Film, play, novel. This week’s editorial staff’s top things to watch and read.
Joel Pommerat is released Marius
Pommerat’s theater is unique in that it is opposed to the Cartesian spirit, “what is well thought out is clearly said.” Ambiguity insists on this refractory poet, confusion among the audience. It is not for nothing that his company is called Louis Brouillard. For him, reality is not Manichean. The proof. Love his spectacles The reunification of the two Koreas, Would be nice to have (1) The End of Louis Or Tales and legends… Alongside these intimate and impressive pieces, he masterfully reinterpreted children’s stories such as: The red hat, Cinderella Or Pinocchio. This time it is a lesser-known aspect of his work that the 2024 autumn festival brings to the fore.Joel Pommerat has worked with long-term prisoners in Arles Central Prison for a decade Mariushis latest work, inspired by the work of Pagnol, explores the theme of escape. Directly from his long work in prison, Pagnol’s text, set in today’s Marseille, asks important questions: How to succeed in life? Is love possible? Do we have to choose the option of work with Pommerat? LC:
MariusBy Joel Pommerat, November 29 to December 8 at MC93, Bobigny (mc93.com).
Never without my daughter
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Four years ago, Guillaume Senez offered Romain Duris one of his most beautiful scores Our battlesa touching portrait of a father forced to rethink his life with his children after his wife leaves.The director and the actor collaborate again Missing partAnother story about fatherhood. The actor plays a French taxi driver in Tokyo. Separated from his daughter’s Japanese mother for nine years and with no shared custody in Japan (until the recent law), he never got to see his child again. One day, by chance, he gets into his taxi… Departing from postcards by Guillaume Senez. is a life in the Japanese metropolis between road wanderings, monastic solitude and associative meetings (for parents of removed children). the language and codes of this country responsible for the misfortune, his hero, ready to make any sacrifice for a few stolen moments with his daughter, finds a suitable translator in Romain Duris shows a little-known reality in the Empire of the Rising Sun. M.L.
Missing partBy Guillaume Senez, with Romain Duris, Judith Chemla, May Sirnet-Massucci…
Injury and resilience
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A slap. This novel, a bestseller in Italy, is one of the most successful novelistic attempts at the currently ubiquitous subject of sexual harassment. The story of Marisa, who finds herself pregnant and dumped in Rome in the 1950s, and ends up falling in love with the “good boy” her parents throw into her arms to cover up the scandal; of his daughter Betta, raped and murdered on the beach one summer evening, who, by losing her life, changes the lives of others; Miriam, who was with Beta that terrible night, who said nothing, and whom silence is slowly but surely destroying. News, social news, ambitious literary research that accurately describes the emergence of the predator, the destruction of body and soul, the fear and grief, the extent of denial, the cowardice and fear of what people will say, but also the love that only can save. . The male presences that fill the book are also divided into three. those unknown and terrifying, aggressors, institutional representatives (investigator, judge, lawyer), incompetent, corrupt or simply oppressed; And then there are the good men, the ones who are friends before they are lovers, the ones who are often ignored by women because they are reserved, clumsy, insecure. The writing feeds, always serves the heroes, the suspense on every page. It’s about understanding this rape culture at its deep roots and understanding the suffering of the victims, which is still largely underestimated.On this very topic, only words can really do the job. IP:
The life that remainsby Roberta Recchia, Éditions Istya & Cie, 397 p., €22. Translated by Elsa Damien.
Source: Le Figaro
