Tag: Culture
These demons that haunted their last days – L’Express
On February 23, 1942, in Petrópolis, Brazil, two days after sending his publishers the manuscript of the Chess playerStefan Zweig poisons himself with a barbiturate near Lotte, his second wife.…
Wolinski, the life boards of a bubble virtuoso – L’Express
Last June, he would have turned 90, a year he will never reach. If the oldest victim of the attack on Charlie Hebdo of January 7, 2015 bowed out too…
Should the Marquis de Sade be burned? – L’Express
It was the year 2000: the film was released on the screens Sade by Benoît Jacquot, with Isild Le Besco (still a minor) in the role of the young girl…
Mazan Affair: “Today we are witnessing the trial of rape culture”
This is a trial that shocks France and the world with the horror of the facts. In Avignon, the trial of the Mazan rapes continues, where Dominique Pelicot is accused…
Minister of Culture: Is Dati assured of staying? Arguments for and against
Rachida Dati, who will join the Ministry of Culture in January 2024, could keep her position in the next government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier. The composition of the new…
Are literary jurors and readers in sync? – L’Express
With the exception of the Académie française (scheduled for September 26), all the first lists of the major fall prizes have been released. This is an opportunity to cross-reference them…
In Antananarivo, an exhibition and a festival to raise awareness of the cause of women
How to commemorate Malagasy women? How to allow them to tell their stories, to re-appropriate history through their own stories? In Antananarivo, an exhibition and a festival both called “Vavy”…
much more than a full-throttle editor – L’Express
What struck me first when I met Sophie Charnavel was her incredible energy. I knew she came from Savoie, from a village near Morzine. With her smile and vitality, she…
Djeneba Aduayom, photography without borders
The French-Italian-Togolese artist has already had several lives in one life. Always driven by her creative spirit, the former professional dancer Djeneba Aduayom had to leave her youthful passion after…
Why you should watch “Riverboom”, a funny documentary about an improbable journey – L’Express
Since I saw Claude Baechtold’s film, Riverboom, I can’t meet anyone without talking to them about it anymore, I’m crazy about this film, I stammer about it, I can’t explain…