#Jean-Michel Boris

[ozkar-krapo]

V/A

"Polyphonix 1"

(LP. Get Back. 2002 / rec. 1979-81)

[danbenzvi]

Our Feature Presentation: “Le Grand Mechant Renard Et Autres Contes”

Starring the voices of Guillaume Darnault, Damien Witecka, Kamel Abdessadok, Antoine Schoumsky, Celine Ronte, Violette Samama, Jules Bienvenu, Augustin Jahn Sani, Boris Rehlinger, Guillaume Bouchede, Magali Rosenzweig, Elise Noiraud, Jean-Loup Horwitz, Christophe Lemoine, Bernard Larmande, Michel Scotto Di Carlo, Yves Yan, Sylvie Genty, Thierry Jahn, Mathilde Nepveu, Camielle Nepveu, Christophe Groulx, Adam Groulx and Jean Sebastien Leblanc.

[peterlorrefanpage]

Let’s find Peter Lorre!

Caricature by Al Hirschfeld (1954) for the Fifth Avenue Cinema in New York City of various Hollywood actors from the first half of the 20th century.

I do believe Peter Lorre is located in the middle of the left side, below Edward G. Robinson:

Among those pictured are:

Adolphe Menjou Alec Guinness Anna Magnani Bela Lugosi Ben Turpin Bette Davis Bing Crosby Bob Hope Boris Karloff Buster Keaton Charles Boyer Charles Laughton Charlie Chaplin Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx Clara Bow Clark Gable Douglas Fairbanks Edward G Robinson Erich von Stroheim Fernandel Fred Astaire Gary Cooper George Arliss Gerard Philipe Gina Lollobrigida Gloria Swanson Greta Garbo Harold Lloyd Harold Lloyd Hedy Lamarr Ingrid Bergman Jean Gabin Jean Harlow Jimmy Durante Joan Crawford John Gilbert Judy Garland Katharine Hepburn Laurence Olivier Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish Lionel Barrymore Lon Chaney Louis Jouvet Mae West Marie Dressler Marilyn Monroe Marlene Dietrich Mary Pickford Maurice Chevalier Michel Simon Michele Morgan Mickey Mouse Mickey Rooney Myrna Loy Norma Shearer Orson Welles Peter Lorre Raimu Rita Hayworth Rudolph Valentino Shirley Temple Spencer Tracy Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy Stepin Fetchit Theda Bara Vivien Leigh Wallace Beery Warner Oland WC Fields William Powell William S Hart

Have some more Hirschfeld - Peter Lorre caricatures:

Peter Lorre in "Crime and Punishment," drawn June 1936

Peter Lorre in "M", 4/9/33

Peter Lorre & pals in the "You'll Find Out" trade ad, 1940

[murillo-enthusiast]

Are you still in love with Ney?

Unfortunately, Soult is currently out, and his letters are being answered by the very drunk and enthusiastic ADCs.

Bory: GENTLEMEN AND LADIES!

As inspired by this letter from a brave citizen, I, Lieutenent Colonel Bory de Saint-Vincent, have a very good and excellent idea!

Saint-Chamans: What a great idea that won't get us yelled at in any way by the Marshal when he gets back!

Lameth: As I have said in the past, I think the perfect ship is the Duc de Dalmatie~

Petiet: This isn't a binding ballot by the way... I hope...

[jogoraz]

Michel Giroud aka Coyote notre cher ami et fripon divin est parti foutre le souk dans le Bardo le repos en paix c'est pas son truc 1940-2023.

El Coyote. Historien et théoricien des avant-gardes, artiste, éditeur, chercheur, ancien enseignant à l’Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts de Besançon, il se qualifiait lui-même de « peintre oral, tailleur en tout genre ».

Indéfinissable, prolixe et animé par une soif insatiable de connaissance et de transmission, Michel fut longtemps l’un des complices du Frac Franche-Comté pour qui il créa des Podcasts qu’il baptisa "Le Laboratoire Mille Voies".

