Savagely attacked in December 2012, Maureen Kearney was convicted of lying, then released. “La Syndicalist” retraces the story of her ordeal in a captivating thriller. The news item had only been a thread in December 2012 in the press, when an Areva trade unionist had been attacked at her home in the Paris region, gagged, … Read More ““La Syndicalist”: Isabelle Huppert is Maureen Kearney, whistleblower in a thriller against Areva” »
Month: February 2023
For the first time, star guitarist Thibault Cauvin is playing Bach for us. A Bach that he wanted to be obvious and simple, and it’s magnificent. Before the concert event on March 8 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, which marks his twenty-year career, he told us about the genesis of his latest album. … Read More “INTERVIEW. Guitarist Thibault Cauvin: “Bach is like a sunset, it’s for everyone”” »
If making your own biopic may seem the height of megalomania, you are never better served than by yourself. “The Fabelmans” is Steven Spielberg’s declaration of love for cinema. Steven Spielberg is a case. With The Fabelmans, on the screens Wednesday February 22, he is the first director to have shot and produced his own … Read More ““The Fabelmans”: the youth of Steven Spielberg told by himself, in a biopic cinephile” »
Daniel Zimmermann, 49, is one of the most brilliant and endearing jazz trombonists on the French contemporary music scene. For twenty years, the native of Châtenay-Malabry, who has toured alongside Claude Nougaro, Manu Dibango and Tony Allen among countless artists, has collaborated over time with musicians such as accordionist Vincent Peirani with which he formed … Read More “Daniel Zimmermann, jazz trombonist, revisits Serge Gainsbourg in an instrumental album: “I did everything to stand out from Gainsbourg, while respecting him”” »
The story : In the city of Otsuchi in Japan, more than a seven-hour drive north of Tokyo, a man once had the idea of installing a telephone booth in his garden, to welcome the sadness of the survivors of the tsunami of the 11 March 2011. Like Yui who lost her daughter and her … Read More ““What we entrust to the wind” by Laura Imai Messina: poetry and gentleness for a return to life after a tsunami” »
“Boyfriend” for Étienne Daho, “Rignite the stars” for Mylène Farmer, the two icons of French pop have decided to spoil their fans for Valentine’s Day. Article written by France Televisions Writing Culture Posted on 02/14/2023 18:58 Reading time : 1 min. Etienne Daho on July 7, 2021 in La Rochelle / Mylène Farmer on July … Read More “Valentine’s Day videos: Mylène Farmer and Étienne Daho share two new clips” »
The Tanzanian novelist, Nobel Prize 2021, signs with “Adieu Zanzibar” an epic, dazzling book on betrayed love and uprooting. Essestial. Albdulrazak Gurnah is a great storyteller: Farewell Zanzibar (Denoël) can be read on several levels and with relish. The original title, Desertion (2005)is perhaps more relevant. Farewell Zanzibar is a sum of farewells that don’t … Read More ““Adieu Zanzibar” by Abdulrazak Gurnah: the Tanzanian Nobel Prize winner as an extraordinary storyteller of everyday life” »
Marie-Hélène Lafon’s latest novel delves into the sources of her work through the intimate story of a family settled in an isolated farm in Cantal, under the yoke of a violent husband and father. After son’s storyPrix Renaudot in 2020, more than 160,000 copies sold, Marie-Hélène Lafon publishes The sources, a short novel in which … Read More ““Les sources”, the relentless latest novel by Marie-Hélène Lafon on the violence of a husband in an isolated farm in Cantal” »
Brother of the victim, Rachid Hami films his family torn apart by the stupid death of an exemplary student at the prestigious military school. The drowning of Jallal Hami at the age of 23 during a hazing (“barking” in the local jargon) at the school of Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan (Morbihan) in 2012, was quickly stifled by … Read More ““For France”: Rachid Hami questions the tragic hazing in Saint-Cyr in 2012 in a poignant film” »
Choreographer and dancer, Salim Mzé Hamadi Moissi offers a mix of female and male Comorian dances, between spirituality and extreme joy. Strips of red and white fabric form a triangle on the stage. This fabric is Chiromani, a two-tone cotton canvas popular with women in the Comoros. He gave the name to the new show … Read More “Suresnes Cités Danse: prodigy of urban dance, Salim Mzé Hamadi Moissi celebrates the Comoros” »