On a crime hunt with Luchini and Huppert
BLots of fantasy, lively dialogues, colorful characters: François Ozon has fun with my crime, a detective comedy adapted from a play that skilfully plays the feminist card without lapsing into caricaturism. Like a touch of Post #MeToo and #BalanceTonPorc in corseted Paris in the 1930s.
The pitch? How Madeleine (Nadia Tereszkiewicz), a penniless and talentless young actress, blames herself for the murder of a famous stalking producer and is acquitted of self-defense thanks to her lawyer friend Pauline (Rebecca Marder). What brings him this long-awaited fame. But is she the real killer? In an art deco universe of the most beautiful effect, Ozone leads the investigation into a maelstrom of comical situations, served up by a brilliant cast: Fabrice Luchini as a clumsy judge with Louis Jouvet airs, Isabelle Huppert excels as a whimsical star and Dany Boon surprises as a businessman from Marseille. The supporting roles are coordinated: André Dussollier, Michel Fau, Myriam Boyer, Régis Laspalès, Daniel Prévost and Franck de La personne. It’s funny, tongue-in-cheek, a little theatrical, and in the spirit of the Hollywood comedies of the ’30s and ’40s by Frank Capra and Billy Wilder, in which women are often smarter than men.
“My Crime”, indoors.
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Adopt new rituals
Upon entering, the visitor is immersed in semi-darkness, while an intoxicating sound composition by the American artist Kali Malone, born in 1994, celebrates the topic of fertility. Around you, strange objects intertwine religious and pagan, ancient and contemporary references. Born in 1986, South African artist Bianca Bondi presents an installation in the form of a fake Zen garden, in which the walker wanders amidst rock crystals, surrounded by beds of white sand, where small puddles of colored liquid are reminiscent of rising sulfuric water. Ritual works by the Cuban Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) stand next to a Cycladic idol from the 3rd millennium BC. A painting by Wifredo Lam (1902-1982) and an engraving from a medieval work by Hildegarde von Bingen (1098-1179) stand alongside a tapestry of a celestial body by Canadian Tau Lewis, born 1993, and sculptures depicting the rebirth of the totem Queens by the Frenchwoman Jeanne Vicérial, born in 1991. Above, hypnotic videos invite you to strange shamanic ceremonies. The collective exhibition “Beyond” brings together around twenty artists from all generations and transforms the three floors of Lafayette Anticipations into an initiation journey. “We discover gestures, objects, sounds and crafts related to the energy of the earth and living beings,” says Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, director of the site. An exotic journey that takes us far, “to the limit of here and there, penetrating the broken veil of the world to allow us to perhaps touch the sacred, if only for a brief moment,” says the Curator of this disturbing exhibition. Agnes Gryczkowska.
” Outside of “. Lafayette expectations. Entrance: 9, rue du Plâtre or 44, rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, Paris 4e. Open every day (except Tuesday) from 11am to 7pm until May 7th. Free.
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Crack the city with Gorillaz
Our favorite apes come out of their jungle to deliver an eighth album with high-flying collaborators (Thundercat, Tame Impala, Bad Bunny, Beck…) as always. The most successful virtual group in the world (they have amassed almost 18 million album sales), born 25 years ago in Notting Hill by Damon Albarn, the hyperactive singer of Blur, with Tank Girl’s designer Jamie Hewlett. wanted to carry “the sound of change and the chorus of the collective” in this opus.
On the text side, the promise is kept. Let’s face it, some of these ten titles suffer from blatant sluggishness and laziness. However, in this expert mix of funk-electro-soul-hip-hop-funk-pop-dub we find some dancing (“Cracker Island”), floating (“Silent Running”) and cathartic (“Oil”) pearls. Above all, we can only admire the innovative spirit of the duo’s four cartoon gorillas, who took Times Square and Piccadilly Circus by storm this winter with the help of Google Labs, virtual hallucinating giants playing above the crowd, Kings Kongs in pixels , engulfing buildings with their beats… A revolutionary immersive performance.
Cracker Island (Parlophone / WEA).
Rediscover the flame with Matisse
Everything starts with the woman with veil (1927), a sumptuous melancholy canvas brought specially from MoMA in New York. We perceive the crisis of inspiration that Matisse went through as he approached his sixties, when, in his comfort in Nice, he specialized in the manufacture of odalisques, which sold well but every day discouraged him a little more from the radicalism of his Youth. The exhibition at the Musée de l’Orangerie tells us how Matisse found himself: first thanks to the magazine art books, which highlights his production of the 1910s and allows him to rediscover his own creativity; then thanks to a woman, Lydia Délectorskaya, who became her favorite model. We discover her as a sensual nymph in magnificent drawings and admirably performed now rose from 1935 came an extraordinary loan from Baltimore. A vital impulse, powerfully sensual, then vibrates in Matisse’s painting. You must go and regenerate yourself at this source.
“Matisse, Cahiers d’art, the turn of the 1930s”. Until May 29th at the Musée de l’Orangerie. night every Friday. www.musee-orangerie.fr
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Treat yourself to a quarter of an hour of reading material
To stop! It’s time… to read. For the second consecutive year, the National Book Center (CNL), in collaboration with the Ministry of National Education and Youth and all its partners, invites French women and men to a “fifteen hour reading” on March 10 at 10 am. In 2022, marked by the Great National Cause, almost 2,000 entities participated in the first edition of the National Quarter of an hour: associations, municipalities, administrations, libraries, media centers, companies, social centers, Ehpad … The project is this same this year: open a book for at least fifteen minutes, whoever you are, whatever you do, wherever you are. The CNL invites structures wishing to participate in the event register on his website. A practical online guide is also available to participants to prepare for the “fifteen-hour reading”. you can share their initiatives above Social networks with the hashtag #10 Marshals.
More information on the CNL website.
