A curious relationship that our civilization has with writing in general. Barely out of our mother’s womb, PAF! Birth certificate ! After the majority, rePAF! ID card. Leaving territory? Re-rePAF! Passport. Leaving the rail of legality caught red-handed? PAFPAF! Law and courts! I say PAF but I should write BAF! Like Baffe! A paper can … Read more
The French watch less television. Audiences drop drastically. Thirty minutes less in two years according to the 2022 report by Médiamétrie devoted to television. We only watch the small skylight for an average of 3 hours and 26 minutes each day, compared to 3 hours and 58 minutes in 2020 and 3 hours and 41 … Read more
Between the title of JG Ballard’s novel and that of the film, an exclamation point has disappeared. This lack, wanted by Cronenberg, suffices to express what Crash (1996) is not, and maybe it is. Those who expected a film full of sound and fury, built around the adrenaline of speed and the din of roaring … Read more
Recently appeared on the big screen Mulholland Drive, masterpiece of the master David Lynch. While the continuation of his mythical series has just started to be broadcast (and is presented at Cannes), a little return on the work and the news of this renowned filmmaker. David Lynch: a style, a touch David Lynch is above … Read more
The Force That Ravages Everything is quite simply a play about love. A love conceived not as an idyllic feeling, but as a force that seizes us and contaminates us, a kind of violent and uncontrollable disease, a devastating principle that turns everything upside down, ruins our resolutions to order and to reason, and triggers … Read more
Christine & the Queens, then Chris, then Redcar… Artists sometimes risk a lot by changing their stage name. The history of music is nonetheless dotted with celebrities who have used this process. Don’t call her Christine and the Queens anymore, but Redcar: changing the artist name in the song is a common exercise, from Prince … Read more
Can we count on young people? Isn’t it risky to give responsibilities to those who have no experience? Would it be a mistake to trust a young person? Qohelet seems to answer these questions when he says: “Woe to you, country whose king is a child (na’ar) (Qo 10,16). The prophet Jeremiah, too, faced with … Read more
At the last Cannes Film Festival, the revolutionary pop icon, already legendary in his lifetime by making his life a work of art far beyond his songs, returned to full light. Six years after the disappearance of David Bowie at barely 69 years old, following a courageous fight against liver cancer which became widespread, an … Read more
It is a documentary film on David Bowie which will not please everyone: “Moonage Daydream”, by American Brett Morgen, who furiously breaks the codes of the genre, was released in theaters on Wednesday. This 2:20 UFO looks like its director, who had signed “Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck” on the suicide leader of Nirvana and … Read more
It is a documentary film on David Bowie which will not please everyone: “Moonage Daydream”, by the American Brett Morgen, who furiously breaks the codes of the genre, is released in theaters on Wednesday. This 2:20 UFO looks like its director, who had signed “Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck” on the suicide leader of Nirvana … Read more