Il s’agissait d’une série d’entretiens filmés consacrés aux expérimentateurs transmédias (poètes-artistes, artistes-poètes, musiciens-poètes, chercheurs, explorateurs visionnaires) depuis les années 1950 jusqu’aux années 1980.

Michel Giroud est ainsi allé à la rencontre de Jean Louis Bory, Marc Décimo, Simone Debout, Jacques Donguy, Jean Dupuy, Jean During, Esther Ferrer, Paul Armand Gette, Bernard Heidsieck, Pierre Mariétan, Jean-Claude Moineau, Alain Oudin, Tibor Papp, Michel Ragon, Tom Johnson et Ornella Volta, afin de les interroger sur leur parcours, leurs rencontres, leur vision de la poésie et de l’expérimentation. Ils étaient les premiers d’une série d’entretiens qui aurait dû se poursuivre si la maladie n’avait empêché Michel de la compléter avec d’autres artistes, poètes, spécialistes des avant-gardes, tout comme lui passionnés et hors-norme.

Celui que Gérard Collin-Thiébaut qualifie de « soldat-colporteur » nous a beaucoup donné et appris.

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

La Pataphysique et L'Écume des jours

Boris Vian est pressé, son cœur malade le pousse à vivre pleinement chaque instant qui passe. Il lui arrive d’annoncer qu’il n’atteindra pas les quarante ans. Le monde de Boris Vian s’écroule dans la nuit du 22 au 23 novembre 1944. Son père est assassiné par deux intrus, au domicile familial, et l’affaire ne sera jamais élucidée.

Boris Vian et Michelle se sont mis à écrire des scénarios, espérant en vivre mais leurs textes ne trouvent pas preneur. Le jeune homme décide donc de travailler à l’AFNOR, dans la section administrative chargée de créer des normes pour tous les objets en verre.

Boris Vian devient membre du collège de Pataphysique en 1953. Depuis sa création en 1948, cette société de recherches savantes et inutiles promeut la pataphysique et ses solutions imaginaires en prenant tout au sérieux, sauf le sérieux. Boris Vian n’est pas qu’un écrivain de l’absurde, il a l’art de tourner en légèreté les choses pesantes de la vie. Animé d’une joyeuse mais dévorante envie de vivre, il se met à écrire L’Écume des jours au dos des feuilles à en-tête de l’AFNOR.

Ce texte est celui qui confère une place de choix à Boris Vian dans l’histoire de la littérature. Il relate l’histoire de Colin et de Chloé. Colin est un jeune homme élégant, rentier, il rencontre Chloé lors d’une fête, ils tombent amoureux. Le roman est pétri d’innocence et de légèreté au début, comme un contrepoint à une évolution, au fil des pages, qui se fait de plus en plus dramatique – un nénuphar, fleur éminemment symbolique, va dévorer le poumon de Chloé. Il est aussi empli de références de l’époque : Chick, l’ami de Colin, achète par exemple les œuvres de Jean-Saul Patre, jusqu’à se ruiner. Jean-Saul Patre fait référence à Jean-Paul Sartre, dont Boris Vian tourne évidemment le nom avec ironie et malice.

Ce roman est aussi merveilleusement représentatif de l’imaginaire débordant de Boris Vian, qui y invente des mot-valise inoubliables, tels que le « Pianocktail » : Colin joue un air sur ce piano afin de composer un cocktail et l’instrument possède la particularité de prendre en compte certaines mauvaises notes, « pas toutes heureusement ». Le lecteur découvrira aussi le « Biglemoi », danse grâce à laquelle Colin et Chloé tombent amoureux, fondée sur la production d’interférences par deux sources animées d’un mouvement oscillatoire rigoureusement synchrone. Mais aussi les « doublezons », monnaie inventée par Boris Vian… L’ensemble est une œuvre gracieuse, inventive, ténébreuse et lumineuse à la fois.

