What are we watching this weekend? Megan Northam at Daesh, a French Fleabag, a tornado chase

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

The film in theaters: Rabia by Marieke Engelhardt

Inspired by various true stories, this first feature film tells the fate of a young French woman who, leaving with one of her friends to join Daesh in Syria, finds herself locked in a house… of future wives of fighters run by a hand of iron by a sort of local Madame Claude (Lubna Azabal, masterful) who chooses which girl will be offered to which terrorist. A great film about regimentation in the form of a suffocating camera where Megan Northam delivers the most impressive composition of her young career

What's new at the cinema this week

The series: Iris

If you liked the Fleabag by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, you'll love Doria Tiller's Iris. Creator, director and actress of this very funny social and romantic comedy, she gives birth to an improbable clumsy thirty-something in search of meaning. A teacher who is not bothered by conventions, or even empathy or even any need to belong. Iris makes contradiction an art of living and over the course of 6 episodes gradually appears as an existentialist figure who deserves to be known!

Watch Iris on MyCanal

The film on VOD: Twisters by Lee Isaac Chung

Almost 30 years later Twisterthe sequel offers generally the same thing as the original. A little romance, a little science and a lot of SFX. Here, we follow Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones revealed in Normal People), daughter of farmers with a sixth sense for tornadoes, who is trying to recover from a tragedy. One day she comes across Tyler (Glen Powell), a YouTube star cowboy who “tames” storms. While their chemistry works wonderfully, the real pleasure lies in the impressive scenes of destruction and the way director Lee Isaac Chung breathes a cool and relaxed side into his apocalyptic film.

Watch Twisters on VOD on Première Max

The movie on TV: Goliath by Frédéric Tellier

In 2022, the director of The SK1 Affair took up the issue of pesticides in an ensemble film that explored its subject from a multitude of angles: a teacher whose husband is dying because they live near an infected field, a lobbyist who defends a agrochemical giant and a lawyer specializing in environmental law who is trying to get back on track after sinking into alcoholism. His sense of pedagogy perfectly mastered throughout a script (co-written by Simon Moutaïrou, recent director of Neither chains nor masters) based on precision mechanics hit the mark, like the interpretation of the trio Emmanuelle Bercot-Pierre Niney-Gilles Lellouche.

Watch Goliath Sunday evening on France 2

The documentary: Beatles '64

After Get Backhere is a new exploration of the mythology of the Fab Four, through the prism of Beatlemania, which invaded America in the 60's, in the wake of the Kennedy assassination. A work for History, which is based on sequences filmed at the time by Albert and David Maysles, in the privacy of the group. Unique and stunning images, magnificently restored in 4K by Park Road Post in New Zealand, to which are added never-before-seen interviews with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.

Watch Beatles '64 on Disney+

The classic: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce, 1080 Brussels by Chantal Akerman

Who saw the greatest movie of all time? Exit Cold sweats, Citizen Kane Or The rules of the gamethe ranking balanced in 2022 by the very serious review Sight & Sound friends Jeanne Dielman in orbit. 3h18 of a low-key drama around a woman trapped in her little Brussels interior. She peels potatoes and prostitutes herself in the same mental and physical mechanism. “ I wanted to give a cinematic reality to these gestures… », explained the Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, who committed suicide in 2015. Delphine Seyrig, almost alone in the world on screen, is the heroine of this paranoid anti-narrative of which we sense at every second that it could go wrong. Greatest movie of all time? No matter, this status obliges cinephiles and filmmakers to start from this radicalism to move the train of an art which must reinvent itself to endure. Meet at 23 quai du commerce in Brussels.

Watch Jeanne Dielman streaming on Arte.TV on the Arte YouTube channel

The book: Anatomy of a fall, commented scenario

Let's get rid of what's on your mind right away: no, this original script commented by Justine Triet and Arthur Harari does not give any details on the guilt or innocence of Sandra Hüller's character. For that, we will have to wait a few more years… That said, it is an unprecedented access to the brains of the duo (we never know who is writing), where fans and the curious will be able to discover the numerous passages which have not been survived the editing, explained by their authors. All enhanced with on-set photographs, an original drawing by David Lynch (no less) on the cover and international posters for the film. As a bonus, some reproductions of Harari's personal scenario, complete with his drawings and erasures. Suddenly, on a page, this legendary anagram written by hand in capital letters: “ Anatomy of a Tuche “. The writing process obviously wasn't easy every day.

At Gallimard, 25 euros.