Electric Journey, Marseille Festival, Lobotomy Novel… Madame Figaro Cultural Week

Electric travel

Someday Jeff Nichols, director Mud and: Lover, came across a book by photographer Danny Lyon, who followed the life of the Outlaws, a Midwestern biker gang, from 1963 to 1967. Fascinated by the impression of freedom and the sexual appeal of the photographs, the filmmaker considers it a scriptural starting point. The Bikeriders was born. In the early 1970s, the film about bicycling and all the possibilities in America begins when Cathy, a young woman with a temper, falls in love with the handsome Benny, who has just joined the biker gang, the Vandals. When this new family turns into an organized crime syndicate, the young biker must choose between his brothers and the love of his life. American director Take shelter in the eyes of Martin Scorsese (time The freedom fighters) with this whirlwind into the end of ideals and the American dream, and the place of women in an ultra-religious world. Revealed in the series Killing Eve And The last fightBy Ridley Scott, actress Jodie Comer also excels in the lead roles of her still excellent co-stars Austin Butler (Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis) and Tom Hardy. M.L.

The BikeridersBy Jeff Nichols, with Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon…

Marseille to the rhythm of the world

While the Montpellier Dance Festival (June 22 to July 6), directed by Jean-Paul Montanari, seems to be losing its luster, the Marseille Festival continues to grow and offer us for this 29th edition some beautiful gems and many works, as its director Marie Didier says. “Rooted in the city that inspires it, open to the world around it and with around fifty plays, dances, performances, parties, films and music, the festival creates its main pillar. “. For… How is it possible to flourish in the salt desert? (Like a flower in a salt desert), South African choreographer Robin Orlin joins forces with the company Garage Dance Ensemble from the Northern Cape and the music duo uKhoiKhoi, a name that pays homage to one of the first tribes of the south. Africa for a powerful show that focuses on all the violence suffered by colonized South Africa. It was Beethoven’s sonata and Kanye West’s music that inspired Emmanuel Getty to create his new work, Freedom Sonataa show that goes from black to white and envelops us like a huge wave between ebb and flow, and since the sea is so close, we set sail for the Friuli Islands for the sea opera imagined by Benjamin Dupay… the road of adventure; BB:

Marseille festival until July 6. festivaldemarseille.com:

Journalist in front of medicine

The challenge for literature, at least Western literature, today is to find new angles to attack patriarchy. Award for Originality for this nerve-wracking novel inspired by the Nobel Prize in Medicine won in 1949 by two doctors who invented the lobotomy to treat mental illness. We follow Janet, a young New York journalist who struggles to establish herself in the male world of the press at the end of World War II. It is attached to the coat of a student of two Nobel laureates, who works with all his might, with the aim of emptying the shelters stocked by soldiers returning from war in a dirty state. The operation consisted of reaching the brain, cutting certain circuits there, making holes in the temples, and then passing through the eye socket… The technique got results: it soothed the sick. But Janet investigates further and discovers that most of the few people being treated quickly die or go even more insane. The novel sheds harsh light on the ease with which the doctor fearlessly turns patients into guinea pigs. Some carnage is necessary from time to time to advance science. Crazy people aren’t what we think, and the sheer determination of Janet, a surgeon who is convinced to work for the common good without an ounce of questioning, is terrifying. So this is patriarchy. the belief of men in power that they are always right. IP:

The Nobel Prize for massacresBy Claudine Demarteau, Éditions Gallimard, Sygne collection, 400 pages, €22.