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY

JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY

1632-1687

Italian-French composer at Louis XIV's court stabbed himself with staff and died

Lully was born into a Tuscan family of corn millers and was given music lessons in his youth. In 1646, he dressed as a Harlequin for Mardi Gras which attracted the attention of Roger de Lorraine, who invited him back to France to be friends with his niece and he became her ‘chamber boy’ from 1647-1652. He was musically talented and went from her household to become a musician, composer, and dancer at the French royal court.

In 1653, he caught the attention of Louis XIV ‘Sun King’, who quickly made him the royal composer. In 1662, Lully married Madeleine Lambert the daughter of composer Michel Lambert.

In 1683, Queen Marie Therese died and the king secretly married Mme de Maintenon, and he no longer had enthusiasm for opera as he once had. Louis XIV was also put off by Lully’s lifestyle and his homosexual encounters.

In 1687, Lully struck his foot with his conducting staff during a performance and died from gangrene. He refused to have his leg amputated because he wanted to continue to dance. The gangrene spread through his body and infected his brain which killed him. He died in Paris and was buried in the church of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, where his tomb still exists today.

Boris Terral portrayed Lully in the film Le Roi Danse (King is Dancing) (2000).

#jeanbaptistelully#louisxiv#boristerral#leroidanse

#thekingisdancing

[tournoi-francophone]

Certaines de mes oeuvres francophones préférées :

Les Misérables, Quatrevingt-treize (Victor Hugo) Nadja (André Breton) Les chants de Maldoror (Lautréamont) L'enfant de la haute mer, Le forçat innocent, Les amis inconnus (Supervielle) L'automne à Pekin, L'écume des jours (Boris Vian) Antigone (Anouilh) Le misanthrope, Dom Juan (Molière) Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand) Ondine, La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu (Giraudoux) La bête humaine, Germinal, Au bonheur des dames (Zola) Manuel de savoir-vivre à l'usage des rustres et des malpolis (Desproges) Le Horla (Maupassant) Claudine à l'école, Claudine à Paris (Colette) L'oeil du loup (Daniel Pennac) De cape et de crocs (Ayroles / Masbou) Comment Wang-Fo fut sauvé (Marguerite Yourcenar) L'île mystérieuse, 20000 lieues sous les mers (Jules Verne) Les fleurs du mal (Baudelaire) L'arbre à soleils (Henri Gougaud) La passe-miroir (Christelle Dabos) Les dingodossiers (Goscinny / Gotlib) Malpertuis, Les derniers contes de Canterbury (Jean Ray) Archives des anges (Alix de Saint-André) Du domaine des murmires (Carole Martinez) A la mystérieuse, Fortunes (Robert Desnos) Les animaux dénaturés, Contes des cataplasmes (Vercors) Sambre (Yslaire) 38 mini-westerns avec des fantomes (Mathias Malzieu) Les liaisons dangereuses (Laclos) Alcools (Apollinaire) Chansons (Maeterlinck) Gaspard de la nuit (Aloysius Bertrand) Mémoires de Louise Michel écrits par elle-même (Louise Michel) Romancero aux étoiles (Jacques Stephen Alexis)

Aaaah y’en a tellement !! Merciiii!

[ultrajaphunter]

Emergency injunction and tribunal order was served to WHO and all Criminal Defendants

BREAKING NEWS:

Emergency injunction and tribunal order was served to WHO and all Criminal Defendants listed below to immediately cease and desist a criminal conspiracy to commit war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity and to arrest and incarcerate these criminal defendants.

All Constitutional law enforcements officers worldwide are being served starting with Interpol and constitutional law enforcements in everyone of the 194 member nations under Writs of Mandamus ordering them to carry out their duties to arrest and incarcerate these criminal codefendants for unlawful and Genocidal acts in connection with the WHO Pandemic preparedness response and changes to the international health regulations.

