Series, exhibition, novel – everything that the editorial staff recommends to see and read this week.
And the Thomsons created Bardot
Bardo knows how to be desirable. Since announcing its June 2022 release, the series, which focuses on the icon’s beginnings (ages 15 to 26), has managed to gain attention, particularly by keeping the name of its star actress under wraps. Young actress Julia de Núñez is finally revealed in France 2’s new work by Danielle and Christopher Thomson. In addition to her obvious physical resemblance to the sex symbol, the actress manages to transform the childlike femme fatale on screen. It also manages to resurrect some of the most legendary scenes from the cinema of Roger Vadim and Henri-Georges Clouzot (a dangerous exercise) while letting its modernity shine through.
In addition to uncovering (or rediscovering) the Bardot myth, the mini-series takes the viewer back to the 1960s, the New Wave era, when a new generation of directors broke the codes of the seventh art. Here the birth of young actors and filmmakers takes place, especially thanks to the predominant roles of agents and producers of the time: Anne Le Nee and Ivan Atal shine in the skin of Olga Horstig and Raoul Levy. Bardo the rebel, Bardo in love, Bardo the persecuted, the Thompsons’ new BB did well to wait.
MG:
Bardo, With Daniel and Christopher Thomson, Julia de Nunes, Victor Belmondo, Jules Benchetry, Géraldine Paillas, Hippolyte Girardot… From May 8 on France 2.
Norman Foster, High Tech Architect
The central courtyard of the British Museum in London. Press:
We owe him so many iconic buildings all over the planet. Among others, the City Hall or the Millennium Bridge in London, the HSBC building in Hong Kong, the Hearst Tower in New York… The building is even already classified as the headquarters of Willis Faber and Dumas in Ipswich, England, other achievements appear in France, such as the Old Narbonne the regional museum or the reconstruction of the Old Port of Marseille… The Center Pompidou in Paris is dedicated to the British Norman Foster, a major figure in world architecture, a top line leader. – technological current (or late modernism), extensive exhibition. Two thousand square meters, like a living room, are devoted to his workbooks, his many models allow to understand hundreds of architecture and design projects.
Early on, he befriended Richard Rogers (an architect like Renzo Piano of the Center Pompidou) and set up a practice with him in 1963, after parting ways a few years later. He then formed a firm with his wife, Wendy Cheesman, which was renamed Foster + Partners. By the 2000s, they had more than five hundred employees in their agencies spread across London, Berlin and Hong Kong. In 1999, he was awarded the Pritzker Prize, equivalent to the Nobel Prize in Architecture. Norman Foster, an architect of networks and exchange systems, has always reconciled himself to technological progress and a sustainable ecology. 87-year-old pioneer.
CL:
Norman Foster, from May 10 to August 7, Pompidou Center in Paris.
An intimate and touching novel
People need stories, always, even more so in difficult or dramatic times. In this first novel, the Italian-Somali author weaves the journeys of several characters through which they tell their loved ones and not-so-close ones. All are young women, men, brothers, sisters, cousins, cousins or just friends who grew up in Mogadishu and fled the civil war to go to Europe, the United States, sometimes Asia… They create a diaspora whose members get; lost and find each other, betray or help each other. The stories of their wanderings, survival, integration attempts are extraordinary human adventures, valid also for the essential bond they create between them, turning into stories. An antidote to loneliness and fear, these stories allow exiles to recreate a sense of belonging to a common destiny, language, and therefore country. The stories are embedded within each other, creating a wonderful sense of abundance. We travel a lot geographically and emotionally. The writing, close to spoken language and fueled by poetic anecdotes, is full of humanity and exchanges. This novel is a reminder of how exiles, through violence and a wealth of experience, are resilient and intelligent people, with hearts and minds that have much to give. Several stories deal with the relationship between men and women, and the changing vision of these young people from Africa is fascinating.
IPs
Madre Piccola, By Ubah Christina Ali Farah. Editions Zulma, 352 pages, €22.90. Translated by François-Michel Durazzo.
Source: Le Figaro
