Saoirse Ronan’s new film and a Kristen Bell Netflix series – what to watch this week

MONDAY

La Maison, Apple TV+

High fashion meets high stakes in this realistic behind-the-scenes look at how an iconic fashion house is thrown into scandal and reinvention by a viral video featuring star designer Vincent Ledu (Lambert Wilson), leaving his family’s legendary haute couture house, LEDU, hanging by a thread. Perle Foster (Amira Casar), Vincent’s former muse who is still in his shadow, teams up with visionary next-generation designer Paloma Castel (Zita Hanrot) to save, evolve and renew the century-old Maison LEDU. Taking advantage of Vincent’s demise, Diane Rovel (Carole Bouquet), the ruthless CEO of the powerful Rovel luxury group, launches an offensive to acquire what she sees as her most important prize: Maison LEDU. To achieve her goal, anything is fair game, as this is more than acquiring just another brand — it’s about revenge.

TUESDAY

Black Dog, Sky Cinema Premiere/NOW TV

Two teenage boys from very different London backgrounds embark on a road trip up North together. As they start to open up about their pasts, the boys learn they have far more in common than they first thought. Starring Jamie Flatters, Keenan Munn-Francis, Nicholas Pinnock, and Paul Kaye.

WEDNESDAY

Midnight Family, Apple TV+

Inspired by the award-winning documentary of the same name, Midnight Family follows Marigaby Tamayo, an ambitious and gifted medical student by day, who spends her nights saving lives throughout a sprawling, contrasted and fascinating Mexico City aboard her family’s privately owned ambulance. Along with her father Ramón and her siblings Marcus and Julito, Marigaby serves a population of millions by tackling extreme medical emergencies to make a living.

THURSDAY

Nobody Wants This, Netflix

This comedy centres on the unlikely relationship between an outspoken, agnostic woman, Joanne (Kristen Bell), and an unconventional rabbi, Noah (Adam Brody).

FRIDAY

The Outrun, in cinemas nationwide

Based on the bestselling prize-winning memoir by Amy Liptrot, Saoirse Ronan stars as Rona, a young woman who returns to her remote home in the Orkney Islands after a decade away in London. Sober but lonely, she tries to suppress her memory of the events which set her on this journey of recovery. Slowly the beauty and lore of the land enter her inner world and—one day at a time—Rona finds hope and strength in herself among the heavy gales and the bracingly cold sea.

SATURDAY

She Taught Love, Disney+

Frank Cooper (Darrell Britt-Gibson) has been coasting through life, distracting himself with women, booze, and the occasional illegal substance. An actor who’s just finished an arc on a hit cable show, he now waits for the next completely unfulfilling offer that Hollywood has for young Black actors, either a gang member or drug dealer. He’s stuck. Mali Waters (Arsema Thomas), on the other hand, is a successful, career-driven badass destined to take over the world. With ambition for days, she is the definition of a woman living for the future. They are polar opposites whose worlds change in an instant when they enter each other’s orbit. Despite their better instincts, the two are inescapably drawn to one another. But life has a way of making its own rules, and soon Mali is forced to face an inevitable truth. Together, the two must learn to rely on each other, choosing to love and live for the moment in an age of endless divisions and distractions.

SUNDAY

Strange Darling, in cinemas nationwide

Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree. Set in rural Oregon, the film focuses on a man and woman who have a one-night stand that devolves into a cat-and-mouse game of murder. It is divided into six narrative chapters arranged in nonlinear order and presented as a dramatisation of the pinnacle of a serial killer’s years-long murder spree in the Western United States.

Photography by Limelight.