The most expensive film products, “It’s Paris” series, Gabriella Zalapi’s book… Madame Figaro Culture Week

The fairest of fairy tales

Michelle Hazanavicius has a taste for challenges after the Z series (Cut), the black and white silent film (The artist), the spy parody (OSS 117) or the Nouvelle Vague column ((The Redoubtable)he solves the drawn tale by adapting The most valuable of productsJean-Claude Grumberg’s book. A classic fable with a historical dimension and subtle style, his animated film is set in Poland during World War II. A poor woodcutter, old and childless, picks up a dropped item from a train. “Food,” he thinks, before realizing it’s a child. a little girl is thrown off a deportee’s death train. Despite the reluctance of her anti-Semitic husband, the woman raises the baby as her own by trading goat milk with her ex-soldier with a hollowed-out head. Everyone is attached to this little girl, whose innocence is aside pushes hatred and prejudice in favor of the purest emotions.A moving and transgenerational film that combats oblivion with grace and sensitivity and respects the spirit and purpose of the original work, an edition of which, illustrated by Michel Hazanavicius, is now available in Seville. M.L.

The most expensive of the productsBy Michel Hazanavicius.

this is paris cabaret life

Behind This is ParisFrance 2’s flagship series hides producers Ten percent . This is no longer about the backstage of French cinema, but about the Parisian cabaret, Le Tout-Paris.The head of this old institution, Gaspard Bertil, has no choice but to sell the family establishment. The days of crazy Parisian nights are long gone, and the magazines no longer appeal to many. Unless the rich Jacques Baudry invests to help him create a new show. That we hire his son, an art director interned in a psychiatric hospital… Back This is Parisdirector Marc Fitussi manages to immerse the viewer in an obviously outdated universe while bringing it up to date with a great cast. Alex Lutz proves to be extremely exciting as the stubborn owner who clings to his childhood dreams, Nicolas More (the unforgettable Hervé Ten percent) shines as a whimsical stage genius, and Monica Bellucci reveals an irresistible comedic side as an apprentice revue dancer.Added to this solid trio are Anne Marivin, Charlotte de Turkheim, Dominique Besnehardt, Salome Devels… M.G.

This is ParisCreated by Mark Fitussi, Edgard F. By Grima and Jerome Bruno, with Alex Lutz, Nicolas Mori, Monica Bellucci… From November 27 on France 2 and france.tv

Fun childhood

Grand prize to heroine Madame Figaro for her first novel, Antoniawhich told the story of the liberation of a woman in a loveless marriage to a bourgeois from Palermo in the 1960s, writer and visual artist Gabriella Zalapi follows. Ilaria a child trapped by her father in northern Italy in the 1980s, a little girl who was waiting for her sister was surprised to see her father, who assured her that a family meal would last for two years; the father begins wandering with the child, from auto grills and highway rest stops to seedy hotels, and Ilaria watches his charming actions in front of strangers, when he does not become complicit, although he finds himself lost and lost in the scams he has set up. claiming that they are games. This father, like a “nervous tour guide”, takes him to Trieste and Bologna, drops him off with his sisters, then leaves him with his grandmother, who himself drops him off with a friend, a real one. principles ! – thanks to which Ilaria will discover the sun, the Sicilian countryside and joy. He considers her as a baggage that he does not know what to do with, but which he cannot and does not want to leave because it would mean giving up the one he continues to love, Ilaria’s mother; .. With virtuosity, which is Thanks to its simplicity, its short and precise sentence, the author allows us to see the violence and inconsistency of adults from the point of view of a child. : MTH: