Films

«Plan 75»: the art of putting seniors at the heart of the plan

By Leïla Favre · May 17, 2023

With her first feature film, «Plan 75», Chie Hayakawa challenges the lack of care for the elderly in today's Japanese society. By immersing her audience in a fictional Japan, the director offers a contemporary interpretation of «The Ballad of Narayama» (1983).

Films

«Nope: the cloud gives birth to a storm

By Jordi Gabioud · 03 August 2022

After Get Out (2017) and Us (2019), Jordan Peele continues his exploration of the horror genre. But by borrowing - and...

Films

«Ich bin dein Mensch»: the rejection of ready-made happiness

By Leïla Favre · July 16, 2022

Following the success of the miniseries *Unorthodox*, Maria Schrader takes viewers on a journey into a futuristic Berlin. Set in the heart of a...

Literature

A retrospective of a «picnic by the roadside».»

By Guillaume Moix · 19 March 2021

ARTICLE LONG FORMAT, Guillaume Moix | Very few works have succeeded in crossing the Iron Curtain. Soviet science fiction writers Arkadi and Boris Strougatski succeeded, mainly thanks to their novel Picnic by the Roadside. A look back at a science-fiction classic and the mark it has left on culture.

Films

«A.I. Artificial Intelligence», on the verge of tears

By Eugène Praz · 20 January 2021

Spielberg's formal purity

Literature

Reading «1984» or reaching orgasm, already an act of rebellion

By Diana-Alice Ramsauer · October 27, 2020

A new, much more rhythmic translation.

Literature

The wind in your body

By Le Regard Libre · September 3, 2020

With La Horde du Contrevent, a science-fiction novel published in 2004 by Editions de La Volte, Alain Damasio puts down on paper indelible vocables that a pair of eyes will suffice to engrave in the flesh. La Horde is first and foremost the story of twenty-three people trained from childhood to cross the land of their flat world from one end to the other to discover the origin and nine forms of the wind. It is also - and above all - a unique object and material experience for the reader.

Literature

«A machine like me», between humor and artificial intelligence

By Loris S. Musumeci · July 21, 2020

McEwan, Orwell's son

Films

«La Route»: the endless road

By Fanny Agostino · 01 April 2020

Sequences bordering on the unbearable