Films

«The Count: when the biopic is a dictatorship

By Jordi Gabioud · September 27, 2023

Turning the biography of a dictator responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths into a film is a daring gamble. All the more so when you mix dark humor and fantasy. Unfortunately, the ingredients just don't mix.

Literature

Eugène, the inimitable storyteller

By Ivan Garcia · 16 June 2023

Following the publication of his new award-winning book, «Lettre à mon dictateur», we invited Swiss writer Eugène to join us for a conversation about him, based on memory and humor. Meet a funny storyteller.

World

Are the reasons for fighting in a dictatorship different from those in a democracy?

By Clément Guntern · 03 December 2022

For almost a year now, Russian soldiers have been fighting in Ukraine in a war whose rationality escapes most of the world. On the Ukrainian side, the reasons for fighting are almost self-evident, a question of survival. In the Russian ranks, the question arises.

Literature

When Eugène settles accounts with Nicolae Ceaușescu

By Ivan Garcia · October 18, 2022

In a letter to the Romanian dictator, the author recounts his relationship with the shadow that hung over his life...

Literature

Becoming free in Turkey, for the love of Madame Vie

By Diana-Alice Ramsauer · September 14, 2021

L'histoire d'un étudiant turc, Fazil, amoureux de deux femmes, qui découvre la révolte.

Films

«Coronation»: the price of greatness and pride

By Clément Guntern · March 17, 2021

«Coronation»: from the land of the coronavirus to the crowning glory of China's response to the pandemic. Wuhan containment as seen by Ai Weiwei.

Literature

Frédéric Beigbeder: «Looking at reality with astonishment doesn't prevent us from being corrosive».»

By Ivan Garcia · 10 May 2020

On the occasion of the presentation of the final part of his trilogy devoted to Octave Parango, Frédéric Beigbeder takes us on a journey in the footsteps of this literary double, sharing his criticism of the dictatorship of laughter and his passion for the novel.

Films

«Matrix» and the new totalitarianism

By Loris S. Musumeci · 01 April 2020

Big brother is watching you

World

Venezuela's sovereignty over its people

By Clément Guntern · January 28, 2019

Les lundis de l'actualité - Clément Guntern Les opposants au régime de Nicolas Maduro attendaient depuis longtemps que le président...