Tribunal Writs of Mandamus is defined as:

“The lawful term writ of mandamus refers to an order by a court to a lesser government official to perform an act required by law, which he has refused or neglected to do.

This type of court order is a remedy that may be sought if a governmental agency, public authority, or corporation in service of the government, fails or refuses to do its public or statutory duty.”

This has been ordered by the Tribunal Under Articles 6 (Genocide) and 7 (Crimes Against Humanity) of the International Criminal Code.

List of Criminal Defendants 2009-2023 Lockstep Vaccination Genocidal Pandemic Criminal Co-conspiracy, including and not limited to individually and collectively:

Bill and Melinda Gates individually and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

World Health Organization (WHO) and Officers, Directors, Employees, and Agents Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus WHO Director General, Anthony Stephen Fauci.

World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab and Officers, Directors, Employees, and Agents. Michael Bloomberg, David Rockefeller Jr, Warren Buffett, George Soros, Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey, Rockefeller Foundation, Global Business Network (GBN), Peter Schwartz, Chairman GBN.

Convicted Vaccination Genocidal Pandemic and Neural Monitoring Governmental Executive Defendants: Xi JinPing, General Secretary of the Communist Party.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation. Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America. Joseph R. Biden 46th President of the United States of America.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel. Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the UK. Matt Hancock, UK Secretary of State for Health.

The Crown Corporation and any and all of its Subsidiaries including and not limited to Serco. Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada. Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia. Jacinda Arden, Prime Minister of New Zealand.

Stefan Löfven Prime Minister of Sweden. Minister of Heath Lena Hallengren. Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India.

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron, President of France. Edouard Phillipe, Prime Minister of France.

Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany.

António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations Organization.

European Union, and President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. President of the Parliament, David Sassoli. President of the European Council, Charles Michel. Michael Ryan, WHO CEO's at GCHQ-UK, NSA-USA and Bilderberg Group, all CEOs, Monarchies, and Members.

Convicted Defendant Pandemic Vaccine Programs: Global Alliance Vaccine Initiative [GAVI], The Vaccine Alliance, including and not limited to its Pandemic Vaccine Program.

Pandemic Vaccine Program United States of America, Operation Warp Speed and successor Pandemic Vaccine Program.

World Health Organization COVAX, Pandemic Vaccine Program. Pandemic Vaccine Program People's Republic of China, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control.

Russian Federation, Rospotrebnadzor.

Convicted Genocidal Vaccination Entities: Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Johnson and Johnson, The Pirbright Institute.

02/24/23 Judge Pascal Najadi:

They will all be arrested as soon as possible, Military and law enforcement worldwide are preparing for this to happen. Godspeed.

[byneddiedingo]

Dita Parlo and Jean Dasté in L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)

Cast: Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Michel Simon, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre, Maurice Gilles, Raphaël Diligent. Screenplay: Jean Guinet, Albert Riéra, Jean Vigo. Cinematography: Boris Kaufman. Art direction: Francis Jourdan. Film editing: Louis Chavance. Music: Maurice Jaubert. 

