From A Useful Ghost to Self Esteem: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Photograph: Olivia RichardsonView image in fullscreen Photograph: Olivia RichardsonFrom A Useful Ghost to Self Esteem: your complete entertainment guide to the week aheadA woman is reincarnated as a vacuum cleaner in this Cannes prize-winning black comedy, and the uncompromising pop star hits the festival trailContents1Going out: Cinema2Going out: Gigs3Going out: Art4Going out: Stage5Staying in: Streaming6Staying in: Games7Staying in: Albums8Staying in: Brain foodView image in fullscreenGoing out: CinemaA Useful GhostOut now Winner of best film at Cannes Critics’ Week, this tale of a woman reincarnated as a vacuum cleaner takes you to plenty of unexpected places, even when you discount the sort of unexpectedness suggested by the premise. Part Marxist thriller, part supernatural romance, and taking in foul-mouthed monks and drama with the in-laws along the way, Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s directorial debut is an oddball treat.On the SeaOut now Made mostly outside the traditional funding mechanisms for UK film, this independent second feature from Helen Walsh is a lovely, graceful depiction of repression and queer desire in a Welsh mussel-harvesting community.

Barry Ward gives a fine performance as the married man who finds himself drawn to a younger itinerant worker (Lorne MacFadyen).Aardman RetrospectiveCinemas nationwide In the run-up to the release of Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, look out for summer holiday rereleases of a plethora of Aardman classics in cinemas, including A Matter of Loaf and Death, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and the film that first introduced woolly hero Shaun, A Close Shave.Pinocchio UnstrungOut now Director Rhys Frake-Waterfield was also behind Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey and its sequel.

This new instalment in what the film-makers call The Twisted Childhood Universe features Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger) as the voice of Jiminy Cricket. Catherine BrayGoing out: GigsView image in fullscreenBig country … Luke Combs goes next-level.

Photograph: Dingena Mol/ANP/AFP/Getty ImagesCamp BestivalLulworth Castle, nr Wareham, 30 July to 2 August Rob da Bank’s enduring family-friendly festival returns with its mix of kids’ activities – bee-keeping has been added this year, alongside skateboard ramp lessons and trampolining – and music from Bastille, Fatboy Slim, Self Esteem and more. Michael CraggElgar’s FirstRoyal Albert Hall, London, 29 JulyThe English composer’s magnificent Symphony No 1 gets top billing, but this concert also features the first major world premiere of the BBC Proms season. The World’s Wife by Brett Dean sets Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry and is performed by soprano Claire Booth and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth.

Flora WillsonLuke CombsEdinburgh, 25 July; London, 31 July to 2 August The US country music superstar, who scored a UK hit with his cover of Fast Car in 2023, steps up to stadiums. With six albums under his belt, including this year’s deeply personal The Way I Am, expect a setlist brimming with crowd-pleasing self-reflection. MCEdinburgh Jazz & Blues festivalVarious venues, 25 & 26 July This event consistently embraces international and Scottish artists.

Its closing weekend includes folk-inflected sax-led quartet Harben Kay (25 July), Joni Mitchell-inspired singer Michelle Willis (25 July) and multi award-winning jazz/hip-hop sax star Soweto Kinch (26 July). John FordhamGoing out: ArtView image in fullscreenBack to bedlam … Richard Dadd’s Bacchanalian Scene, 1862.

Photograph: Oliver Cowling & RodTidnam/Tate ImagesRichard DaddRoyal Academy of Arts, London, 25 July to 25 October Step into a world of fairies and folklore in Beyond Bedlam, a look at the work of the Victorian artist. He remained forgotten by history until the 1960s, when his life in Victorian asylums became a source of inspiration for countless artists.Michael PinskyMidlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, 25 July to 4 October For The Final Bid, Pinksy has filled this gallery with secondhand chairs, all hung from the ceiling, which visitors are invited to bid on.

Each bid drives the chair higher up towards the ceiling, in a strange capitalistic ballet about value and detritus.Clare WoodsPitzthanger Manor, London, 29 July to 8 November The exhibition, called Garden Without Seasons, sees meditative paintings and collages of the natural world in this Sir John Soane-designed country house, each work pushing the boundary between abstraction and figuration and asking viewers to slow down and contemplate.Susan HughesMAC, Belfast, 30 July to 18 October This Belfast-based artist and fiddle player travelled around Ireland collecting stories about the mysteries, myths and collective power of traditional music.

The result is this show filled with objects, songs and a stage for ad-hoc performances. Eddy FrankelGoing out: StageView image in fullscreenDolly, pardon? The World Is Full of Married Men.

Photograph: Emmalisa PaulyThe World Is Full of Married MenThe Yard theatre, L