Tag: Jeanne
Jeanne Diama (Mali): “Hand-stitched / Human blows”
Anna tells when it all started: when she was 8 years old, when “the first gentlemen came to the house”. It bears witness to the chain of violence. She was…
Adam, Jeanne… What are the most popular first names in Paris in 2022?
In Paris, certain first names for girls and boys were more popular than others in 2022. INSEE has unveiled the national ranking of the most popular first names that year.…
Eurockéennes: Jeanne Added, glorious warrior
French author, composer and performer, Jeanne Added, has been carried in triumph by the public and the critics since her debut in 2012. After her two Victoires de la musique…
“Jeanne du Barry” by Maïwenn: farewell, nutty neo-feminism! By Abnousse Shalmani
Perhaps neofeminism is already moribund and a rational and productive feminism can emerge from this long delusional tunnel. What strikes me as most dangerous with neo-feminism – which refuses both…
“Jeanne du Barry”: Maïwenn’s film is an aesthetic scandal, by Sylvain Fort
Maïwenn’s film, Jeanne du Barry, was met with moderately favorable reviews, to say the least. We did not appreciate that the director seems, through Du Barry, to tell her personal…
The Cannes Film Festival under the spell of the shocking duo Maïwenn and Johnny Depp in “Jeanne du Barry”
Despite the controversies, Maïwenn and Johnny Depp managed to enthuse the Croisette. Jeanne du Barry, screened Tuesday evening at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, received a standing ovation.…
Maïwenn, director of “Jeanne du Barry”: “It’s a bit of a metaphor for my life”
Versailles in Cannes: it is the biopic of Jeanne du Barry, the last great love of King Louis XV, which will open the 76th Cannes Film Festival this Tuesday evening.…
A Khmer child named Jeanne Truong
Everything that is written exists because nothing else exists. This is indeed an author’s sentence. A phrase that comes out of a traumatized mouth, passed through silence, black hole, survivor’s…
Jeanne Herry shines her spotlight on restorative justice
In Rwanda, we know the “gacaca”, the customary system of hearings between accusers and accused intended to resolve local conflicts. In South Africa, there was the Truth and Reconciliation Commission,…
Jeanne Benameur, daughter of the Mediterranean and sister of Isis
Jeanne thinks, even when she dances, she thinks. She has Atlantic thoughts, also turned towards the Aegean Sea. That’s how in his bag, the undertow of a story begun in…