a disco with Laurent Garnier or a comic strip in Angoulême?
Thinking about comics at the Angoulême Festival
On the occasion of the international meeting dedicated to 9e art, leading authors and authors, personalities from publishing, cinema, video games and animation will meet at the main forum “La vie en BD” organized by Point and the Festival. A moment of expected reflection on the main challenges facing comics, at a time when its economic weight and cultural influence have never been so important, through round tables, whose themes are as follows:
Thursday January 26
• from 11 am to 12.30 pm Cinema, series, video games, comics: new multi-vector writing. Meeting led by Élise Lépine (Point).
• from 2:30 to 3:30 pm Comics and power: resistance through drawing? Debate moderated by Christophe Ono-dit-Biot (Point).
• 5 pm to 6.30 pm Manga, webtoon, NFT… What future for comics in the era of big digital and economic upheavals? Debate moderated by Olivier Ubertalli (point).
Friday January 27
• from 2 pm to 3.30 pm Sexuality and comics: can we draw everything? Debate moderated by Romain Brethes (Point).
The exhibitions offered at the Festival should also not be missed Six Voyages from Philippe Druillet, to Marguerite Abouet, the screenwriter ofAya from Yopougonto Madeleine Riffaud, heroine of the Resistance, the retrospective dedicated to Julie Doucet, winner of the 2022 Grand Prix, or the presence of Hajime Isayama, creator of successful manga worldwide Attack of the Titans.
International Comics Festival from Angouleme. From January 26 to 29, 2023. https://www.bdangouleme.com/
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Asking the weather with “Tàr”
DIn another life, Todd Field was an actor. In Eyes closed, Stanley Kubrick’s last film, he played the role of a satanic pianist who opens the doors of a secret orgy to Tom Cruise. Now it floats like Kubrick perfume Tar, a hugely ambitious film that makes excellent use of classical music (notably Mahler’s Fifth), an immersion into the complex psychology of a brilliant and twisted, hilarious and dangerous conductor, played by Cate Blanchett with the skill we know he. As with Kubrick, the apparent coldness of the performance, the effect of the unreality of certain sequences forces the viewer to constantly question what he is seeing. The result is a fascinating and magical work that is considered a classic… and which, after the Venice prize and a Golden Globe, should win several Oscars.
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Disco dancing with Laurent Garnier
The French pope of the dancefloor is here again. Saturday January 28, DJ Laurent Garnier brings back his love of disco for a three-hour set. Ten years have passed since he explored this musical style on turntables and was doing it in the style of The Loft parties that punctuated New York nights in the 1970s, some Parisians continue it today in places that kept confidential. Laurent Garnier will be surrounded all night by DJs from the Loft Babies collective, Danny Fortunato and Antoine Feraud, as well as Franck Roger. The setting in which they will perform is promising. It is at the New Theater Station of Vitry-sur-Seine, a former freight station 1,500 m2 fully furnished. Saturday Night Fever!
Reservations on the Nouveau Gare website at the Theatre.
Fight the passage of time with Françoise Cadol
Betty has two secrets. Her name is not “Betty”, but Martine. And best of all, it never gets old. He realized this after his thirtieth birthday when a photographer friend offered to take his picture regularly. Where other artist models have seen their features deepen year after year, Betty has remained irresistibly young. At first, imperceptible, the gap between the appearance of this woman and her real age becomes more noticeable after 40 years. She will start causing problems for him when his wife scolds him for wearing “looks that don’t tell their story” and, even worse, when he is taken for the sister and then for the companion of.. .his son!
Adapted from a beautiful novel by Grégoire Delacourt, this show subtly revisits the myth of eternal youth by pushing Betty to choose between being and showing. Françoise Cadol perfectly adapts and interprets this charming character. His voice may be familiar to you. Normal. He was, for many years, the French voice of American actresses Sandra Bullock, Angelina Jolie and Patricia Arquette.
*« The woman who never ages” in Lucernaire : 53, rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs Paris 6e. Until March 12, Tuesday to Saturday at 9 pm, Sunday 5:30 pm Duration 1 hour 10 minutes.
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Live extraordinary lives in Nîmes
“Our common memories”: we couldn’t find a better theme for the 21ste Nîmes Biography Festival, a reference event where Point comrades. The honorary presidents of this edition, Jean-Pierre Elkabbach and Franz-Olivier Giesbert (in the debate on Friday January 27, respectively at 3:15 pm and 4:15 pm at the Théâtre de Nîmes Bernadette-Lafont), have -published Personal Memoirs – The Shores of Memory (Books) for ElkabbachIntimate History of Ve Republic. Volume 2: The Belle Epoque (Gallimard) for FOG – which also encompasses the country’s political memory. It will also be a question of common memories, with meetings dedicated to Elizabeth II (seen by Jean des Cars), Romain Gary (seen by Kerwin Spire), Ukraine (through the books of Vladimir Fédorovski or Jean-François Colosimo ), Céline ( by Christophe Malavoy), or women and the arts of prehistory (with Pascal Picq). Finally, we will talk about the unusual but very original memories of the presentation of the Biography of point, Friday 27 at 6 pm in the Carré d’art, with Lucie Malbos, the author of Harald à la Dent bleue. Viking, king, Christian, lifting the veil on the mythical sovereign also inspired by… Bluetooth!
The 21e The Nîmes Biography Festival, organized by the city in collaboration with the Association of Nîmes Booksellers, will be held in the Carré d’art-Jean-Bousquet from January 27 to 29. https://www.festivaldelabiographie.com/
