What are we watching this weekend? The return of Benoit Blanc, the ultimate biopic, the mad scientist of Hollywood…

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In 2020, Constance Debré published Love me Tendera book where she candidly recounted her fight to regain custody of her son that her ex-husband had removed when she revealed to him…. that she was now having adventures with women! Anna Cazenave Cambet (Gold for dogs) seizes this intimate story to create a portrait of a woman as fascinating as it is complex because she is ordered not to react to the attacks of which she is the victim under penalty of being cataloged as hysterical and seeing her chances of regaining this famous guard further diminish. And Vicky Krieps embodies this bubbling and hampered interiority with insane mastery.

What’s new at the cinema this week

The film in streaming: Wake Up Dead Man by Rian Johnson

The Netflix prestige film season continues. After A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow) and Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro), the platform unveils the new investigation by dandy Benoit Blanc. Daniel Craig, more chic and suave than ever, must this time solve a murder committed in a church. The opportunity for Rian Johnson to propel his hero into a delectable neo-gothic atmosphere, where political satire mixes with the mechanics of whodunit. Wake Up Dead Man takes on buddy movie twists as a bonus, helped by the alchemy of the duo formed by Josh O’Connor (fabulous as an opinionated religious man who more spontaneously throws punches than he turns the other cheek) and Craig.

Watch Wake Up Dead Man: A Tale of Daggers Out on Netflix

The series: The Seasons

Nicolas Maury signs a romantic and iodized series on the first emotions of Camille, 15 years old, in Sables-d’Olonne in 1991. Her love triangle with Alexandre and Martin marks her entire life and spans the ages. Over 30 years and four seasons, the ex-actor of Ten percent films emotions and torments as closely as possible, and seduces with its poetry, its inspired casting and a lot of great ideas. A touching evocation of love that spans time.

Watch The Seasons on Arte.TV

The classic: Amadeus by Milos Forman

Since nothing is true, everything is permitted! The directors of biopics who are too stuck to their files under the gaze of intrusive rights holders when it is not the star portrayed who interferes in the process, can turn to this Amadeus. Apocryphal in more than one way, the scenario is inspired by a play which itself was based on Pushkin. He fantasizes a feverish and murderous rivalry between the genius of Mozart and the talent of Salieri. The great Austrian composer presents himself to us in the guise of an immature imp with a thunderous laugh trapped by his inspiration, his era and a hostile environment. The Czech Milos Forman who had imposed himself on the world with One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nestonce again paints the portrait of a man driven mad by an omnipotent power. And if the images tire you, close your eyes, the music is not bad.

Watch Amadeus Friday evening on France 5 and the next day on France.TV

Nicolas Cage, the mad scientist of Hollywood by Nicolas Maupied

“ Actor of psychotic disorder », Nicolas Coppola became Cage to get rid of a too heavy surname and therefore put himself in… a cage! This documentary explores in several chapters the diagonal of the madman of an actor who brings to the surface of his performance all the freaks of cinema: from Bela Lugosi to Marlon Brando, from Lon Chaney to Jerry Lewis via Klaus Kinski or Jack Nicholson. In a sequence that intelligently compiles all the times Cage finds himself facing a mirror on screen, this fascinating portrait undertakes a journey through his own psyche. Psyche who wants to be broken down (which she is!) but would be nothing without great lucidity (he’s the one who speaks best about his work) Brilliant actor, mutt, meme, underground, mainstream, has-been, in, sensitive, distant… The cage is far too big to imprison him completely.

Look Nicolas cage, the mad scientist of Hollywood on Arte.TV

The short film: Big Boys Don’t Cry by Arnaud Delmarle

Hicham returns to his village, near Marseille, after three years in the army. It’s summer, he’s meeting up with his group of friends. One of them is getting married soon and his bachelor party is being prepared. But behind the virile atmosphere, other emotions awaken, notably in his friend Lucas. After touring the festivals and winning a prize at Clermont-Ferrand, this queer short film by Arnaud Delmarle (who was assistant director on I will always see your faces by Jeanne Herry), was selected in the official selection of the 2026 Césars, part of which can be viewed free of charge on the France Télévisions website. A touching and restrained little naturalistic film, like the very accurate interpretations of Rod Paradot and Wyssem Romdhane.

Watch Big Boys Don’t Cry on France.TV