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Exploring horror with del Toro
Okay, Halloween is over, but will you get a little dose of chills? Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities features the Mexican director, to whom we owe several masterpieces of genre cinema (The Devil’s Backbone, Pan’s Labyrinth, Crimson Peak…), open for us, in the introduction to each episode of this series, the drawers of the strange. On the model of Alfred Hitchcock in Alfred Hitchcock presents, cult horror series from the 1950s, it takes us into independent stories, directed by eight different directors, exploring all the gamuts of horror. fiercely vintage, often filmed behind closed doors, they take us from the storage room where a demon trapped by a Nazi waits to be woken up at the lost house on an island where a little deceased is seeking eternal rest. Cronenbergian body-horror, bloody silhouettes, jump scares, rats that eat human flesh (phobics will get their money’s worth), adaptations of Wilde, Lovecraft or the lesser-known MR James, these little serial jewels of high Gothic culture handle the strange, humorous, gore, poetry. Do you dare to give in to curiosity?
On Netflix
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Treat yourself to a little Masquerade
Ascam, betrayal, sex and champagne under the sun of the Côte d’Azur which turns dark blue: Nicolas Bedos serves us an explosive cocktail which fills all the boxes of jubilant black comedy with characters devoid of any morality. It’s all lies, pretences and blackmail in the worst of worlds. Isabelle Adjani sees “a world of bastards” there. Not one to save the other! There is a young gigolo (Pierre Niney), maintained by an untamed shrew (Isabelle Adjani) whom he cheats on with a fearless escort (Marine Vacth). Their plan? Finding and ripping off the ideal pigeon (François Cluzet). Obviously, this little game is dangerous and causes a lot of victims. It’s funny, lively, cruel, absolutely cynical and has a top-notch cast.
Indoors.
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“Abolish the Sky” with Galileo
You absolutely have to see or see this show again, put on in 2019 by Éric Ruf and taken to the Richelieu room until the beginning of December, for the incredible performance of two of its actors. The masterful Hervé Pierre, first, who with his ogre voice embodies a Galileo full of scope and gluttony, opposing his joie de vivre and his playful curiosity to the icy pettiness of the Church people who restrain him. And the young Jean Chevalier, finally, who plays his pupil Andréa with incredible candor and naturalness. Bertolt Brecht’s text is austere, but Éric Ruf’s staging and scenography give it the breath it sometimes lacks, and then there are the beautiful sets and dazzling costumes by Christian Lacroix. Oh, to see those little bishops in crimson ball gowns twirling around like somersaults on stage, what a joy!
The Life of Galileoby Bertolt Brecht, directed by Éric Ruf, until December 4 at the Comédie-Française
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Enjoy Houellebecq in comics
Adapt Michel Houellebecq into a comic strip? A perilous project, not to say impossible. It therefore needed an adaptation that resembles “not much known” to use the words of the novelist. A bet taken up, and brilliantly, by an unknown neophyte in the field, the architect Louis Paillard. From his friendship with Houellebecq was born this crazy idea to transform The Map and the territory in comics. And what a cartoon!
The sentimental, family and professional adventures of Jed, the successful contemporary artist who in the novel sympathizes with Houellebecq himself, are presented in an Italian format and read like a calendar. The boards, often saturated with text and which are linked vertically, marry multiple styles, like a graphic kaleidoscope which would revisit the comic strip of the XXe century. And not only. Paillard slips cheerfully from a Hergé style to a tribute to the graphic punk bazooka commando, passing through pages that evoke, between reverence and pastiche, David Hockney or Gérard Fromanger. A wonderful book, which even manages the feat of reinventing the Houellebecquian world.
The Map and the territory by Michel Houellebecq and Louis Paillard (Flammarion), 160 pages, 28.90 euros
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Witness the return of the Phoenix
More than 20 years after his formation at Versailles, Phoenix still has as much pleasure to find himself on stage to interpret his skipping hits (“If I Ever Feel Better”, “Lisztomania”, “Ti Amo”, “1901”…) and in the studio to create haunting new electro-pop-disco melodies, like those of their new opus Alpha Zulu (more information to follow on Friday on the website of the Point) that make us take off like a bird. Alpha Zulu are the words of an airplane pilot on his radio, while his plane was in the middle of a storm. In this time of anxiety-provoking instability, they resonate and reassure like a beacon to cling to in order to forget everything. The only French rock band to be a hit abroad, the quartet never disappoints. Recorded in full confinement at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, this fourth opus is a monument.
Alpha Zulu (released November 4 on Loyalty/A+LSo/Glassnote Records). In concert on November 28 and 29 at the Olympia (Paris)