What if the end of the world preached by hardcore ecologists and other Johannine prophets was actually good news? Who would regret it for a second if no human being had to listen to the threatening injunctions of the Northern Goddess? And that's not all - take a look at the following.
Les mercredis du cinéma - Jonas Follonier With Chambre 212, Christophe Honoré achieves the feat of occupying space like a...
Three short films are being presented this year by Pierrot Productions, an organization based at the University of Neuchâtel that aims to introduce students to the world of film. It is an ambitious production that impresses with its quality. The three shorts will be screened at a public showing tonight at the Aula des Jeunes-Rives, Espace Tilo-Frey 1, at 6:15 p.m.
Idealism, but also hard work. The documentary *Tout est possible*—whose English title is even more kitschy (*The Biggest Little Farm*)—tells the story of the years of hard work endured by an American couple who decided to leave everything behind to start a farm in harmony with nature. They succeed, after years of hard work. But will we be able to talk about it without falling into clichés?
At the «Right-Wing Convention» on Saturday, September 28, French polemicist Eric Zemmour delivered a speech that many considered racist and Islamophobic. Did he cross the line? A point-by-point analysis, without any cheap moralizing.
Last month, Swiss journalist Jacques Pilet published his second novel, *Hôtel Belvédère*, with Editions de l'Aire. Reading it, we are transported back to Switzerland in 1914. Amid a Europe in turmoil, Jules, the young son of a farmer from Vevey, falls in love with a Russian student and decides to leave for Africa. A gripping tale that explores tragic history through a heartwarming story.
In this new comedy from Guillaume Nicloux, Gérard Depadieu and Michel Houllebecq (the real deal) meet in a thalassotherapy establishment. Philosophizing endlessly about trivial matters, they try to cope with their cure as best they can, while taking potshots at today's society. A film somewhere between a schoolboy documentary and an exercise in style.
Michel Siggen, who swears by Aristotle and St. Thomas, has supplemented his course at a high school in Valais with an explanatory brochure on Jean-François Braunstein’s essay *Philosophy Gone Mad*. A work that is said to explain «the current anthropological crisis.».
French TV presenter Elisabeth Quin, who is also a writer, has dedicated her latest book, published in early 2019, to a hell she herself is going through: that of losing her sight. Extremely sensitive, this gem of a book has above all one great virtue: that of the direct truth of sensations.
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