2023-07-29 01:00:10
THE MORNING LIST
This week, music, with a portrait of the singer of the Beach Boys and software that makes rappers sing; and history with a little-known episode of the Korean War and the adventure of Les Halles de Paris.
“Brian Wilson, impeded genius of the Beach Boys”, Icarus of seaside melodies
Brian Wilson, leader of the Beach Boys, directs from the control room the recording of the album “Pet Sounds”, in 1966, in Los Angeles. MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIVE / GETTY IMAGES
Initially a symbol of recklessness, the Californian pop of the Beach Boys was enriched by a creativity and a spleen nourished by their leader, Brian Wilson. This is what emerges from the portrait produced by Christophe Conte, journalist at Release and former pillar of Unbreakable, which describes the rise and fall of this Icarus of seaside melodies. His film recalls how the music of the “beach boys” was first that of a sibling, before Brian Wilson got caught up in the game of pop competition, to the point of abandoning the tours to devote himself to production. . Testimonials and archives thus revive the frenzy of the recording of the album Pet Sounds (1966), or the experimental apotheosis of Good Vibrations.
Before seeing the genius tip over into the psychedelic abyss of a project, Smile, undermined by LSD and the anguish of not being up to the Beatles – an ordeal recounted with sensitivity by his ex-wife, Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford. We witness the disintegration of the group, punctuated by last bursts of inspiration (Surf’s Up et’To You Die, in 1971) until a spatiotemporal leap (a bit brutal) on his rebirth in the 1990s and 2000s, paradoxically, by playing his creations live. S. D.
Documentary by Christophe Conte (Fr., 2023, 55 min). On Arte.tv until November 17.
“The Ghosts of the Korean War”, in search of three French soldiers
Image taken from Serge Tignères’ documentary “The Ghosts of the Korean War”. GEDEON PROGRAMS
As the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War is celebrated, which, from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953, caused more than 2 million victims, rare are the French television documents devoted to this conflict, which nevertheless almost lead to a third world war. After Korea, our forgotten soldiersby Cédric Condon and Jean-Yves Le Naour, in 2016, and Korea, an endless warby John Maggio, in 2017, which reminds us that we are still waiting for a peace treaty, this unpublished is devoted to the story of Roland Vassort, Joseph Massin and Claude-Bernard Pous, three French soldiers who died on October 6, 1952 and whose the bodies were never found.
Director Serge Tignères sheds light on this conflict in his own way. With the help of testimonies from veterans, reconstructed battle scenes and American archives, we plunge into the hell of the outpost of Arrow Head, continuously bombarded by Chinese artillery, before being overwhelmed by the assault waves. And if the film leans a little too long on genetic research or excavations organized on site, the portraits of Vassort, Massin and Pous, all three volunteers, are fascinating. A. Ct
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