Prime Video, Netflix, Canal+… Our streaming suggestions for this weekend

Like every week, here are some suggestions to discover on the different streaming platforms. This weekend, we invite you to travel in time. You will explore the late 1950s with Mrs Maisel on Prime Video, 18th century Britain with the Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick, and that of the 19th century in the company of the magicians of Prestigeby Christopher Nolan.

Mrs. Maisel, fabulous woman on Prime Video

Do you like to laugh? So look The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. It’s that simple ! Created in 2017 by Amy Sherman-Palladino, the pen behind Gilmore Girls, Mrs. Maisel, fabulous woman (in VF) is a series that sweeps at 200 an hour on subjects as diverse as sexism in the artistic world, social pressure in a practicing Jewish family or romantic relationships in late 1950s New York. The camera follows Myriam Maisel, a very typical housewife, who, after a painful breakup, finds herself on the stage of a coffee shop improvising an impeccable stand-up show. She then becomes an icon of feminine humor at a time when stepping out of her role as mother was seen as an affront to patriarchy and the moral order. Rich in four seasons (with a fifth and final one which should arrive in a few months), Marvelous Mrs Maisel is a series to see, if only for the offbeat look it takes on our society and our prejudices.

Barry Lyndon on Canal+

When we talk about the career of Stanley Kubrick, we often mention shining, Clockwork Orange Where 2001, a space odyssey. But the filmmaker’s ultimate masterpiece may not involve a psychopathic father, drugs ultra-violent or drifting astronaut. In Barry Lyndon, we rather follow the rise and fall of a young Irishman of the 18th century. At first naive or even candid, he will harden over his encounters and his more or less voluntary participation in various armed conflicts, to become an ambitious unscrupulous ready to do anything for a title of nobility. All the mastery of Kubrick radiates this film. The script is exciting, boosted by an effective writing that leaves a lot of room for the emotions of the characters, without having to cover everything with endless dialogues. The voice-over reinforces the romantic aspect of the whole by commenting mischievously on the adventures of Redmond Barry. Classical period music sublimates the images. But it is of course in the staging and the photography that the film sparkles with a thousand lights, with its frames worthy of the great masters of painting, its virtuoso camera movements and its perfectly controlled lighting — certain scenes were filmed at the candle with optics designed by NASA. In short, a gem, a real one.

Prestige on Netflix

Here again, Prestige is not necessarily the most commented film of Christopher Nolan. Filmed between the first two parts of the saga of Dark Knight, the fifth film by the English filmmaker tells the rivalry between two magicians in the 19th century, played here by Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman. Engaged in a race for the best lap, the two men will resort to less and less orthodox methods, going so far as to jeopardize their own interests to dazzle their dumbfounded spectators ever more. Behind its apparent complexity, Prestige is above all a very beautiful exercise in writing, more clever than complicated. Nolan uses his subject, prestidigitation, to disguise his feature film and lead his audience on the wrong track, but in the end, if we take each element into account, the whole thing is crystal clear. Rock. It is also an opportunity to see David Bowie shine in a role commensurate with his genius, the mysterious Nikola Tesla.