A new Tartuffe at the Comédie-Française
“22: here comes Molière!”
can we read on the posters of the Comédie-Française plastered in the metro, a way of announcing the season devoted to their boss (400th anniversary of his birth) and the course for modernity.
As we know, masterpieces are eternal and Molière's plays lend themselves to many readings.
It is all the work of the Belgian director Ivo van Hove, who launches the Molière program with a Tartuffe, chic, shock, radical, sulphurous.
First, he opted for the first version,
Tartuffe or the hypocrite
(and not
the impostor
): what in itself creates the event.
Then he explored gray areas and played on all the characters' ambiguities, including sexual orientation.
The actors are brilliant (Christophe Montenez in the title role, Marina Hands in Elmire…).
The decor like a black box and the very present music amplify the dark side of the room.
We are won over by this variation on Tartuffe.
Tartuffe or the hypocrite
, Molière, directed by Ivo Van Hove, Comédie-Française until April 24.
"Su", the installation that puts Le Bon Marché under water
SU (water) Mehmet Ali Uysal
, at the Bon Marché Rive Gauche, until February 20.
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Every year for the past seven years, Le Bon Marché has offered carte blanche to an artist.
The only constraint: white, which symbolizes the DNA of the department store since it was its founders, the Boucicauts, who imagined the month of White.
We remember the kites of Ai Wei Wei, the intertwined threads of Chiharu Shiota, the arrows and the target of Prune Nourry.
This year, it is Turkish Mehmet Ali Usyal's turn to take over the spaces.
The artist wondered about the power of nature, global warming and the natural disasters it causes.
He also remembered the great flood of 1910 in Paris.
Su
(water in Turkish) is divided into three installations: icebergs submerged under the glass roof, a boat like Noah's ark as a refuge and aquatic paintings in the windows for any preamble.
Powerful and poetic.
SU (water) Mehmet Ali Uysal
, at Bon Marché Rive Gauche, until February 20
Carla Bruni in one of the magazine "Egoïste"
Carla Bruni in one of the magazine
Egoïste
.
paolo roversi
The very chic and legendary magazine by Nicole Wisniak, founded in 1977, is back on newsstands.
This time, she wears Number 19 and shows a Carla Bruni with a wide capeline that hides her breast like a heroine of Molière.
Selfish
made his debut with Helmut Newton, soon joined by Guy Bourdin or Richard Avedon.
Today, Paolo Reversi signs the pictures of La Bruni (who will be in concert on January 26 at the Olympia) and the delicate Nine d'Urso.
The texts are by Philippe Besson, Nicolas Bedos, Marc Lambron or even Philippe Sollers who taunts the obscenity of our time.
Faithful to its charter,
Selfish
always has the same format, huge, the same model, classic, the same advertisements, exclusive, the same black and white photos, contrasting, the same humor, quirky and the same elegance, legendary.
Selfish N°19.
Ennio Morricone, the maestro of westerns
Ennio Morricone, Film Soundtracks, Universal.
Unmusic
The harmonica played by Charles Branson in
Once upon a time in the west
by Sergio Leone, a theme by Ennio Morricone, resonates in the ears of all moviegoers of the generation of Thierry Frémaux or Thierry Marx, not insensitive either to the neckline of Claudia Cardinale's camisole.
For them and for all the others, the second part of the composer's film music (1964-2015) comes out with 14 CDs, 16 hours of music, 310 titles, a 48-page booklet and a preface by Clint Eastwood.
The cinema is also to be listened to...
Ennio Morricone, Film Soundtracks
, Universal
Hors pistes, a multidisciplinary festival at the Center Pompidou
Hors pistes
, 20 January-6 February, at the Center Pompidou.
bill morisson
17th edition for
Hors pistes
(January 20 to February 6), the moving image festival.
On the menu this year: the ages of the image, i.e. the question of obsolescence, the archive, the imprint, the ghost, the resurrection, the passage of time... Without forgetting the fight against discrimination, caricatures or age-related silences.
With a lecture by Tristan Garcia on the disorder of time, a eulogy to old age by Laure Adler, theater with
Les Fortresses
by Gurshad Shaheman, an exhibition entitled
Last Sequence
with works by Bill Morrison and Barbara Hammer, and film screenings by Tonino De Bernardi or Jean-Gabriel Périot.
Off-piste,
January 20-February 6, at the Center Pompidou
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