Youthful smile, almost childish, and metallic gaze.
Colorful and passionate culture, on the one hand.
Self-control and rationality, on the other.
Bruno Patino is a strange bird.
A fifty-something with the look of a clergyman who wears sneakers and drinks hot chocolate (he never drinks alcohol).
A digital enthusiast who will look only once, and furtively, at his phone when his ringtone - Latin music - rings during the interview he granted us in a hotel on rue des Saints-Pères, in Paris, adjoining its publishing house.
President of Arte
“since June 22, 2020 at 7:12 p.m.”
(sic)
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Patino does not however have much to do with the caricature of the cold and elitist technocrat, draped in an excluding knowledge, that we expected to meet.
He is above all a curious being who ignites like a fire in the pan when one evokes the subjects which animate him.
A television UFO which, after the success of its previous work, has just published a new book on the influence…
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