Tahar Rahim in Monsieur Aznavour, the Callebot exhibition, the novel by Julia Dec… Madame Figaro Cultural Week

Tahar Rahim top the bill

A year before the disappearance, Charles Aznavour revealed PatientsA film by Grand Corps Malade and Mehdi Idir. Always appreciative of new perspectives, the iconic singer tapped the duo to create a biopic about his life. However, the project was suspended after the death of the singer.pick me up. six years later Mr. Aznavour tells the story of the love of the son of Armenian refugees and his youth in love with poverty, his beginnings as a singer with his friend Pierre Roche, his relationship with Edith Piaf, whose confidant and mentor he was, the obstacles he faced. (his disguised voice…) and his phenomenal success, born I already saw myself. “In our title “Sir”, which we wanted to be sober, we hear the greatness of this character. Because, yes, Charles Aznavour was a great man. Author, composer, performer, with an international and enduring career, he is perhaps the greatest holy monster of French song,” explains Grand Corps Malade, who entrusted the lead role with his partner Tahar Rahim. The actor, like the myth, showed an unrelenting desire to master the singer’s gestures and voice. he performs certain iconic titles himself, and the vocal similarity is striking. M.L.

Mr. AznavourBy Mehdi Idir and Grand Corps Malade, with Tahar Rahim, Marie-Julie Baup, Bastien Bouillon, Camille Mutawakil…

Gustave Caillebotte, Men and Places

Do we know today that 70% of Caillebotte’s figure paintings are men, and that he was interested, unlike his colleagues Manet, Degas or Renoir, in the masculine side of modernity? Based on this observation, and in commemoration of the 130th anniversary of the artist’s death (1848-1894), the Musée d’Orsay questions his figures and portraits in the light of a new art historical perspective on 19th-century masculinity.^e century. Built around master paintings – Jthe young man at the window (acquired in 2021 by the J. Paul Getty Museum), Boat party (acquired in 2022 by Orsay thanks to the sponsorship of LVMH) and Paris street, rainy weather– The exhibition features 144 works, lesser-known pastels, studies and preparatory drawings for his most famous works, The Planers: parquet on the head. Both chronological and thematic, the tour is divided into ten rooms: the intimacy of the family and his brothers, city workers, the public space with its passers-by, men on the balcony, indoors or in the naked toilet, sportsmen and boating, portraits of his Parisian friends… In a hollow, Gustave emerges. A versatile portrait of Caillebotte. There are challenges in this genre. LC:

“Walker. Painting Men” until January 19, 2025 at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. musee-orsay.fr:

Mother’s life

“We either think about it or we don’t think about it. I have been thinking about it for thirty years. I’m trying to prepare for it. I try to imagine it, imagine the circumstances through which the inevitable will arise, as if looking at it from all angles will make it better for the worst or just survive it. In April 2022, Julia Deck found her mother lying on the bathroom floor, a victim of a stroke. He also exposes the geriatric services of hospitals, where it is not so much a question of treatment as of “turning the beds” without hope or means, following a process that turns into an absurdity when the patient instead of dying obediently. , against all expectations begins to climb the slope, and that we should start looking for Ehpad. In describing this trying period with lively pen and very British humour, Julia Deck recalls the existence of the woman who gave birth to it. Born into a working-class English family, Anne married and settled in France after studying literature, which allowed her to escape her social class. A mother and daughter share a love of literature and are very much related to each other, while also annoying each other, like all mothers and daughters in the world… The one we have known so far as a novelist (five-pointer, mocker) and a slightly intellectual fiction. literature, Éditions de Minuit obliges, including Vivian Elizabeth Fauville and Monument National) the publishing house changes. With this clever and poignant story, she weaves together chronology, questioning a possible family secret, the veneer of Anne’s existence that cannot be repaired or erased, and the mysteriously illuminating connections between art and life. MTH:

Anne of EnglandJulia Deck, Éditions du Seuil, 256 p., €20.