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“If you’re sitting on the couch in your 40s and 50s, you can’t expect to be a super-perky 60-year-old” – Marina Donner, 41, works out every morning
The banana leaves smell from afar. It’s Tuesday evening in the northern parts of Mariehamn, and the Donner family’s dinner is about to be prepared. Three years old Kira help…
a funny, sadistic and intelligent play, by Christophe Donner – L’Express
Savagery spreads, the savages respond to each other, and here are the artists summoned to mix their voices in the concert of ignominies, at the edge of the stage, like…
“Tashkent” by Rémi De Vos: the character of the Author, by Christophe Donner
In Tashkent, the play by Rémi De Vos, currently at the Marigny theater in Paris, the character of the Author seems to have come out of a novel by Thomas…
“The Goldman Trial”: doubt and suspicion, by Christophe Donner
On December 16, 1969, when the shots broke out in the pharmacy at 6, boulevard Richard-Lenoir, very close to the Bastille, my little sister Elisa, aged 7, lived with her…
These two Spanish comics that you absolutely must read, by Christophe Donner
We cannot say that Spain was the cradle of comics. And yet, as Léo Ferré said of the anarchists, if in the world production of comics there is not 1…
“Anatomy of a fall”: a perfect film, by Christophe Donner
As much to say it right away, Anatomy of a fall is a great movie. Of those who play with criticism, discourage it, exhausting its euphoric metaphors, in rare superlatives,…
A banal comic strip and a really funny “Tango”, by Christophe Donner
After the difficult subjects tackled recently in this column: pedophilia in Romania, going beyond art with the situationists Guy-Ernest Debord and Gil Joseph Wolman, I feared the intoxication of the…
Naples, “the più bella città”, by Christophe Donner
What I love about Naples is the retrospective dread of never having known it. I’ve never seen you like this, says Dora, who only knew me in Mexico in a…
Benoît Poelvoorde in person, by Christophe Donner
I enjoyed Olivier Babinet’s film, Normal, coming out this week, to meet the man who, in 1992, wanting to look older in the film that was to launch his prodigious…
Impasse de la Palestine, by Christophe Donner
Since he escaped death at the age of 23, Amos Gitaï has directed so many films, shows, written so many books and caused so many scandals that that evening, on…