Track monsters with The Witcher
L’epic of the “witcher” Geralt de Riv was born in 1986 in the imagination of a Polish writer, Andrzej Sapkowski. Adapted as a video game by CD Projekt Red studio, which made it a masterpiece of the genre, The Witcher captured the hearts of fans of heroic fantasy before being adapted into a series by Netflix in 2019. In an enchanted medieval universe, powerful lords reign over a world where witches and magical creatures mingle with the people. Trained from an early age to fight against the dreadful beasts that haunt woods and villages, witers guarantee the safety of this little fantasy world. One of them, the very gruff Geralt de Riv, a mercenary with muscular charisma, all in polar blond hair and golden eyes, one morning wakes up the unwilling father of a whimsical teenager and in love with a versatile witch. After a first season built on several temporal and narrative axes, which told the life of the three main characters before their meeting, the second season, clearer, focuses on the war that this strange reconstituted family is waging against several evil powers, including ever more filthy monsters and martyred elves thirsty for vengeance. Breathtaking action scenes, majestic landscapes, poignant love affairs and creaking humor: all the ingredients that make the charm of the saga are there, and the series devours itself to the full.
On Netflix
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Deconstruct Carmen
It is one of the most performed operas in the world! Co-signed by Georges Bizet, Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, Carmen is now staged around the world. If you’ve already seen it and even if you thought you knew this emblematic work, taken from a short story by Prosper Mérimée, the show offered by Philippe Lafeuille this winter will surprise you. Because the good man does nothing less than “deconstruct” this masterpiece. After the triumph of his previous show, titled Tutu, the choreographer and his troupe, the Chicos Mambo, revisit this cheeky gypsy story that turns the heads of Don José and Escamillo by entrusting the entire cast to men (including the title role of the most famous cigar roller in the repertoire!). In doing so, Lafeuille transforms the melodrama into a farce where his eight dancers, accompanied by a singer, brilliantly perform high-end numbers. The evening of the creation of the show, the jubilant public cheered at length Philippe Lafeuille, who, in exchange, made the room dance. “Let yourself be carmenized … You have to laugh in these difficult times”, he cried to the recalcitrant who clung to the armrests of their chairs. Result: everyone ended up letting go and it was by singing “love is a rebellious bird” that the audience was cheered up during the night.
Car-Men, show staged and choreographed by Philippe Lafeuille, with Antonio Macipe (alternating with Rémi Torrado) on vocals and dancers Antoine Audras, François Auger, Antonin “Tonbee” Cattaruzza, Phanuel Erdmann, Jordan Kindell, Samir M’Kirech, Jean -Baptiste Plumeau and Stéphane Vitrano. Until January 29 at the Théâtre libre: 4 boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris 10e.
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Savor a good Pizza
This Licorice Pizza (Licorice Pizza ) offered by Paul Thomas Anderson is a trip to the sunny and carefree country of a dream teenage … In the early 1970s, Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman), 16, pursued a dual career as an actor and an entrepreneur. When he is not running the castings, he ensures the communication of a Japanese restaurant to the very American boss… and invests in an invention of the future, the waterbed. Gary is soon joined in this hectic life by Alana Kane (Alana Haim, singer of the ultra-trendy group Haim), his senior by about ten years, seduced by her dynamism and – perhaps… – by her youthful charm . Their love story is punctuated by forays into the Hollywood of yesterday and today (Sean Penn plays a clone of William Holden, Bradley Cooper appears as Barbra Streisand’s cocaine boyfriend). A delightful escape into a freer and more joyful world that we can hardly leave.
Licorice Pizza by Paul Thomas Anderson, indoors
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Sharpen your rhymes at the “Hip-Hop 360” exhibition
Corrugated iron, metal curtains, graffiti, street images… Under its aluminum mound, the Philharmonie de Paris celebrates French hip-hop, which appeared 40 years ago and has become the most popular musical genre in the country. Headphones in hand, we plug into tagged metro cars where well-oiled beats resonate. Planting its roots in a multitude of trends (funk, disco, new wave…), hip-hop born in New York caused a tidal wave upon its arrival in France. Total movement, it transforms dance, plastic arts, music, fashion … A revolution of sound, colors, gestures. We listen to the rhymes of NTM, MC Solaar on ghettoblasters… Rap is everywhere. It is fascinating to travel to its origins.
Hip-Hop 360, until July 24 at the Philharmonie de Paris
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Cooking with JoeyStarr
It is he, the rap star, the actor with the hoarse voice, who is in the kitchen, in the first issue of the quarterly magazine he devotes to gastronomy: Five Starr. And imagine that it is very good. After the six-part documentary on the Road of thirst, Joey Starr invites us into the kitchen, opens his fridge, his cupboards, shares his good addresses (he loves going to restaurants) and his meetings: the Basque Country is in force, especially with Anthony Orjollet. Vegans, them, will go their way because Starr meets “the star butcher” Hugo Desnoyer and behind his salacious jokes defends the cause of women by leaving the floor to Lucile Bornot, who tells us all about how to cook lamb balls ! Without forgetting this portrait of an African winegrower and, to stay on the continent, this moment spent in the company of chef Harouna Sow, a Mauritanian refugee. In its collector’s version, one euro of the magazine’s price goes to the Refugee Food Festival. Sweet is not forgotten with Nina Metayer’s rum baba and other sweets. The layout and the photos are a festival of “committed and shared living cuisine” as the magazine’s slogan promises, where we also discover (in comics) Morville (Starr’s surname) father and son in the kitchen. Best of all: when Joey interviews his gastroenterologist! QR codes throughout the issue get you into the action quickly. Of course, the former NTM gives his playlist for a cooking session, but also favorites from his library.
Five Starr, Télémaque editions, on newsstands € 7.90, collector € 19.90