By Marc Alpozzo, philosopher and essayist We know Descartes for his famous method, but we know him less for his many travels. The wandering of Descartes has rarely been told[1]. But Descartes was a great traveler before settling and ending his life in Sweden. If the French philosopher foreshadows the great travel writers, it is … Read more
Potemkine Films continues its work around the filmmaker Nicolas Roeg this year since after Don’t look back, it’s the turn of walkabout to be released on blu-ray and DVD. Available since April 19, let’s take a look at the film, Nicolas Roeg’s first solo production dating from 1971. Indeed, when Roeg decided to go to … Read more
In Montreal, you can feel the influence of the next door neighbor: the glass and steel skyscrapers, the wide boulevards and the imposing cars. From Europe, we find a certain architecture and the emblematic sounds of Quebec. This mic-mac leaves little room for Aboriginals who are nevertheless the descendants of the first inhabitants of the … Read more