"We're not in Nablus. We won't be able to work as usual. The tone for Fauda Season 4 is set. "Fauda"? In Arabic, it means "chaos". But it's now the name of a shocking and well-researched action series ranked by the New York Times as number 8 of the 30 best world series of the decade. Centered on the actions of an Israeli Mista'arvim unit, a commando whose specificity is to infiltrate its members into the Arab population of the Occupied Territories, it benefits from the experience in this field of its duo of creators: Lior Raz, ex-member of the Israeli special forces, and also main actor of the series with the false airs of Bruce Willis, and Avi Issacharoff, former investigative journalist for Haaretz. After three years of absence, here they are back on the job for a new season more breathtaking than ever since the band of Eli and Doron is sent to Belgium, to Molenbeek, to save their leader Gabi kidnapped by Hezbollah, before an incursion of all dangers into Lebanon, not without also having to face their inner (and often marital) storms. remotely controlled by a high-tech arsenal), the series is also an excellent tool for understanding the twists and turns of the geopolitics of this Orient that is decidedly still just as complicated.
"Fauda", 4 seasons on Netflix.
It's a holiday film where the sun competes with melancholy, a childhood story revisited with the bitter lucidity of adulthood. Sophie (Celia Rowison-Hall), in her early twenties, is haunted by a vacation in Turkey with her father, Calum (Paul Mescal), the summer she was ten. Aftersun takes us on a journey through his Super-16 memories and takes us on Sophie's frantic quest to unlock the secrets of Calum, this father who was so young and so loving, yet inhabited by an unspeakable pain in life. The Scottish Charlotte Wells signs a breathtaking debut film of grace that stays with the viewer long after its first viewing, a dizzying film that questions the mystery of childhood, memories and beings that we love without really knowing them. It also offers Paul Mescal, the Irish actor discovered in the Normal People series, the opportunity to confirm the extent of his talent. Quivering with sensitivity, he fully deserved his nomination for the Best Actor Oscar.
« Aftersun », de Charlotte Wells, avec Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Celia Rowison-Hall, Sally Messham.
It's a family out of a fairy tale or a thriller: the father, Wandel, his two daughters Hilde and Bolette, their young "stepmother" Ellida and the ghost of the deceased first wife, as evanescent and pervasive as the damp mist. which rises continuously from the fjord and floats, worrying, in this house far from everything… So much for the family configuration. But you also have to reckon with the sea… The sea, very close and without surf, which bathes the steep banks of the fjord, a stagnant water in which Ellida persists in taking baths which hardly comfort her. And the other, the real one, the distant one, the wild one, the one that sometimes brings heavy boats from the antipodes to the shores of this peaceful hamlet, the sea of shipwrecks and adventure that irresistibly attracts the young bride . Two seas. Two mothers. Directed by Géraldine Martineau, Ibsen's drama, written in 1888 while Freud was leading his psychoanalytic revolution, has never been so beautiful, so magnetic as on the set of the Vieux Colombier. Interpreted, in a setting of great poetry, by the best - Laurent Stocker, Benjamin Lavernhe, Alain Lenglet, Géraldine Martineau herself who makes an unforgettable Ellida -, it reveals without ever highlighting the prodigious, almost supernatural forces of the unconscious. And above all tells, in an incredibly visionary way, the feminist fight of an Ellida who, freed by her husband, finally chooses her destiny freely. Magnificent.
"The Lady of the Sea", by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Géraldine Martineau, at the Vieux Colombier theater until March 12.
While waiting for the opening to the public of the house where he lived, rue de Verneuil in Paris, Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991) is the subject of a fine exhibition at the Beaubourg Public Information Library (BPI). The ties between the artist and the Center Pompidou are strong since it is from its collections that Gainsbourg borrowed Claude Lalanne's Man with a Cabbage Head, which inspired him to create a mythical album in 1976. Through 150 personal objects lent by his daughter, Charlotte, and which will constitute the collection of the future museum which will be dedicated to her, this retrospective insists on the process of creation of the 550 songs which he composed in thirty years. It details his literary tastes and explores his penchant for self-destruction as well as his obsession with the figure of the evil double. The opportunity for fans to learn a lot about the genesis of certain hits.
"Serge Gainsbourg, the exact word", exhibition at the BPI until May 8.
A crazy day that will actually last 5 days for this 2023 vintage. And like a snub, this 29th edition becomes an "ode to the night". 270 concerts bringing together 1,900 artists for 140,000 tickets available, all under the artistic direction of René Martin. A very wide and accessible program with many free concerts or at controlled prices. Insomnia, nightmares, religious ceremonies, parties and even lullabies with concerts for babies... We find everything that makes our nights with the added bonus of the arrival of great performers, promising artists and curiosities such as Vexations d' Erik Satie – a piano piece which consists of playing the same motif 840 times, its execution oscillating between 14 and 35 hours, which makes it the longest piano work in history – this Wednesday, February 1, it will be played every 15 minutes in 60 SNCF stations. In the moonlight, but not only.
