Art, culture & music
JULES VERNE & AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS: The acceleration of a phenomenon
In 1871, Jules Verne moved to Amiens, where he was a prominent figure and lived a bourgeois life punctuated by habits and routines. The first book he wrote there was, nonetheless, a hectic and exhilarating tale: Around the World in 80 Days. The book tells a contemporary story; that of a bet to circu...
OTHER WAYS OF LISTENING
“Changing life” was the objective proclaimed by the politicians who came to power in France in 1981.
It was this impetus that enabled the Ministry of Culture to provide the major creators of avant-garde music with the means to develop new ways of making and listening to music. Luc Ferrari seized th...
OUR SHADOWS OF ALGERIA
Artists keeping memories alive.
Leading figures in the ninth art (graphic novels) explore memories of the Algerian war. With their brushes and pens, they (re)create moments from their family histories and summon the ghosts that haunt “their wounds” from Algeria, turning memories into art and give...
The story of ED SHEERAN
Talented songwriter and performer Ed Sheeran has just released "=" (Equals), his 5th album, and is set to embark upon a massive sell-out stadium tour called The Mathematics Tour. A series of concerts that will live up to its name with numbers that will make your head spin.
At just 30 years of age...
THE STORY OF ELTON JOHN
In 2021, Elton John became the first solo artist to break into the UK top 10 singles chart for six successive decades. With 300 million albums sold in 80 countries, and 5000 concerts worldwide, his career is dizzying.
A virtuoso pianist and talented singer, Elton John gets audiences of all ages d...
IDA LUPINO, Hollywood’s rebel fiancee
Ida Lupino, the blonde offspring of an English theatrical dynasty, arrives in 1933 in Hollywood as “the english Jean Harlow”. In our film, her ghost returns to a movie set to tell us about her life. How her strong-willed personality made it possible for her to assert herself in the male-dominated wo...
RÉGIS CAMPO – Strange Beautiful Music
Contemporary music follows different creative trends, above which soars a talented and highly individual composer: Régis Campo.
This film traces the two years preceding his entry into the Académie des beaux-arts in France, between concerts around the world, composition in his Paris apartment, and...
WE ARE THE SAVAGES, Tales from the neighbourhood
Les Sauvages tells the story of a mysterious young woman who moves into a park on the edge of the “neighbourhood”, a place between the city and the forest. The local residents surround the young woman and ask her what she’s doing there. Soon, people from outside the community - the police, town plan...
GREGORIAN CHANT 2.0
Gregorian chant is beautiful and mysterious. It’s music that surpasses us, penetrates us, transports us to a distant past. And yet it can be heard much more widely today than we might imagine.
It is not only heard in churches or within the cloistered walls of monasteries, but also in recording st...