Movie Premiere Case, Annette’s Album, Sulfur Novel… Madame Figaro Culture Week

Proactive justice

A young lawyer, recent graduate, shy and academic, Nora has never felt anything, sacrificing everything for her studies and her fledgling career. Accidentally finding herself defending a boy suspected of a massacre of a young girl, she discovers another reality of the profession, which is all the more destabilizing as she falls under the spell of the policeman handling the case… Facing human cruelty and the deep dilemma of freeing potential culprits, the heroine has a difficult experience in the profession. , which is dedicated to ensuring justice, not morality. “A number of lawyers I’ve spoken to admit they prefer to defend the guilty rather than the innocent. With the guilty party, they just have to play with the legal mechanisms. It becomes a challenge to defend as best as possible,” explains Victoria Musiedlak, who signed this first film, starring Noah Abita. Appearing fragile and yet very intense, the actress carries all the ambiguity of the character and all the nuances of this educational story that focuses on the way social function can transform an individual. M.L.

First caseWith Victoria Musiedlak, Noah Abita, Anders Danielsen Lieu, Alexis Neisse, Francois Morel…

Architechno Anetha

For Aneta, the night is a space in which to store emotions in order to transport them and reinvent them in dance. Along with Charlotte de Witt, Nina Kraviz and Peggy Gou, he is one of France’s most popular contemporary DJs. Electronic music has long been dominated by male figures, but over the years female DJs like Aneta have emerged with strength, talent and innovation. An architecture graduate, the 34-year-old musician got on turntables as a teenager, inspired by electronic music bands like Kraftwerk. During his DJ sets, he flew to London and then explored the techno scene in Berlin, where he decided to produce his own creations. While still in Paris, he founded his own label to develop the French techno scene. Today, he pursues a musical quest where architecture and music meet. Accustomed to minimalist warehouses and brutally-inducing abandoned factories, he designs techno and post-club tracks that seem to redefine the relationship between environment, sound and light in the manner of repetitive music pioneers. Songs from his first album, Motherthen immerse us in sensory experiences like visual and acoustic architectures isolated from the outside world. PG:

Mother, Mama told Ya. Concert: on June 1, at the Bois de Vincennes in Paris, at the We Love Green festival.

Attractive and sulphurous

Books that reexamine history through the lens of MeToo often produce something hybrid and surprising. 1873 In Montreal, as everywhere in the West, the Industrial Revolution was in full swing. There is Marie, the daughter of a wealthy sugar factory owner, and Sadie, who is in open conflict with her family, a broken aristo who can’t stand her rebellious spirit. A close friendship is born between the two girls, love and competition mix together. While the proletariat, including women and children, endure harsh working conditions, the two Peronelles try their hand at dangerous games, including a Homeric duel that will send Sadie to an English boarding school. They will meet again in adulthood, when Marie becomes the head of the family’s recycling plant and Sadie attends a brothel in the imaginary depths of Montreal that inspires a sulphurous novel. An unbridled novel that allows for as strange as cryptic designs and all sorts of twists and turns, writing that wanders in service of a portrait of two powerful women. The fascinating thing is that they reveal their desire for emancipation, very often as reprehensible as men, and that their mistakes will be fatal for them. Beautiful is a relationship that survives all betrayals, this attraction that doesn’t fit into any known box, not true love, not just friendship, and that expands the possibilities. What is touching is that all the secondary characters are united in rebellion and revolutionary hope, including one George, a young woman who chooses to be neither man nor woman, but a person full of kindness. IP:

Losing your mind, by Heather O’Neill, Éditions les Escales, 464 p., €23. Translated by Dominique Fortier.