The Apprentice movie, Alvin Ailey’s company, Junior’s album… Madame Figaro cultural week

From Dhoni to Trump

This is the movie that makes Donald Trump shudder, the movie that his administration is threatening to sue for defamation. Unveiled at Cannes 2024, The student paints a stained-glass portrait of the former American president, a candidate for re-election. Everything starts from the 1970s. Donnie is a foolish entrepreneur, humiliated by his father, unable to make himself heard. But his meeting with Roy Cohn, a powerful lawyer in the political sphere, changes his fate. This ruthless teacher gives him three golden rules for making his way among the powerful: always deny, always attack, and never admit defeat, no matter the circumstances. So many directives that guide the former president’s policies, and which director Ali Abbasi questions with a furious rant, with perfectly controlled tone violations. Trump’s stupidity and egocentrism (Sebastian Stan, amazing) obviously makes you laugh (yellow), before his cruelty to his loved ones and his wife, with a spousal rape scene to prove it, is blood-curdling. Jeremy Strong, actor of the series successionHe, in turn, achieves a tour de force, evoking sympathy for Trump’s mentor, who ends up abandoned and humiliated by his foal… ML:.

The studentWith Ali Abbasi, Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong…

Juniore, a retro treasure

“Yéyé noir, French pop and hazy psychology”. The trio Juniore announces the release of their new album, titled: Three, two, one. The restrained tunes of this young Parisian group (with dark fairy tale-creating sixties influences) have crossed the airwaves, original movie soundtracks (Fauverby Vincent Mariette) and supermarket aisles. On vocals, the trio’s founder, Anna Jean, daughter of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio and music-loving mother. Among her extraordinary memories, Anna cherishes her paternal grandmother, Simone, a classical musician, who taught her to play Chopin on an old, tuneless, upright piano “with that funny parlor sound, like Tom Waits,” says the thirty-year-old visual arts graduate. : Armed with her Guild guitar, accompanied by producer-bassist Sami Osta and Swanny Elzingre on drums, Anna Jean creates visual music that allows for any anachronism and back-and-forth in time. Imagination moves without the boundaries of taboos and titles Three, two, one. We have the impression of meeting Marian Faithful, France Gall and Serge Gainsbourg. Boy, Feminist and Feminist, Anna Jean uses her talents to paint a melancholic soundscape pierced by sunbeams and second-rate cheery lyrics. PG:

Three, two, oneThe Phonograph. On October 8, with a concert at La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris.

Alvin Eileen in the program

To see an Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater show is to have a wonderful evening full of joy, beauty, vitality, discover a troupe with absolute technique, endowed with such energy that it makes you want to. to dance In the 1950s in the US, black dancers were not celebrated and were always rejected from major companies. This is without considering the talent and rawness of Alvin Ailey (1931-1989), who discovered his passion for dance after seeing a production of the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo in Los Angeles; he worked with Martha Graham, Jose Limon and decided. In 1958, he founded the first black company in New York. After a seven-year absence from France, this company returned to Paris with Program A of unpublished works and Program B of its greatest hits. In both programs we will be able to (re)discover Disclosureshis symbolic piece. Born in rural Texas, Alvin was impressed by the Baptist masses, joyful and overflowing with song. It was this memory that he was able to convey Disclosures interweaving with virtuosity, sensuality and excitement in paintings that bring back the tragedy and beauty of the black state through a lively and sculptural dance. The feeling is intense. BB:

Alvin Ailey’s American Dance Theater, October 18 to 26, at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. palacedescongresdeparis.com