In the small town of New Jersey where she grew up, the young Patricia Smith dreamed of reading the
Illuminations,
by Arthur Rimbaud.
Now 75 years old, the rock star is celebrated like a Madonna in France.
The United States remembers her only for the hit
Because the Night
, offered by Bruce Springsteen in 1978.
To discover
The Nutcracker,
considered racist, will he survive the era of "cancel culture?"
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Patti Smith: "To be free, that requires a lot of effort"
Born artist, poet by vocation, Patti Smith became a singer by necessity.
And New Yorker by obligation.
This new documentary,
Patti Smith, the poetry of punk
, by Sophie Peyrard and Anne Cutaia, tells it with passion, gluttony and forceful archival images.
Such a unique life, tinged with encounters and an intact appetite for life.
From Robert Mapplethorpe, with whom she lives a passionate love, to Fred "Sonic" Smith, her husband guitar hero, through the playwright Sam Shepard, she has always been the equal of the men whose lives she has shared.
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The Year of the Monkey: the poetic wanderings of Patti Smith
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magazine critic
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