Album by Thomas Dutronc, film about Iran, essay by Justin Augier… Madame Figaro Culture Week

Heart strings

Seventeen years ago, Thomas Dutronc discovered his vocation as a singer-songwriter by releasing his first pop album, Like a gypsy without a guitarcertified double diamond disc. The critically acclaimed album revealed Django Reinhardt as a singer and guitarist with a penchant for improvisation, who was capable of writing lyrics full of humor and lightheartedness. Since then, the son of Françoise Hardy and Jacques Dutron has established himself in the music scene with his style and original songs. after Forever until tomorrowA third project of darker songs recorded in London, released in 2015, the singer collected covers of Edith Piaf and Charles Train (collected in French, double platinum disc) and multiplied duets with his father (Dutronc & Dutronc). At the age of 51, Thomas Dutron publishes one of his best albums. Titled: It’s never too lateThis collection of 13 minor songs is shot through with a delicate dance melancholy that evokes the musical flavor of Henri Salvador. Like “little joys” distilled over four sensitive chords, the titlesIt’s never too late a tribute to friendship and human warmth. Among the gems are solos by gypsy guitarist Stochelo Rosenberg, with whom Thomas Dutronk has collaborated for over twenty years. PG:
It’s never too lateUniversal. on September 17 at La Cigale concert hall in Paris.

Intimate Politics in Iran

Summer 2022: Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof is imprisoned as the uprising in Iran spreads with the Women, Life, Freedom movement. “I followed the social changes from inside the prison along with other political prisoners,” he recalls. As the protests grew to an unexpected scale, we were stunned by the scale of the protests and the courage of the women.” Four years later Satan does not existthe script Wild fig seeds arises. Filmed secretly in the land of the mullahs and informed by event archives, this semi-closed session tells the story of the aftermath of a rebellion within a family. The father, a newly appointed investigative judge by Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, is pitted against his two daughters, students who are determined to jump on the chain of advancement, while the mother seeks grounds for reconciliation. And the protest filmmaker belies a long domestic downfall that gradually turns into a thriller with chases and kidnappings. This powerful and hopeful film, which won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes this year, confirms: it is the youth that will free Iran from oppression. M.L.
Wild fig seedsWith Mohammad Rasulof, Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki, Misagh Zareh, Soheila Golestani…

Dirty business

Winner of the 2023 Heroin-Madame Figaro Grand Prix Believe itJustin Augier has an equally admirable essay on the power of literature Legal entitydedicated to cement manufacturer Lafarge, which continued to operate its factory in Jalabiya until September 2014, disregarding the safety of its Syrian employees and doing business with the Islamic State without hesitation. The executives paid more than $15 million to ISIS and several other terrorist groups in ransom and right of passage, while also asking to block rival Turkish Cement… Back to this scandal that was revealed in 2016. Published in Le Monde, Dorothée-Myriam Kellou, Justine Ogier, traces the unscrupulous actions of managers who refused to part with their precious investments, as well as the horror and bitterness of Syrian employees forced to slyly flee while migrants were forced to. was evacuated. It also refers to the unprecedented enterprise of young female lawyers, lawyers and practitioners who are challenging prestigious companies with vast resources to do their duty to Lafarge, accused of financing terrorism, putting others at risk and complicity. in crimes against humanity. The Everest-like legal and court battle began in 2017, and which seems to have no end, when the company in the United States settled and paid a fine of about 778 million dollars. Meeting with all, examining each letter and letter, dissecting the law’s claims and interpretations, Justin Ogier weaves all the threads with as much intelligence and thoroughness as humanity into an essay that reads like a thriller and a door; Believe itan imprint of absolute faith in the devotion of some when many others choose denial or indifference. MTH:
Legal entityby Justine Augier, Éditions Actes Sud, 288 p., €22.