Lost at the multiplex, haggard at the bookstore, disoriented in front of streaming platforms… You don’t know what to see, read, listen to, do this weekend? The Culture team gives you some advice.
Movie theater
‘Anora’ plays on sensitive escort
A false fairy tale turning into an action comedy, the Palme d’Or-winning feature film films the meeting between a stripper determined to escape her condition and the spoiled son of a Russian oligarch, whose family disapproves of the union. In theaters.
Theater
“The English Lover”, Sandrine Bonnaire kills the game
The actress returns to the theater in a play by Marguerite Duras based on a news story where she wonderfully embodies a woman who searches with her interrogator for the motives of an assassination she committed. At the Théâtre de l’Atelier in Paris (75018) until December 31, then on tour.
Movie theater
“Flow”, getting better and better
In a world without humans and overwhelmed by climatic disasters, Gints Zilbaldodis takes us on a collective and fabulous adventure at the height of beasts. In theaters.
Series
“Cult”, a mini-series behind the scenes of “Loft Story”
On Amazon Prime, the production by Matthieu Rumani and Nicolas Slomka looks back at the origins of the first French reality TV in 2001, prefiguring a new age of entertainment.
Photography
A fashion show
Exploring the paradoxes of nature, a fascinating exhibition highlights, in Paris, the evolution of photographic techniques and artists’ views on the plant world. “Science/Fiction. A non-history of plants”, at the European House of Photography (75004) until January 19.
Movie theater
“Totem”, Sun in stage
Through the eyes of a little girl, Mexican Lila Avilés gently looks at the failings of a whimsical family whose turmoil hides a tragedy to come. In theaters.
Theater
“Bird” by Anna Nozière, questions of life and death from a child’s perspective
The play addresses with finesse and humor the disappearance of loved ones and the relationship we have (if little) with them. Until November 3 at the Paris-Villette Theater, then November 15 and 16 at the Claude Debussy theater in Maisons-Alfort (94), November 20 and 21 at the Jean-François Voguet theater in Fontenay-sous-Bois, from November 28 to November 30 at the Théâtre du Fil de l’eau in Pantin, December 10 and 11 at the Jean-Vilar theater in Vitry-sur-Seine, then in 2025 in Verdun, Angers, Nanterre, Sartrouville, Lorient, Marseille, etc.
Photography
“The Inhabitants” by Raymond Meeks, an exhibition that leaves you speechless
At the Cartier-Bresson Foundation, the American photographer documents the clandestine wandering of asylum seekers, whose tracks he followed between the Spanish border and the Calais region. Until January 5, 2025.
Musique
The Cure des miracles
Its first album in sixteen years marks the return to grace and melancholy of the English group. Released November 1st.
Series
“Hellbound” season 2, entrain d’enfer
A mixture of karmic cycle and atonement in line with Korea where Buddhism and Christianity are the most popular religions. Available on Netflix.