L'Atalante is one of those near-universally acclaimed film masterpieces that failed theatrically on their first release and were rediscovered and re-evaluated more than a decade later. But it's also one of those films that young contemporary movie lovers may not "get" on first viewing today. I remember my own reaction to films like The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939) and L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960), movies that didn't fit what I expected from being raised on energetic, plot-driven, star-centered American movies. Melancholy and irony are not widely praised American values, although lord knows we have plenty of it in the best American literature. They surfaced for a time in the best American films of the 1970s, but have been driven back into the underground by the blockbuster mentality. There was a time, even after the great cinematic awakening of the '70s when I found myself resenting film critics for their inability to appreciate popular movies I liked: "Critics see too many movies to enjoy them," I sniffed. But the truth is, the more movies you see, the more you're able to appreciate those that don't walk the line, that don't instantly gratify the hunger for plot resolution, for spectacle, for something that sends you out of the theater blissfully untroubled by thought. L'Atalante confused and bored its contemporary viewers, but today those of us who love it do so because it seems to us alternately tender and brutal, simultaneously comic and touching, and, taken as a whole, one of the few movies that successfully transport us to a time and place and a company of human beings we have never found ourselves in the middle of before. It is also, despite years of mishandling and cutting and botched attempts at restoration, one of the most technically dazzling films ever made. The performances -- by Michel Simon as the rather gross Père Jules, Dita Parlo and Jean Dasté as the young couple trying to start married life on a cramped river barge, and Gilles Margaritis as the madcap peddler who almost wrecks their marriage -- are extraordinary. Cinematographer Boris Kaufman overcame the severe limitations of filming scenes in the cramped quarters below-decks as well as open-air scenes for which the weather refused to cooperate. Vigo and Kaufman stage visual compositions that have a freshness that never seems arty. And who can ever forget Simon's Père Jules clambering aboard the barge with a kitten on his shoulders? Every corner of L'Atalante is filled with life.

[etiennedaho]

Une image d’album c’est si important.

Elle dit ce que le disque EST. Elle est son reflet le plus juste et le premier contact que l’on a avec la musique.

La barre est haute, car j’ai eu la chance d’avoir des rencontres artistiques fantastiques avec des photographes, illustrateurs et graphistes tels que Nick Knight, Ines & Vinood, Pierre et Gilles, Richard Dumas, Guy Peellaert, Pari Dukovic, Antoine Le Grand, Donald Christie, Frédérique Veysset, Janusz Kawa, Karim Sadli, Antoine Giacomoni….le corse.

Un autre corse magnifique, Pierre Ange Carlotti. Une autre belle rencontre. Sur la même longueur d’ondes.

Dans une journée glaciale et en tenue chic cuir et pailletée, nous avons shooté cette image qui semble sortie d’un film.

Ovniesque, nocturne, captant un moment de surprise. Pierre Ange a réalisé l’image que j’avais en tête depuis le début de l’écriture de cet album. Merci à lui et aux figurants ( Julia, Margueritte, Paul et Soel ) qui ont eux aussi bravé le froid pour m’accompagner dans cette belle aventure qui ne peut qu’être belle, puisque les planètes sont alignées.

Rendez-vous à 18h30 …

Etienne.

Pierre-Ange Carlotti

Barclay

@sophiebramly

Nouvel album « Tirer la nuit sur les étoiles », disponible en précommande 👉https://bio.to/EtienneDahoTirerlanuitsurlesetoiles

Photographe : Pierre-Ange Carlotti

Grizzly

Producteur exécutif : Boris Berger

Assistante de production : Lauranne Da Silva

Phenomena

Director : Sarah Mahini

Photos coordinator : Dominique Jean

1ère assistante photo : Aline Blocman

2e assistant photo : Bastien Tonaceto

3e assistant photo : Mohamed Ali Ghouayel

Hair & Make Up : Gil Lesage

Stylist : Barbara Loison

Models : Julia Coma, Soel Kobayashi, Marguerite Monat, Paul Mulocher

Remerciements

Maire de Paris

Mission Cinéma Paris Films : Michel Gomez, Julien Duco

Territoire du bois de Vincennes : Patrice Baudry, Romain Mathieu

Mairie de Charenton Le Pont

Maire adjoint : Pascal Turano

Secrétariat voirie : Patricia Mourrut-Perinelle

[thetalentedmrkashyap]

B-3 : Oscars 2023 Predictions - A Film fan's perspective (Part - 1)

The 95th Academy Awards, a.k.a. The Oscars®, will take place on March 13 at 5:30 AM IST. The celebrations of the Oscar season are at their peak. Amid the fun and excitement, here's a look at the movies categories and our predictions of the winners:-

Best Picture

Nominations: 

All Quiet on the Western Front

Avatar: The Way of Water

The Banshees of Inisherin

Elvis

Everything Everywhere All at Once

The Fabelmans

TAR

Top Gun: Maverick

Triangle of Sadness

Women Talking

Prediction: The Fabelmans

The Academy might favor a movie that exhibits the love for cinema through the eyes of one of Hollywood's most-respected directors - Steven Spielberg. Either originally-written movies like Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Banshees of Inisherin can give tough competition.

