to the Nobody who gives it its title: Pavel Talankin, teacher and videographer in the Russian town of Karabash. This Mr Nobody against Putin is his wartime diary, the one that Russia declared to Ukraine with its large-scale invasion. With his camera, Talankin shows head-on the propaganda that has since swept through his establishment and the danger of refusing to comply with it. There is something astonishing about what we see on screen, reinforced by the tone full of humor and self-deprecation. But also by the courage of a man who chose to speak when everything pushes you to silence.

Watch Mr Nobody against Putin streaming on Arte

The short film: Les Tremblements by David Depesseville

Les Tremblements delicately observes the experience of death. Three brothers, Emmanuel, Alexis and Yoann return to their homeland to visit their dying mother. At the hospital, they witness his end. A voice-over recounts the events surrounding his death and takes us on a journey into Emmanuel’s head, torn between grief and the memory of his mother. Alexis (Bastien Bouillon), suffering from Parkinson’s disease, is prey to intense attacks of tremors. Selected for the 2026 Césars, this short film by David Depesseville offers a sensitive look at the experience of losing a loved one.

Watch The Tremors streaming on Arte

The classic: The Sons of Man by Alfonso Cuarón

In 2006, Alfonso Cuarón redefined the contours of the auteur blockbuster with The Sons of Man, which takes place in a future where the birth rate has dropped to zero. When a woman miraculously becomes pregnant – an event that has not happened in almost two decades – a man (Clive Owen) is charged with protecting her from the madness of the world… Brutal, angry, premonitory and shocking: a huge anticipation film and an instant classic containing the most impressive sequence shots in modern cinema. A demonstration of force that never seems like one, always serving the story and the characters. Twenty years already separate us from its release. Not a wrinkle but a big wrinkle.

Watch The Sons of Man Sunday evening on Arte (and streaming on Arte.TV)