What are we watching this weekend? Michel Blanc at Blier, the blockbuster of the year, Belmondo as a thief…

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

The tribute to Michel Blanc: Evening wear by Bertrand Blier

France 2 pays tribute this evening to Michel Blanc by broadcasting I find you very beautifulbut at First we rather want to rewatch Tenue Soirée to remember this actor we loved so much. This role, won following the withdrawal of Bernard Giraudeau, marked a turning point in his career, giving him the Best Actor Prize at Cannes in 1986. A black comedy, totally Blierian, where he opposite Miou-Miou and Gérard Depardieu in a cascade of cult scenes as delicious as they are irreverent. A “Damn movie!”, as the poster at the time said.

Watch Evening Wear on VOD on Première Max

Michel Blanc's film commentary: Les Tanzés, Marche à L'ombre, Evening Wear, Grosse Fatigue…

The film in theaters: All We Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia

2024 is definitely a big year for Indian female cinema. After the excellent Santosh by Sandhya Suri and Girls will be girls by Shuchi Talati, here is the second feature by Payal Kapadia (All night without knowing), awarded the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. We follow two nurse friends in their complicated love stories through which the documentary filmmaker paints a relevant portrait of Indian society. All with an enveloping, luminous staging which contrasts intelligently with the violence of the situations encountered.

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The film in streaming: Inner game by Greg Jardin

The day before a wedding, a group of friends meet in the future spouses' huge barracks. We smoke joints and drink a little too much, until an old friend we haven't seen for years shows up with a mysterious suitcase. Inside, there is… We won't say any more, that would be criminal. But go ahead and watch Inner Game (potable translation of It's What's Inside in VO), psychological thriller and extremely pop high concept, which regularly brings to mind the excellent Coherence. A clever, playful film full of good ideas for direction: its little buzz at the last Sundance festival was not stolen.

The series: Rematch

Long before The Queen's Gamethe small world of chess rested on the shoulders of one man: Garry Kasparov. Genius of the 64-square grid, he became an icon of humanity in the heart of the 1990s, when he faced Deep Blue. Man against machine. We are still in the thick of it, in 2024, at the time of artificial intelligence that is shaking the world. In a feverish reconstruction of the era, the series films the matches with passion, even if it does not avoid some Epinal images, drops of sweat on the forehead when moving his queen… Christian Cooke, at the The stunning Soviet accent overflows with charisma in the skin of this passionate and tortured Kasparov.

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The film on VOD: Furiosa by George Miller (2024)

With 948,000 admissions in France, this Mad Max without Mad Max flopped in a big way (Fury Road had totaled more than 2 million) It is therefore time to right this injustice and rush today on this gleaming mechanism. This spin-off coupled with a prequel tells the story of Furiosa's journey. Formerly portrayed by Charlize Theron, here she has the features of the absolutely insane Anya Taylor-Joy as a savage warrior. Where Fury Road was intended to be organic and direct, this Furiosa advance chapters and customized effects. We find this same idea of ​​a scorched earth which has only chaos to offer and this gesture full of panache sent in the face of action cinema. Mythical.

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The movie on TV: Dune: Part Two by Denis Villeneuve

Current face of Bleu de Chanel, face of Bob Dylan in the biopic signed Mangold at Christmas, face of Marty Supreme by Josh Safdie in 2025… If you're not sick of Chalamet all the time, Dune 2 is on TV again this evening. We've given you enough hype with Villeneuve's SF blockbuster, let's just add this today: if one day we make a biopic of Chalamet, it will certainly be the film that will be cited as the one that transformed the face of a promising kid into that of a real movie star.

Watch Dune 2 this Friday at 9:10 p.m. on Canal+ (and streaming on MyCanal)

The classic: The thief by Louis Malle

1967. On the one hand, The samurai of Melville, on the other, The thief of Malle. Two perfect counterparts. Delon, Belmondo; A Stetson, a bowler hat; A specter, a pretty heart… Two shadows in the night moving noiselessly on the screen. Arte.tv offers a Louis Malle cycle and this is too rare Thief constitutes a piece of choice. Dialogued by Jean-Claude Carrière, lit by Henri Decaë, this feature film around the itinerary of a casual thief from the end of the 19th century is for the filmmaker a way of paying off the upper bourgeoisie who saw him born .

“You are not a bourgeois but a thief. A being apart… As such you will remain misunderstood by the mediocre. You are their forbidden face… What do you want, they too seek certainty, they cling to appearances. You go through walls…“, says the abbot (magnificent Julien Guiomar) to the thief. Mass is said.

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