The film Nosferatu, The Squid Game series, the play Le Soulier de Satin… Madame Figaro cultural week

The return of Dracula

Created by Bram Stoker in 1897. Dracula has always fueled the imagination of filmmakers. If he had to rename it after the rights holders refused to adapt, the German Murnau would thus make him a hero’s hero. Nosferatu Werner Herzog then offered a reading of this classic with Isabelle Ajani and Klaus Kinski in 1979. Forty-five years later, Robert Eggers in turn appropriated the silent and expressionist film.

Newly married to sweet Ellen, Thomas, a notary, is sent to the Carpathians to negotiate a sale with Count Orlok, whose true identity he quickly discovers is the vampire Nosferatu. After drinking his blood, the creature leaves Transylvania to take over Ellen’s soul and body, spreading the plague in his wake.The director well versed in the genre The sorcerer, Lighthouse And Northern man takes the gothic brilliantly, creating an environment that is as chilling as it is hypnotic for this haunting story. Like her character, Lily-Rose Depp literally owns it. M.L.

Nosferatu With Robert Eggers, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgård… Released on December 25.

Squid Game:the phenomenon returns

A Netflix coup, Squid Game hit the platform in 2021 and created a veritable tsunami in the history of fiction. in, raising €33 million.Every day, participants challenge themselves to the death in traditional children’s games… More more violent than the Hunger Games saga or other survival games, Squid Game: unleashed passions and made the lead actors (Lee Yun-jae, Park Hye-soo and Yoon Ho-yeon) international stars. Its global success (111 million views in twenty-seven days, the best start on the American platform) is based on an aesthetic but also a subliminal message: and denouncing the stark gulf between rich and poor.The ninth and final episode of season 1 ends with a cliffhanger de rigeur, he left his audience in suspense.Three years later, a big winner Squid Game: returns to the new 455 player game, this time with a purpose other than looting… The game just started on Netflix. M.G.

Squid Game:season 2, created by Hwang Dong-hyeok. On Netflix.

Monumental shoe to the French

It’s a piece of river The Satin Shoe:By Paul Claudel, as Eric Ruf completes his final year as chief administrator of the Comédie-Française. A seven-hour stage version that he began under arrest with the actors “at the table” … The play in four days, a love drama, written from 1918 to 1924, takes place during the Spanish Renaissance and the conquest of the New World. It tells the story of the absolute and impossible love of Rodrigue and Doña Pruese, an autobiographical theme, a reflection of the love passion that had already inspired the author’s Le Partage de midi in 1905. The Satin Shoe: related to the history of the Comédie-Française. In 1943, during the occupation, Paul Claudel entrusted its creation to Jean-Louis Barot, who staged it at the Salon Richelieu in a shortened version in two parts. Antoine Vitesse, a former administrator of the French, in the Hall of Honor of the Palace of the Popes at the Avignon Festival in 1987, continuously created an almost complete version, starting: which Eric Roof takes over today, after his miracles Per Gyntthe one who likes intercity crossings and “loves the rooms where people grow old”. As usual, he called his accomplice Christian Lacroix, whose costumes are decorations. An ensemble piece that we find, among others, Marina Hands, Dominique Blanc, Didier Sandri, Laurent Stoker, Christophe Montien… for an inexplicable theatrical adventure. LC:

The Satin Shoe:until April 13, at the Comédie-Française in Paris. comedy-française.fr: