Participate in a marathon with… Homer!
Sex, Adventure, and Politics: An Interrupted Reading ofOdyssey brings together writers and actors at the Beaux-Arts de Paris this Friday, January 21, from 6 p.m. to midnight. At the invitation of Point, the CNL, the Hellenic Cultural and Fine Arts Center, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Goncourt Prize 2021, Clara Dupont-Monod, Femina and Goncourt Prize for high school students 2021, François-Henri Désérable, Grand Prize for the novel of the French Academy 2021 , Karine Tuil, Prix interallié et Goncourt des lycéens 2020, Erik Orsenna and Jean-Christophe Rufin (respectively Goncourt 1988 and 2001), but also Abd al Malik, François Berléand, Clotilde Courau, Maria Pourchet, Olivia Ruiz, Christophe Ono-dit- Biot, Marie Modiano, Maylis de Kerangal, Jean de Loisy, Emmanuel Lascoux, Lilia Hassaine or Mathias Malzieu will follow one another on the stage of the auditorium of the prestigious school to read aloud, in bards of the XXIe century, the great episodes ofOdyssey from Homer, from Cyclops to sirens, from loves with Calypso to the massacre of suitors, from the spells of Circe to the confusion of Nausicaa, in Emmanuel Lascoux’s hyper-rhythmic translation (POL). This unique performance, accessible to the public (free but imperative reservation here), will take place as part of the Reading Nights, declared a “great national cause” among 5,000 events deployed throughout France.
“Homer’s Odyssey Reading Marathon”, January 21. National School of Fine Arts. Free access by reservation. https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-nuits-de-la-lecture-marathon-de-lecture-de-lodyssee-dhomere-245627517517
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Wring the conspirators’ necks with Tartuffe
For his Tartuffe or the Hypocrite, Ivo van Hove returns to the initial version of Molière prohibited by the king. “In particular, we lose Act V, but so much the better, because I don’t like the idea of this king appearing out of nowhere, of this God from the machine who saves the Orgon family and punishes Tartuffe, everyone knows that it was to flatter Louis XIV”, he recalls in his note of intent. The play in three acts only gains more in dramatic intensity, often carried by harsh halogen lights from the operating theater which are set up in a chilling noise. On the stage, the members of the Orgon family stand straight around a square, dressed in black fitted suits. Tartuffe – incredible Christophe Montenez whose acting becomes denser from room to room – seduces and makes his sadistic law reign. The gullible Orgon, embodied by a tragicomic Denis Podalydès, appears under hypnosis, forgetting his bruised wife, Marine Hands, in a trance throughout the play. Captivated by the odious character, he refuses to see the impostor who seduces her.
Denunciation of conspiracy, radioscopy of the battle between progressives and conservatives… The sharp staging of van Hove quickly takes off. One tastes the most famous rhymes and alexandrines as if they resounded for the first time: “Cover this breast which I cannot see: – By such objects souls are wounded, – And that causes guilty thoughts to come”; “When one comes to see your celestial charms, a heart lets itself be taken, and does not reason”; “I know, for all my science, false with true make the difference. We remember the chilling and captivating staging of Damned by Ivo van Hove to the French, in 2016. For the theatrical event of this beginning of the year, where we celebrate the 400 years of the birth of Molière, the Belgian, who is one of the best directors of Europe with the Italian Romeo Castellucci, the Portuguese Tiago Rodrigues, the German Thomas Ostermeier or the Frenchman Simon Gosselin, signs his return with pomp. Reserve the few remaining seats now or show up one hour before the performance to get some.Until April 24, 2022 at the Comédie-Française. With Claude Mathieu, Denis Podalydès, Loïc Corbery, Christophe Montenez, Dominique Blanc, Julien Frison and Marina Hands. Reservations here.
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Put an end to clichés about rap
UWith headphones in hand, we plug into tagged metro cars where well-oiled beats resonate. Corrugated iron, metal curtains, graffiti, street images… The Philharmonie de Paris celebrates French hip-hop, which appeared forty years ago and has become the most popular musical genre in the country. Hip-hop, born in the black neighborhoods of New York, caused a tidal wave when it arrived in France in the early 1980s. We listened on ghettoblasters to the rhymes of NTM, MC Solaar… Rap is everywhere. Even Madonna makes an appearance on the set of H.I.P. H.O.P, the Sydney TV show. However, rap does not always have good press and is often the subject of great misunderstanding. This exhibition is an opportunity to discover the richness of French rap, beyond the clichés. Because hip-hop is a street art that invades the airwaves, but also the walls of the city, the clothes we wear, with it appears breakdance, whose figures breaking down the body now permeate contemporary dance. . Taking its roots in a multitude of currents (funk, disco, new wave…), it is one of the most scholarly genres of popular music. The history of rap is also a history of technology: the appearance of new mixers and samplers gives birth to new sounds: hip-hop is rich, creative and prolific. Yo!
Hip-Hop 360, until July 24 at the Philharmonie de Paris
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Bathe in literature and salt water in Le Havre
The Literary Festival of Le Havre The taste of Others celebrates its tenth anniversary. With on the program for this 2022 edition (from January 20 to 23), placed under the sign of “secret”, the preview of Watch us dance the new novel by Leïla Slimani, the presence of the Spanish star Javier Cercas, author of The Imposter and award-winning polar high land, but also of Guillaume Gallienne, of the Comédie-Française (which will read, at the opening of the festival, The Soixante-Quinze Feuillets and other unpublished manuscripts of Proust), Karine Tuil, or even Gaspard Kœnig, well known to readers of Point. Wanted by its mayor and great reader Édouard Philippe (whose Clear prints and lines, written with his “hand of the king” Gilles Boyer, has just been released in Livre de Poche) and thought of as, according to it, “the spearhead of public policy Reading in Le Havre”, the festival will also welcome young authors, such as Alice Babin, Marin Fouqué, Dan Nisand or even Shane Haddad, Zoé Cosson, from the literary creation master of the uUniversity of Le Havre-Normandy.
The Taste of Others Festival, Le Havre, January 20-23, 2022, legoutdesautres.lehavre.fr
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Savor life with Lelouch
50e film by Claude Lelouch, who, at 84, takes stock of his career by proclaiming loud and clear that love, friendship and faith are our best guides. Its slogan: let’s savor life until the last minute. Nothing new, but he puts all his vitality, his enthusiasm and his ability to tell a story into it by capturing the gestures, the looks, the laughter, the tears, the buried desires of his characters. In this film, which he does not consider as a testament, it is about a “life stuntman” who knows he is condemned by illness (Gérard Darmon) and expects nothing more except the support of his two friends ( Philippe Lellouche and Ary Abittan). These two have decided to give her an ultimate gift that has the smile and charm of Sandrine Bonnaire, transformed into an escort girl. The contract turns out at first sight by the grace of Jesus, but the devil lurks. Surrounded by his “family”, the living (Elsa Zylberstein, Aldo Maccione, Clémentine Célarié, Béatrice Dalle, Kev Adams) and the deceased (Robert Hossein, Lino Ventura, Brel, Belmondo, Charles Gérard), Lelouch signs a fire comedy artifice and antidepressant.
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“Love is better than life” in theaters.
be in a trance with Euphoria
The final episode of the first season of this American series, directed by Sam Levinson, co-produced by rapper Drake and launched in 2019 on HBO, left millions of viewers upset and… addicted. Like the heroine of the show, Rue Bennett, whose series follows the return to her small town after a stint in rehab. On the benches of high school, Rue has forged a romantic friendship with Jules, a trans teenager who is a fan of muscular encounters with sugar daddies that she hunts on dating apps. In the streets of her impoverished town, riding a bike rocking to the rhythm of her rage or her stoned, Rue slowly plunged back into her addictions, while around her boys and girls, parents and teachers confronted their own demons: alcoholism, loneliness, photos and videos of nudes quick to ruin reputations, discovery of sexuality, unwanted pregnancies… Season 2 ofEuphoria is faithful to the spirit of this season 1: trashy, raw in violence and sex, but raised to the rank of masterpiece by its radical aesthetic biases, between flashy neon lights, tight shots and grandiose tracking shots, its choices sharp musical notes, from soaring electro to furious hip-hop, and the powerful play of its actors and actresses. The iconic Zendaya, in the role of Rue, is petrifyingly accurate, stuck between waking and sleeping, glorious trip and fall. In the role of Jules, the disturbing Hunter Schafer, slender, thin and dangerous as a blade, bursts the screen. Neither of these two prodigies overwhelms the rest of the cast, whose embodied characters and their stroboscopic torments stir us with each episode.
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