What are we watching this weekend? Ryan Gosling on peak, Demi Moore on substance, a cult series…

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In theaters: The Substance by Coralie Fargeat

Demi Moore makes a deal with the devil and gives birth to Margaret Qualley. Here Faust dresses in Prada, treads water to the tune of aerobics or crawls through the corridors of a penthouse with a bird's eye view of a trompe-l'oeil LA. Cannes screenplay prize, the gory object would have deserved the Special Prize for beer placement. Bodies regenerate as much as they degrade, devour themselves as much as they spit themselves out. The French Coralie Fargeat (Revenge) doesn't do lace, goes all the way with his black and colorful ideas. She dynamites from within her own concept which would have us believe in a pamphlet against our degenerate society. No, the show is not really questioned, it is served very hot on the screen. Gobble it, it's The Great Food 3.0. Please leave the place as filthy as you found it.

What's new at the cinema this week

The film in streaming: The Fall Guy by David Leitch

True/false adaptation of The Man Who Fallen (the film vaguely takes up the concept of the stuntman intended to use his abilities outside of a set), The Fall Guy severely failed at the global box office. Do us a favor, catch up this weekend with this very cool action comedy led by the impeccable duo Ryan Gosling/Emily Blunt, and on which the spirit of Shane Black floats. Authentically fun, this muscular investigation into the dull backstage of Hollywood allows for cartoonish excesses like we don't do anymore. Euphoric.

Watch The Fall Guy starting Saturday on MyCanal

The series: Years and Years

What world are we building for tomorrow? You have 6 episodes! Russell T Davies – the man responsible for the return of Doctor Who on TV in 2005 – is behind this fascinating 2019 mini-series, undoubtedly one of the biggest television hits of recent years. Currently available for free online on France.TV (and still on MyCanal), it takes on its full meaning at the time of Donald Trump's re-election. Because Years and Years – edifying cross between Black Mirror And This Is Us – has something of a philosophical and sociological reflection, encouraging citizens to become aware of their reality and to ask themselves what they want to do with the 21st century. Yes, just that!

Watch Years and Years for free streaming on France.TV

The movie on TV: Godzilla x Kong: The New Kingdom by Adam Wingard

We admit it: at the end of Godzilla Minus One at the end of 2023, we looked a little down on Godzilla American of 2024 which looked like its complete opposite, in terms of ambition, aesthetics and quality. And yes, GxK is indeed its opposite – but that does not prevent us from having a monstrous feeling (yes) in front of this astonishing blockbuster where Adam Wingard, aware of making yet another sequel to an indestructible and exhausting franchise, has fun much to feature titanic creatures brought to life with beautiful digital life. Ambition and aesthetics are completely at odds with Minus Onebut the quality is there.

Watch Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Friday at 9 p.m. on Canal Plus

The film on VOD: Plastic guns by Jean-Christophe Meurisse

Can we reasonably make people laugh with the Dupont de Ligonnès affair? Director of the crazy Chiens de Navarre theater troupe, and director of two hilarious comedies – Apnea And Blood Oranges -, Jean-Christophe Meurisse sets his scathing gaze on an ersatz XDDL exiled in Argentina, two Sunday investigators obsessed with him and a pseudo Guy Joao arrested by the police. A hilarious black farce which takes the piss out of a society addicted to news items, incapable of detecting its own share of savagery.

The Classic: Madam of… by Max Ophüls

Anyone who has never seen a Max Ophüls film cannot honestly call themselves a film buff. This peremptory sentence, which we owe to no mad scientist of the seventh art, is nevertheless true. So start with this Madam of… (1953), almost terminal work of the great Max, a German Jew tossed by the war between the US, France and his native land. In his work, the settings, artificial in essence, served as traps to trap his protagonists. Spider-like cinema then. The muse Danielle Darrieux here plays the spendthrift aristos who are forced by a reversal of fortune to sell her jewelry. Jewelry which, passing from hand to hand, will act like a deadly poison. It's beautiful, tragic while having the good taste of being crude. Capital cinema would say the movie-loving mad scientist.

Madame de… is released in cinemas, it is also available in streaming on Ciné+ OCS and on VOD

The video game: Metal Slug Tactics

Historical franchise of run and gun (we run, we shoot the enemies), Metal Slug is reborn in the form of a turn-based tactical game developed by the French from Leikir Studio. Fans ofInto the Breach – from which the title draws a lot of inspiration – should easily find their offspring in this fusion of genres so obvious that we are surprised that no one had thought of it before. Cartoonish but very strategic, Metal Slug Tactics is an excellent surprise that should occupy a good part of your evenings in the weeks to come.

On PC, PS5 and Xbox Series (included in Game Pass).