Jennifer Lopez, in all her splendor
J.Lo wants to remind us that the glamor of Hollywood and the glitz of the music industry from Prince's glory days are not about to collapse.
The global superstar, buoyed by his extraordinary success (80 million albums sold and 18 billion views for his music videos), is launching a monumental campaign for the release of his new album with the eloquent title:
This Is Me… Now.
Jennifer Lopez's first studio album since
Aka
, released almost ten years ago, this autobiographical story retraces twenty years of the career and personal journey of the singer and actress of Puerto Rican origin.
A fusion of incendiary rhythms from RnB, rap, pop and hip-hop, the single
This Is Me… Now
, which carries the record, is undoubtedly one of Jennifer Lopez's most sincere and incisive pieces to date.
Both moving and full of self-irony, in the music video for
Can't Get Enough
, J.Lo stages her fairy tale (she married actor Ben Affleck in 2022) in the tone of parody , and sings in a wedding dress in a setting reminiscent of the
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
– a reference that is dear to her.
This aural and visual feast serves as a musical prelude to a resounding feature film, directed by Dave Meyers, Ben Affleck and the singer herself, entitled
This Is Me… Now
, the film (on Amazon's Prime Video platform, the February 16).
Intimate, thoughtful, sexy and funny, this double bill reveals a formidable performer and embodies the perfect American dream.
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Such a sweet look
Lydie, photo by Anne Rearick in the Basque Country.
Anne Rearick, courtesy Galerie Clementine de la Feronniere 2
Anne Rearick, born in 1960 in Idaho, belongs to the great tradition of American documentary photography, that which works on long-term subjects and which deepens its relationship with people and places over time.
In the United States, in the townships of South Africa, in the French Basque Country, in Perche and even in Kazakhstan, Anne Rearick's photos celebrate the daily life of these worlds.
Working on film, in black and white, she makes her own enlargements and has worked for the Vu agency since 1993. “She lets everyone express themselves in turn with looks, poses, gestures, movement and she reconnects precisely with this profoundly humanist photography which never looks at its navel, which does not seek its ego or its identity but goes to meet the other, its equal,” says Christian Caujolle, founder of the Vu agency.
His new Parisian exhibition at the Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière shows portraits like Renaissance Madonnas, agricultural scenes like compositions by Millet or landscapes like something out of American cinema.
When reality becomes a symbol.
L.C.
“Anne Rearick”, until March 9 at the Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, in Paris.
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A story of transmission by Thomas Schlesser
The Eyes of Mona, by Thomas Schlesser, Éditions Albin Michel, 496 p., €22.90.
Press.
The first sentence: “Everything became dark.
It was like a mourning garment.”
The author.
This true “one-man band” directs the Hartung-Bergman foundation, he is also a teacher at the École Polytechnique, organizes performances around memory (his is prodigious) and hosted a program on gardening on
Radio Nova
.
In 2013, following an intimate tragedy, the loss of a child, he began writing this novel, with a little girl and a grandfather as characters.
A great way to pay tribute to his grandmother who taught him so many things about life.
The story: at 10 years old, Mona risks losing her sight.
Doctors advise her family to send her to a child psychiatrist to face this terrible ordeal.
But her grandfather, whom she calls Dadé, has a much better idea.
Every Wednesday, he invites her to go and discover a work of art in a museum.
And here is a beautiful adventure that begins, on the way to the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay or the Center Pompidou facing the works of Vermeer, Goya, Courbet, Turner, Frida Kahlo or Van Gogh... Wonderful visits to discover the beauties and the colors of the world, and discovering yourself.
This rich novel is at the same time a tender tale, a beautiful story of transmission, a precious guide on the art and the secret of paintings, supplemented by a reflection on life, love, friendship, courage or resilience.
Most.
All you have to do is unfold the cover of the book to see the fifty-two paintings that Mona discovers with her grandfather.
Les Yeux de Mona
is also published in large print and in Braille, by Éditions Voir deprès.
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The Eyes of Mona
, by Thomas Schlesser, Éditions Albin Michel, 496 p., €22.90.