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Competitive humor
The Olympic Games started ten days ago, and France still has no medals. All hopes rest on Paul, a sports shooter who never misses a shot. When he arrives at the Olympic village with his coach, with whom he is secretly in love, the champion becomes unstable. his roommate, a Vanuatu swimmer, would rather win a series than train. It’s enough to give clumsy Paul his virginity back… “Since the beginning of my career, I’ve tried to really explore all forms of masculinity. For me, fragility is one thing. I love that the current era allows us to strip things down and break the clichés. […] I prefer someone who questions himself, not a block of certainty,” explains Benjamin Voisin, the interpreter of this narrow athlete, who is trying to cure himself of the competitive spirit. Like his partner Emmanuel Bercot, the actor85th summer steps out of his comfort zone with this absurdist comedy that fits him like a glove. Jeremy Sey directed the series Parliament and the son of a sports journalist, signs back Spirit of Coubertin A fun and unique first film that leans as mischievously on a schoolboy prank as it does on its troubled and reserved character. M.L.
Spirit of CoubertinWith Jeremy Senn, Benjamin Voisin, Emmanuel Berko, Ore Atika, Laura Phelpin…
Summer with Pampa Folks
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Their voices have silky and airy textures that immerse the listener in a state of weightlessness and carefreeness. The musical palette of Pampa Folks, a variable geometry band, is built on a clever mix of shimmering Hawaiian guitar sounds, drums and electronic sounds, arranged like splashes of color in a pointillist painting. Following his debut album in 2018, Thomas Lavernay, the Parisian performer, composer and one-man band behind Pampa Folks, releases an in-depth album titled: It starts at the end of the world. This end of the world awakening throughout the works is accompanied by loose melodies, choruses and kinetic orchestration a la Rie Coudre. With a tone as gentle as it is rough-edged, Thomas Lavergne creates the haunting soundtrack of an imaginative road movie. Folk, pop and psychedelic indie tunes influenced by Californian music and French touches follow one another, all created with a sense of perfect balance. A collaborator with bands like Arcade Fire, the French composer enlists French singer and poet Léa Petges as well as Finn Julia Johansen of Parisian trio Oracle Sisters on several tracks. Their crystalline voices add an even more ethereal and poetic dimension to the whole thing. PG:
It starts at the end of the worldTeepee Records.
A fabulous odyssey
Press:
Young Hanne has only one religion: nature. Unfortunately, animism and Lutheranism do not mix well. From the pastor’s sermons to parental instructions and from chores to reprimands, the young girl barely manages to conform to the model of femininity imposed by her religious community. Being a good 16-year-old Protestant girl, and according to her mother, Hanne should be married by now. But he has no intention of getting married. It is in the village that he finds his salvation, where every noise becomes a melody thanks to his gift of synesthesia; “The sound of this village is a steady note that never ends.” It was a snowy day in 1836, in the Prussian forest where he met the beautiful Thea, that he had an epiphany. Described by her neighbors as a ‘strange girl’, she later finds her soulmate in someone who ‘prefers to dance to her music’. When two teenagers’ friendship turns into love, news arrives to turn village life upside down. The king agreed for the congregation to travel to South Australia where they could worship in peace. The old Lutherans then made their way to Hamburg to join their Eldorado for fanatics stationed on native lands. But famine, pestilence, and storms mark the passage, and the travelers’ hopes are quickly fading… Hannah Kent loves free spirits and a mix of genres. At the intersection of historical novel, fantasy odyssey, and colonial mural, the Australian author blends austerity and mysticism, life and death, in strikingly lyrical prose. Something to really get excited about Glowing. O.M
Glowing, by Hannah Kent, Éditions Les Presses de la Cité, 576 p., €24. Translated by Sarah Tardy.
Source: Le Figaro
