Thinking about comics at the Angoulême Festival
On the occasion of the global meeting dedicated to the 9e art, leading authors and authors, personalities from publishing, cinema, video games and animation will meet at the major forum “La vie en BD” organized by Point and the Festival. A moment of prospective reflection on the major challenges facing comics, at a time when its economic weight and cultural influence have never been so important, through round tables, the themes of which are as follows:
Thursday January 26
• from 11 am to 12.30 pm Cinema, series, video games, comics: new multi-vector writing. Meeting led by Élise Lépine (Point).
• from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Comics and power: resistance through drawing? Debate moderated by Christophe Ono-dit-Biot (Point).
• 5 pm to 6.30 pm Manga, webtoon, NFT… What future for comics at a time of major digital and economic upheavals? Debate moderated by Olivier Ubertalli (Point).
Friday January 27
• from 2 pm to 3.30 pm Sexuality and comics: can we draw everything? Debate moderated by Romain Brethes (Point).
Also not to be missed at the Festival are the exhibitions dedicated to Six Voyages from Philippe Druillet, to Marguerite Abouet, the screenwriter ofAya of Yopougonto Madeleine Riffaud, heroine of the Resistance, the retrospective dedicated to Julie Doucet, winner of the 2022 Grand Prix, or the presence of Hajime Isayama, the creator of the worldwide successful manga The attack of the Titans.
International Comics Festival from Angouleme. From January 26 to 29, 2023. https://www.bdangouleme.com/
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Questioning the era with “Tàr”
DIn another life, Todd Field was an actor. In Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick’s last film, he played the role of the satanic pianist who opens the doors of a secret orgy to Tom Cruise. Now it floats like a Kubrick perfume in tar, a wildly ambitious film that makes magnificent use of classical music (notably Mahler’s Fifth), an immersion in the complex psychology of a brilliant and perverse, exhilarating and dangerous conductor, played by Cate Blanchett with the mastery that we know him. As with Kubrick, the apparent coldness of the staging, the effect of unreality of certain sequences pushes the viewer to constantly question what he sees. The result is an enthralling and mysterious work which is already considered a classic… and which, after a prize in Venice and a Golden Globe, should win a few Oscars.
“Tar”. Film by Todd Field. With Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss, Noémie Merlant, Mark Strong.READ ALSOHow Cate Blanchett defies the times
Dancing disco with Laurent Garnier
Here is the French pope of the dancefloor again. Saturday January 28, DJ Laurent Garnier looks back on his love of disco in a three-hour set. It has been ten years since he explored this musical style on the turntables and he does so in the style of The Loft parties which punctuated New York nights during the 1970s, a few Parisians perpetuating it today in places kept confidential. Laurent Garnier will be surrounded all night long by DJs from the Loft Babies collective, Danny Fortunato and Antoine Feraud, as well as Franck Roger. The setting where they will perform promises to be grandiose. It is that of the New Station at the Theater of Vitry-sur-Seine, a former freight station of 1,500 m2 completely renovated. Saturday Night Fever!
Reservations on the Nouveau Gare website at the Theatre.
Resist the passage of time with Françoise Cadol
Betty has two secrets. Her name is not “Betty”, but Martine. And, above all, it does not age. She realized this shortly after her thirtieth birthday when a photographer friend offered to shoot her portrait at regular intervals. Where the other models of the artist saw their features grow hollow, year after year, that of Betty remained irresistibly young. Imperceptible at first, the gap between this woman’s appearance and her true age becomes more and more noticeable after 40 years. He will begin to cause her problems when her husband reproaches her for wearing “a face that does not tell their story” and, even worse, when she is taken for the sister and then for the companion of… her son!
Adapted from a beautiful novel by Grégoire Delacourt, this show subtly revisits the myth of eternal youth by pushing Betty to have to choose between being and appearing. It is Françoise Cadol who masterfully adapts and interprets this endearing character. His voice may sound familiar to you. Normal. She has been, for years, the French voice of American actresses Sandra Bullock, Angelina Jolie and Patricia Arquette.
*« The woman who never aged” at the Lucernaire : 53, rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs Paris 6e. Until March 12, Tuesday to Saturday at 9 p.m., Sunday 5:30 p.m. Duration 1 hour 10 minutes.
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Live extraordinary lives in Nîmes
“Our common memories”: we couldn’t find a better theme for the 21ste Nîmes Biography Festival, a reference event to which Point associates. The honorary presidents of this edition, Jean-Pierre Elkabbach and Franz-Olivier Giesbert (in debate Friday January 27, respectively at 3:15 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. at the Théâtre de Nîmes Bernadette-Lafont), have just published Personal Memoirs – The Shores of Memory (Books) for ElkabbachIntimate History of the Ve Republic. Volume 2: The Belle Epoque (Gallimard) for FOG – which also cover the political memory of the country. It will also be a question of common memories, with meetings devoted to Elizabeth II (seen by Jean des Cars), Romain Gary (seen by Kerwin Spire), Ukraine (through the books of Vladimir Fédorovski or Jean-François Colosimo), Céline (through that of Christophe Malavoy), or women and the arts of prehistory (with Pascal Picq). Finally, we will talk about unusual but very original memories with the presentation of the Biography of the Point, Friday 27 at 6 pm at Carré d’art, to Lucie Malbos, the author of Harald à la Dent bleue. Viking, king, Christian, who lifts the veil on the mythical sovereign who is also the inspiration of… Bluetooth!
The 21ste Nîmes Biography Festival, organized by the city in partnership with the Association of Nîmes Booksellers, is held at Carré d’art-Jean-Bousquet from January 27 to 29. https://www.festivaldelabiographie.com/