Best Director

Nominees:

Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

Todd Field, TÁR

Ruben Östlund, Triangle of Sadness

Prediction: Steven Spielberg

Spielberg would be the rightful winner for it. If it happens, he would be the third person to win three directing Oscars - after Frank Capra and William Wyler.

Best Original Screenplay

Nominees:

The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh

Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

The Fabelmans – Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner

Tár – Todd Field

Triangle of Sadness – Ruben Östlund

Prediction: The Banshees of Inisherin/Everything Everywhere All At Once

Unlike the first two categories, the Daniels and Martin McDonagh would be fighting for this award. It's the fight between the battle of multiverses & the conflict between two friends.

Best Adapted Screenplay

Nominees:

All Quiet on the Western Front – Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, and Ian Stokell (based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque)

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Rian Johnson; based on characters created by Johnson and the film Knives Out

Living – Kazuo Ishiguro (based on the original motion picture screenplay Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Hideo Oguni)

Top Gun: Maverick – Screenplay by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie; Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks; based on the film Top Gun written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr.

Women Talking – Sarah Polley (based on the novel by Miriam Toews)

Prediction: Women Talking

Women Talking would be the ideal winner for the film adaptation of the atrocities by men against women (inspired by the Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia).

Best Actor

Nominees:

Austin Butler – Elvis as Elvis Presley

Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin as Pádraic Súilleabháin

Brendan Fraser – The Whale as Charlie

Paul Mescal – Aftersun as Calum Paterson

Bill Nighy – Living as Mr. Rodney Williams

Prediction: Austin Butler/Colin Farrell/Brendan Fraser

Fraser's portrayal of an obese, depressed man can bring the Academy in his favor. He would compete with Austin Butler's portrayal of the King of Rock n' Roll & Farrell's character of an Irishman betrayed by his best friend (both actors won this year's Golden Globes).

Best Actress

Nominees:

Cate Blanchett – Tár as Lydia Tár

Ana de Armas – Blonde as Norma Jeane Mortensen / Marilyn Monroe

Andrea Riseborough – To Leslie as Leslie Rowlands

Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans as Mitzi Schildkraut-Fabelman

Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Evelyn Quan Wang

Prediction: Cate Blanchett/Michelle Yeoh

It'll be the fight between Blanchett's complex character of an orchestra conductor & Yeoh's role of a superwoman protecting the multiverse from her daughter.

Best Supporting Actor

Nominees:

Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin as Colm Doherty

Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway as James Aucoin

Judd Hirsch – The Fabelmans as Boris Schildkraut

Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin as Dominic Kearney

Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Waymond Wang

Prediction: Ke Huy Quan

This one's gonna go to Indiana Jones' sidekick - Short Round, i.e., Quan - for playing a kind and friendly person to his wife in different universes.

Best Supporting Actress

Nominees:

Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Queen Ramonda

Hong Chau – The Whale as Liz

Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin as Siobhán Súilleabháin

Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Deirdre Beaubeirdre

Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Joy Wang / Jobu Tupaki

Prediction: Angela Bassett

All hail the Queen Mother!!! Bassett's likely to take the trophy home for portraying the grieving mother of the late Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa.

[fuck-off-im-ace]

I saw your tags about French book ideas 👀 i’m currently at a level where I’m just looking at graphic novels to read (I think I’ve got dialogue down but prose? Uhhhh) but if you had book recs that are above that level I can tuck them away for the future

Hi @sofflepoffle! I’m always super happy to have the opportunity to talk about french litterature, so i made you a little list, from easier reads to harder things!

