Consult with Doctor Dayan
QWhether or not you enjoyed season 1, you will, we guarantee it, love finding the psychologist Philippe Dayan in season 2 ofIn therapy, a thousand times more successful than the first. The actor Frédéric Pierrot is still as extraordinary as an overwhelmed and ultra-intuitive analyst. But his new patients are truer, more endearing, more subtle than those of the first season. They are mainly embodied by unforgettable actors (special mention to Jacques Weber, who embodies an over-anxious boss not inclined to introspection) and staged, under the leadership of Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, by the cream of the French directors (Arnaud Desplechin, Agnès Jaoui, Emmanuel Finkiel, Emmanuelle Bercot). Add to that the look of the “real” shrink Serge Hefez, who was hired by the production to bring the series towards more analytical verisimilitude, and you will get 35 episodes almost behind closed doors which are viewed one after the other as one would swallow a packet of candy… Ready for a sleepless night?
In therapy, on Arte on Thursdays at 8:55 p.m. from April 7 to May 19. Both seasons are also available in full on Arte.tv
Fill up on contemporary art
On the Solo Show side, we go from Jean-Michel Blais to Ernest Pignon-Ernest, via the South African Zanele Muholi. The contemporary African scene is also more and more present at Art Paris, but, to find out more about the latest trends in the creation of the continent and its diasporas, a single address: Christie’s, where, for the second year, Touria El Glaoui presents the Parisian edition of her London contemporary art fair 1.54 (which also has branches in Morocco and New York): from the classic Seydou Keïta to the youngest talents, Emily Moore (DADA Gallery), Aboudia (Jack Bell Gallery), Adesina Adegboyega (The Breeder),
without forgetting the discussions of the Forum.
1.54, Christie’s, from April 7 to 10. 9 BC Matignon, 75008 Paris, France
Capture the moment with Lara Micheli
Under the beautiful name of “Extrasystoles”, by which we designate an unplanned pulsation, an additional heartbeat, Lara Micheli exhibits in Paris her photographs as poetic as they are disturbing. Here, children play peacefully on the beach? Yes, but around the body of a dead dolphin, stranded on the sand by who knows what disruption of its ecosystem. There, the image of a successful breakfast with coffee and perfect grapefruit? Yes, but enhanced with an inscription that instills doubt in the cliché of happiness: ” Mama needs a Xanax. “Tragic? Lucid, rather, on the life that passes and of which it is important for the young artist (born in 1990) to fix the moments when precisely an additional heartbeat is offered, as in front of these immersed bodies captured with the Polaroid in a golden light . We think of a pagan Bill Viola or a Sally Mann in color. One thinks of all the attempts of humans to stop time before the inevitable, here conjured up by the grace of a moment.
« Extrasystoles », Lara Micheli exhibition. Salon H, 6-8 rue de Savoie, 75006 Paris. https://salonh.fr/salon/ Until April 30, 2022
Calm your fever with Pete Doherty
Did he free himself from his demons? Pete Doherty, the former leader of the cult The Libertines, has teamed up with arranger and multi-instrumentalist Frédéric Lo, who has in the past sublimated the compositions of Daniel Darc and Alex Beaupain, to offer a collection of pop songs. appeased. Registered as an autarky in a Norman mansion in 2020, at the time of world confinements, The Fantasy Life of Poetry & Crime has the appearance of an intimate record, with acoustic instruments and hovering strings, ideal for locking yourself away from the world. A cuddly album? Certainly, but certain titles, behind their apparent sweetness, deploy an emotional power that one imagines resonating in the heart of a stadium (“The Ballad Of”). Timeless, free from geographical divides and the weight of heritage, the songs simultaneously evoke the songwriting of Bob Dylan, the great hours of English pop, but also a certain French romantic sensibility. A sumptuous disc, which lightens the spirit and warms the heart.
Pete Doherty & Frédéric Lo, The Fantasy Life of Poetry & Crime (Virgin Records)
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Return to the benches of “the school … of women”
It’s a small wooden cabin that looks like a music box. A ballerina emerges who mechanically performs several turns on herself. The young woman who appears on stage is named Agnès. She lives in this isolated house, recluse by Arnolphe, who hopes to keep her in crass ignorance in order to make her a submissive wife. But love cannot be commanded and foolishness is not inevitable! At a time when the Taliban are denying young girls access to education, it is an understatement to say that L‘women’s school rings strangely in our ears. It is all the talent of Anthony Magnier to offer us a staging that insists on the modernity of this play by Molière.
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If he scrupulously respects the text, the founder of the Viva company has fun inserting between the scenes winks to the commedia dell’arte but also to the world of cartoons by Tex Avery which allow young audiences to get into this great comedy classic. Although created in 1662, this piece has not aged a bit. Mikaël Fasulo embodies a diabolically misogynistic Arnolphe that we could come across today. Eva Dumont and Agathe Boudrières (alternating) duplicate each other and the public sees nothing of it. Alternately Agnès and Georgette (irresistible servant), a simple mask and a wig are enough for them to embody these two characters. Victorien Robert and Matthieu Hornuss, who each week share the roles of Horace, the seducer, and the valet Alain, complete this outstanding cast. A tremendous success.
Women’s school at the Lucernaire theatre, 53, rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Paris 6e. Until May 29.
Laugh with God
Marie and Claude Verneuil, in other words Chantal Lauby and Christian Clavier, are back. The sons-in-law and the in-laws also in this third part ofWhat have we all done to God?which makes us laugh as much as the previous ones. We therefore find the multicolored Verneuil family and this good town of Chinon in new adventures where, as it should be, the Good Lord, like the always present priest, cannot do much. For Claude and Marie Verneuil’s 40th wedding anniversary, their daughters (Almice David replaces Julia Piaton) decide to organize a surprise party in the family home. The in-laws have made the trip and the trouble begins. There are new faces: the Jews Daniel Russo and Nanou Garcia do not stop flouring themselves, Farida Ouchani no longer controls Abbes Zahman, her Arab husband crazy about hard rock, and the couple Koffi, Pascal Nzonzi and Salima Kamate , sleep in a yurt. The laughter bursts out and everyone finally becomes the racist of the other. We bicker, we love each other. Moral of the story: you can laugh at anything if you have the right tone.
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What have we all done to God? currently in theaters