Master Scorsese, Mike Kelly exhibition, Ian McEwan’s masterpiece… Madame Figaro Culture Week

Master Scorsese

Which? Released the time The Wolf of Wall Street In the works of Martin Scorsese, love (or friendship), greed and violence often coexist. Flower Moon Assassins is part of this straight line. The American director is based on the true story of the Osages, who became very rich after oil was discovered on the land allotted to them by the government. Directed by the New York maestro for the sixth time, Leonardo DiCaprio plays a 14-18-year-old survivor who is persuaded by his uncle, a wealthy Oklahoma farmer, to marry an Osage woman. A short time later, Native American women married to white men are found dead under strange circumstances… At about three and a half hours, this twilight western is as deep as it is complex. Incredibly modern as its themes resonate with our times, Flower Moon Assassins tells the story of America’s racism and brutality that crushes the weakest. This crime thriller is full of narrative and formal ideas (the latter is anthological), brilliantly combines the epic and the political, and offers an exciting playground for its leading trio. Leonardo DiCaprio impresses as a cowardly and sullen puppet, Robert De Niro chills the blood as a ruthless mobster, and Lily Gladstone bears the weight of the suffering of an exterminated people with dignity and nuance. M.L.

Flower Moon AssassinsWith Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone.

In the mind of Mike Kelly

American Mythologies. This is the title taken from the Haitian writer Dani Laferriere for a new season of exhibitions at the Bourse des Commerces, including a Mike Kelly retrospective, which, based on counterculture, deconstructs these… American myths. “Ghost and Spirit” occupies the Salon, Rotunda, and second floor galleries while the film The day is over (2006) is continuously projected in the auditorium. Mike Kelly (1954-2012), an influential and provocative artist, not to mention a contemporary art punk, has a practice that includes performance, music, painting, sculpture, installation, photography and video. The exhibit, which offers a new look at this Michigan-born, adopted Californian, features immersive bodies of work, including the impressive Candors, or future cities under glass bells, a series inspired by Superman’s hometown. He, who was primarily interested in collective and individual memory, gender and social class relations, thought about the difference between a ghost and a spirit… One disappears, the other remains, he thought. Ghost or spirit, Mike Kelly’s shadow floats in the stock market. L.K.

Mike Kelly. Ghost and Spirit until February 19, 2024 at La Bourse de Commerce, Paris. pinaultcollection.com

The life of an amazing writer

Ian McEwan has included autobiographical episodes in his new novel: childhood in Libya, where his father served as a member of the British army, adolescence in an all-boys boarding school, discovery of a family secret… Unlike him, however, the hero. from Lessons don’t become a writer. It is to his wife Alisa that this privilege is reserved, or this curse, as she decides to do so, leaving not only her husband, but also their child behind, with many dramatic complications, suspicions from the police during the reunion. The fall of the Berlin wall. It is a masterpiece Lessons restores the depth of a life and a century, opening with the threat of Chernobyl and returning to World War II; Alisa’s father belonged to the “White Rose” German resistance movement. the author ofAtonement coming and going between past and present with a virtuosity he had already demonstrated brilliantly Saturday at Chesil Beach or Operation Sweet Tooth. He knows perfectly how to play with points of view and genres, the texture of time and the arrangement of adventures, but all the beauty. Lessons more due to the power of the sense of intimacy that he manages to convey while telling the story of the existence of a man caught, like millions of others, in the course of History, to the point that he takes us to the center of reflection. artistic title. Roland, who cannot become a poet, a concert performer, a tennis champion, who cannot break out of the ordinary, would he still trade his life for the extraordinary work for which Alyssa sacrificed marriage and child? Ian McEwan gives us an exciting and powerful answer… the perfect antithesis of which is a priori itself. MTH:

Lessons, by Ian McEwan, Éditions Gallimard, 650 p., €26. Translated by France Camus-Pichon.