Pierre Bottero - Le chant du Troll (French writer) This is my favorite writer of all times, and he writes children’s books. He’s incredible, his writing is so poetic and deep and well developped, with beautiful characters and a nice storyline. This one is a graphic novel, i usually dont suggest to start with this one because the story is 1000x more emotionnal if you already know about the world and who the kid is, but my mother read it out of the blue and she cried so i’d say it still hits? 

Hergé - Tintin (Writer from Belgium) You’re probably already familiar with the Tintin series, they’re honestly good as a learning tool. I would suggest Le secret de la licorne, On a marché sur la lune, or Les 7 boules de crystal.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Le petit prince (French writer) Pretty well known, its easy to read, cute and wholesome overall, would recommend trying it!

Pierre Bottero - La quête d’Ewilan (French writer) He got a few book series, but they all connect with each other, so this is a good place to start but you could start from somewhere else! Easy read, since it’s a children’s book.

Jocelyn Boisvert - Mort et déterré (Writer from Québec) YA book, so pretty easy to follow! Cute story of a teenager who dies, but somehow doesnt fully dies? He becomes some kind of zombie creature, and then just chill as a zombie with his bestie, trying to do things he never got to do in his life. 

Jocelyne Saucier - Il pleuvait des oiseaux (Writer from Québec) I have to say, i didnt read it, but my friend recommended it to me, and he says its a good and easy read! They also made it into a movie, if you wanna try that.

Patrick Senécal - Any book of him, really (Writer from Québec) This writer is kind of our own Stephen King (kinda more gross and less good, no offense to the dude), so if its your kind of thing you could check it out, pretty easy read!

Michel Folco - Dieu et nous seuls pouvons (French writer) Comedic story of a family of excecutioners living in the XVIIe century. There is some torture and lots of killing of course, so avoid if its not your thing, but over all pretty good book!

Jean Barbe - Comment devenir un monstre (Writer from Québec) Very good book, heavy read because its a quite serious book. Very good tho!

Domique Fortier - Du bon usage des étoiles (Writer from Québec) Historical fiction, i liked the suspense and the description of the territory, a very captivating read! 

Véronique Grenier - Hiroshimoi (Writer from Québec) Fun fact, this writer was my philosophy teacher in college! She’s a poet and a writer, so this book is kinda halfway between both? It’s a love story, or rather a break up story, but written in form of a poem. It’s kinda hard to read, because she plays a lot on sounds, creates new words by mixing two together, so hard to read, but also pretty short sentences. 

Boris Vian - L’Écume des jours (French writer) A personnal favorite of mine, its an absurd tragedy, putting it on the top of the list because of the “absurd” quality of it. A lot of things do not make sense, like rooms that change shape depending on the music playing. 

I didnt want to into too much of a big rant, so just putting those i can think of quickly, but if you want more ideas, like more easy read or more medium reads or whatever you can always hit me up! I would also suggest reading something you’re already familiar with? You might be already doing that, but if not, for me its what helped the most. I literally just took books i read in french, found them in english, and then tried reading that. I hope this helps, hit me up if you need anything else!

[chansonsinternationales]

"Baisers volés", 1968 | France Inter

[mariesrbouipochodian]

Si j'ai saisi les sous-implications depuis des années qu'ils ont scénarisé ma vie...

Normalement, en 1988, je dis consciemment que l'homme parfait c'est Boris Vian...

Normalement, ils font des recherches et comme pour Obama, un Obama a été retenu, donc un Macron a été retenu...

Celui de Brigitte Macron.... Les autres frères de Macron ont échappé à la vautour Brigitte Macron...

Un de ses frères, c'est l'ex lfi ruffin...

Un de ses frères, c'est Gabriel Attal...

Un des psychopathes parmi ses cousins, c'est Gérald darmanin...

C'est effrayant le nombre de frères de Macron que l'on a vu... Et ce pauvre Macron ne sait pas qu'il meurt, lui et les siens....

