2023-07-15 01:30:11
THE MORNING LIST
This week, pop n’ rock with Wham! and AC/DC; journey to the end of the night of the “mitard”, the prison in the prison; India on the verge of global warming; the Congo and its cursed wealth, cobalt, the dark side of the “green” car.
“Wham! » : itinerary of a group from the 1980s
George Michael et Andrew Ridgeley, du groupe Wham ! NETFLIX
Netflix’s “in-house” documentary maker Chris Smith (Tiger King), draws on rarely shown archives to trace the meteoric rise of two childhood friends, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, within Wham! Originally from north London, the two kids make music with their friends in a group called “The Executive”. When, at the end of high school, it’s just them, George and Andrew rename themselves Wham! and it was with a rap mixed with disco (“Wham Rap!”) that the duo, accompanied by their two singers, broke the house in 1983, the year of their appearance on the very popular show “Top of the Pops”, on the BBC. Beyond the Club Med look and the puffy hairstyles, the film has the advantage of never losing sight of the artistic ambitions nurtured by the two friends, who write, compose and even produce their titles.
These ambitions will lead George Michael, more gifted, to take precedence over writing and composition, and Andrew Ridgeley to step aside with a certain elegance. The success of the film is undoubtedly due to its way of seizing, modestly, how the homosexuality that George Michael kept secret for a very long time cemented the friendship between the two men. during the few years that their collaboration lasted. In 1986, the group disbanded and George Michael began a dazzling solo career. It is with great delicacy that the film suggests that the singer, who died in 2016, never quite recovered from this separation. Me. F.
Documentary by Chris Smith (2023, 90 min). On demand on Netflix.
“Mitard, the blind spot”: the prison within the prison
Image taken from the documentary “Mitard, l’angle mort”, directed by Vincent Marcel and Laurence Delleur. CINÉTÉVÉ / ARTE FRANCE
“La Vie en face” sheds light on the gray areas of this tool of repression, humiliation and violence that is the disciplinary district – the “mitard”. A feared place: this is where problem prisoners are placed, considered to be aggressive or violent, locked up alone, with almost no contact with the outside world. A “jail within jail”. The bias of the directors, Vincent Marcel and Laurence Delleur, is to talk about former convicts in the mitard, but also former prison guards and even a prison director (under cover of anonymity). All describe a dark reality, the blows received and given (when it is the guards who speak), the body searches, the feeling of extreme isolation.
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