What to see on television this weekend? The Pilgrim’s recommendations

France 3 / Entertainment – ​​9:10 p.m.

The 33rd Classical Music Victories
Live from the Brest venue Le Quartz, in Finistère, this 33rd edition is that of the first times. Brittany is hosting the ceremony for the first time. Clément Rochefort, a regular at the event, is supported for the first time by comedian Alex Vizorek at the presentation. The presence of video game music is also a first. Another singularity: of the sixteen artists named, twelve are women musicians.

The Orchester national de Bretagne, conducted by Nicolas Ellis, will accompany the nominees and guests. Ensemble Matheus, by Jean-Christophe Spinosi, will also participate in this evening broadcast simultaneously on the France Musique station.

France 5 / Film – 9:05 p.m.

Victoria
“I see a psychic in addition to consulting you, I had to confess it to you,” she says to her shrink. Victoria Spick (Virginia Efira), a single mother and criminal lawyer, is in the middle of a mid-life crisis. While her ex-husband unpacks their private life on a blog, she agrees to defend one of her friends, Vincent (Melvil Poupaud), accused of having attacked his partner. Overwhelmed, she hires one of her former clients, the young and idle Sam (Vincent Lacoste), as her personal assistant.

A great admirer of American independent filmmaker John Cassavetes, who wrote tailor-made scripts for his wife Gena Rowlands, director Justine Triet offers Virginie Efira one of her best roles: that of a magnetic, but confused woman. Onto this sensitive and ironic portrait are grafted a poorly embarked love story and an offbeat trial film in which a dog and a monkey are called to testify.

Released in 2016, Victoria sets up, in a light version, which will hit the mark in Anatomy of a fallPalme d’Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival: a meticulous casting serving fine lines that reveal the hidden side of the characters.

Our opinion: PP

France 2 / Magazine – 8:30 p.m.

The Papotin meetings
Last January, a month before winning the first César of his career (awarded for the screenplay of his film A bear in the Juraco-written with Sarah Kaminsky), Franck Dubosc took part in the game of questions from the atypical journalists of Le Papotin. The interview, relocated to Alpe d’Huez on the occasion of the International Comedy Film Festival, was immediately intimate.

The questions, seemingly naive, “touched (the actor) to the heart”, in his own words, and allowed him to speak with simplicity and emotion about his childhood, the complicated period of adolescence, but above all the modest relationship he had with his father.

Our opinion: PPP

TF1 / Magazine – 2:50 p.m.

Wild animal veterinarians: the risks of the profession
Here is a job that will make more than one dream! In a zoo, in a clinic or abroad, this number of Great reports follows four veterinarians specializing in wildlife, out of the hundred who practice in France. The aim is to offer happy slices of life of our human or animal heroes. If the risks of the profession are discussed, it is rather the joys that are illustrated. The commitment of the caregivers and the resources deployed are impressive: anesthetizing a giraffe, performing cataract surgery on a kinkajou, a small nocturnal mammal from Costa Rica, helping a snake to molt…

Faced with a recovered and released animal, Norin Chaï confides his joy of being “in connection with the life that makes us what we are”. Small downsides: by focusing on exotic animals, this documentary neglects the fate of the wild fauna which, in our territories, seeks a place at our side. It also does not address issues related to species preservation or changing views on animal shows or zoos.

Our opinion: PP

KTO / Documentary – 9:40 p.m.

In five hours I will see Jesus
He was promised an easy life; he ended up under the guillotine. Son of a good family, Jacques Fesch killed a police officer during a failed robbery in 1954. Three years later, he was executed, at the age of 27. In the meantime, he is experiencing a radical transformation. The documentary traces his dazzling spiritual journey in cell. Guided by his mother-in-law, the chaplain of the La Santé prison and a confidant monk, Fesch converted, drawing inspiration from the good thief and Thérèse of Lisieux.

His correspondence and diary, published after his death, reveal a mystical thought of rare intensity. Supported by poignant archives and a sober staging, this story of redemption is illuminated by the testimonies of his son, his grandson, a gendarme present at the execution and Father Henri Moreau, postulator of his cause for beatification, opened in 1987.

Without excusing his crime, the film by Samuel Armnius (winner of the Jacques-Hamel prize for documentary The 21, the power of faith) asks: can one become a saint after having killed? Response from Mgr Matthieu Rougé, Bishop of Nanterre: “For every sinner, a path to conversion is possible, and a path to holiness is possible. »

Our opinion: PPP

France 5 / Documentary – 10:40 p.m.

Violette Morris, a woman to kill
This documentary traces the destiny of a controversial sportswoman from the interwar period. She practiced athletics, swimming, football… and held the women’s world record in the shot put and the European record in the javelin in the 1920s. If her robust physique intrigued the French of her time, her behavior considered vulgar and her homosexuality repelled them.

After being ousted from the Women’s Sports Federation for violence, preventing her access to the 1928 Olympic Games, she harbored a hatred of her country from which she hoped for recognition. This simple but well-crafted story follows his trajectory until his killing in 1944 by resistance fighters for collaboration with the enemy.

Our opinion: PP

France 3 / Series – 11:25 p.m.

Murders in troubled waters
Found dead, a pfennig stuck between his sewn lips, a diver has just brought up a hoard of gold coins dating back several centuries from the depths of Lake Constance, on the border between Germany and Austria. This recalls an ancient ritual, in force during the Black Death in the Middle Ages. Austrian police commander Hannah Zeiler and her German counterpart Micha Oberländer (Nora von Waldstätten and Matthias Koeberlin), once again called upon to cooperate, base their investigation on a legend of witchcraft exhumed from local folklore for the occasion.

But a misunderstanding poisons the already complicated relations between the two police officers. Entitled The Treasure of the Black Death, this pleasant 2020 episode reveals a more intimate side of the two characters.

Our opinion: PP