Je pense qu'ils liquident le stock d'enfants du Vatican de Ratzinger, Benoît xvi....

Pauvre vieux... Macron, je l'aime bien malgré tout....

Un grand enfant qu'une prostituée pédophile a épousé... Puis cette pédophile s'est faite tuer puisque française, si ça se trouve en 2003 pendant l'énorme canicule de la France... Et maintenant, un transsexuel se dit la reine de France, Brigitte Macron....

Pauvre Macron....

Ce jean Michel doit le tabasser souvent... Il a l'air débile plus que prévu ce petit chou Macron...

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In 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather in Germany. Convinced that Kalinka’s death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and leads him to accuse Kalinka’s stepfather, Dr Dieter Krombach, as the murderer. Unable to indict Krombach in Germany, Bamberski attempts to take the trial to France, where he will dedicate his life to Kalinka’s justice and the imprisonment of Krombach. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: André Bamberski: Daniel Auteuil Doctor Dieter Krombach: Sebastian Koch Dany: Marie-Josée Croze Cécile: Christelle Cornil Kalinka (6 years old): Lila-Rose Gilberti Kalinka (14 years old): Emma Besson Robert: Christian Kmiotek Maître Gibault: Serge Feuillard Father of André: Fred Personne Mother of André: Thérèse Roussel Pierre (20 years old): Tom Hudson Pierre (12 years old): Antoine Milhaud Pierre (4 years old): Timéo Bolland Bamberski’s assistant: Natalie Beder Boris: Nicolas Planchais Investigating judge: Valérie Even Policeman Scheidegg: Johannes Oliver Hamm Investigating judge: Florence d’Azémar Investigating judge: Stanislas Stanic Investigating judge: Catherine Davenier Bailiff: Alain Beigel President of the Paris court: Patrick Zimmermann Advocate General: Guillaume Briat Clerk: Marie Vernalde General producer: Luc Gentil Director of criminal affairs: Geoffroy Boutan Assistant of criminal affairs: Patrick Hauthier Secretary: Anne-Cécile Crapie Secretary: Véronique Dossetto Forensic pathologist: Jean-Pol Brissart Policeman: Loïc Risser Entrepreneur: Michel Gomes German lawyer: Jürgen Zwingel President of the Kempten court: Fritz Hammer Eva: Emma Drogunova German journalist: Susanne Schmidt Young German saleswoman: Charlotte Krenz German doctor: Wolfgang Pissors German policeman: Christophe Bizet Serbian kidnapper: Pierre Bourel Lawyer in court: Jan Oliver Schroeder Clerk (uncredited): Audrey Quoturi Film Crew: Original Music Composer: Nicolas Errèra Dialogue: Julien Rappeneau Producer: Cyril Colbeau-Justin Producer: Jean-Baptiste Dupont Producer: Nadia Khamlichi Producer: Adrian Politowski Set Decoration: Barbara Bernhard Editor: Valérie Deseine Executive Producer: David Giordano Dialogue: Vincent Garenq Sound Mixer: Jean-Pierre Duret Executive Producer: Bernie Stampfer Producer: Gilles Waterkeyn Costume Design: Marie-Laure Lasson Director of Photography: Renaud Chassaing Foley Artist: Philippe van Leer Production Design: François Abelanet Executive Producer: Frantz Richard Supervising Sound Editor: Pascal Villard Script Supervisor: Yannick Charles Set Decoration: Delphine De Casanove Producer: Hugo Bergson-Vuillaume Casting: David Bertrand Hairstylist: Laurent Bozzi Key Makeup Artist: Hugues Lavau Hairstylist: Nadine Hermand First Assistant Director: François Domange Production Manager: Laurent Sivot Producer: Philipp Kreuzer Set Decoration: Jessica Labet Producer: Roland Schaffner Dialogue Editor: Sabrina Felgueiras Movie Reviews: