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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…
In Colombia, kings of the world without a future, by Christophe Donner
I remember Medellin. I had never heard of the cartel before. But the taxi we had taken at the airport had immediately put us in the mood, boasting of his…
Picasso seen by Paul Smith, by Christophe Donner
The evening was joyful. It happened at the Hotel Salé, which has housed the Picasso Museum for thirty-eight years, in the Marais. Have you been there before? Well you’re going…
“Tchaikovsky’s Wife” and Putin’s Syndrome, by Christophe Donner
Kirill Serebrennikov, director of Tchaikovsky’s Wife, did he realize that his two heroes, if not really good and bad, were also stupid? The story is simple and known to everyone:…
Films without a story, isn’t that the true meaning of cinema? By Christophe Donner
The videos of contemporary artists shown in the exhibitions are not always very pleasant to watch. This is where they differ from commercial cinema, which, needing a large number of…
“The death of Danton”: beware of undisputed masterpieces, by Christophe Donner
I had prepared well. It’s not every day that we witness The Death of Danton. On leaving UGC Les Halles, after crossing the Palais-Royal, I bought the text of Georg…
“Masters”: at the heart of administrative xenophobia, by Christophe Donner
Far from figures to which we make say what we want, far from politics for which that is only an argument, far from compassionate novels, soothing comedies and historical melodramas,…
What I thought of the series “The Recruit” on Netflix, by Christophe Donner
I have just finished the first episode of this series in eight episodes newly available on Netflix, The Recruit (The Recruit), and I already like him a lot, this Owen…
Scooters, I prefer them in the theater than on the sidewalk, by Christophe Donner
I hadn’t set foot in Espace Cardin since that evening in January 2002 when I kissed Dora for the first time on the mouth and, suddenly, found the room sensational.…