Becoming a Karl Lagerfeld series, an exhibition about exile, a novel about transmission… Madame Figaro Cultural Week

Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, love, fame and fashion

Telling his life in the series seemed risky because Karl Lagerfeld was already famous. But choosing to portray the artist through his love story with Jacques de Bascher, the creators Becoming Karl Lagerfeld were directly on target. The story begins in Paris in the spring of 1972. At that time, unknown to the public, Karl Lagerfeld was 38 years old and dreamed of a luxurious career like his friend Yves Saint Laurent. Obsessed with success, she makes the house of Chloé a success and uses strategies to climb the ladder. In his shadow, the young roper Jacques de Bascher, a free-time author, tries to find a legitimate place for himself in the world of aristocracy, but also in the heart of his German designer. Beyond its rhythmic and documented narration, the series relies on its bold casting choices. Daniel Bruhl shines as the Kaiser alongside Theodore Pellerin, the horribly unloved lover. Opposite them, Arnaud Valois managed to portray Saint Laurent (a difficult task after the remarkable interpretations of Pierre Nine and Gaspard Ulliel in the film) and Alex Lutz was suitable as Pierre Bergé. Verdict: Becoming Karl Lagerfeld will amaze scholars and cultivate novices. M.G.

Becoming Karl Lagerfeldseries created by Isaure Pisani-Ferry, Jennifer Have and Raphaëlle Bacque with Daniel Brühl, Alex Lutz, Théodore Pellerin, Agnes Jaoui… June 7 on Disney+.

Ghosts of Exile in Venice

Tell me who’s chasing you, I’ll tell you who you are. That’s a bit of the point Your ghosts are mine, which acts as a black diamond near the Venice Biennale. occupying the entire Palazzo Cavalli, curated by the French Mathieu Orleans (affiliated with the Cinémathèque française and whose beautiful exhibition on scrapbooks we could see about filmmakers last summer in Arles), this exhibition offers a long dive into the works, which echo each other, showing each of the paths of exile, limitation, displacement, life. Its uniqueness is that these works come from motion pictures or videos made by artists from countries such as Lebanon, Iran, Thailand, Ethiopia, Morocco, Mauritania, etc., and are partially produced by facilities in Qatar (Doha). Film Institute) or from its museum collections (Mathaf, the country’s museum of contemporary art or the future Art Mill Museum), which here display an impressive display of cultural soft power. Shown in themed rooms, excerpts, and by fixtures that highlight common spaces, often on multiple screens simultaneously, the films appear updated, in a different way. There is a strong impression that we watch movies as we live, moving from one screen to another, combining one idea with another, one feeling with another. What is the meaning of the world now, if not the way in which the most unexpected things chase each other? The exhibition thus presents a moving map of a world in the making, troubled and unsettled by its own movements. His images have been haunting for a long time. J.G.

Your ghosts are mine. Enhanced cinema, enhanced sounds, until November 24, at Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti, Venice. labiennale.org/en

A mural about transmission and memory

In his fifth novel, Cameroonian writer Hemli Boom, winner of the brand new Sciences Po Student Literary Prize, which honors French-language fiction that allows us to “understand our times,” interweaves two stories. On the one hand, Zacharias, a fisherman from Kampo, a village on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, who leads a peaceful life with his wife Yalana and their two daughters. But one day a logging company comes and in the name of bringing modernity destroys the traditional way of life of the villagers before ruining them. On the other hand, Zachary, a young boy who lives in a working-class neighborhood of Douala with his friends Akil and Nala, who at the age of 18 breaks up with everyone. He flew to Paris, where he became a clinical psychologist, married Julien, who was soon pregnant with twins, before the tragedy of one of his patients forced him to retrace his steps. This is because Zakaria and Zachary not only share a name, but they are of the same blood (the former is the latter’s grandfather) and share the same anxiety several decades apart; a terrible tragedy… a mural rich in echoes, with magnificent descriptions and cleverly woven motifs, A fisherman’s dream explores both the most intimate rifts and collective upheavals with a fine pen, both poetic and political. The family saga, like a thread of silk, runs through silence and secrecy, transmission and memory, transgenerational trauma, but also possible reconciliation with a world in which we have felt so long, so profoundly alien. MTH:

A fisherman’s dreamBy Hemley Boom, Éditions Gallimard, 352 p., €21.50.