MAGAZINE Used to return, “Pif” had already repointé the tip of his nose this summer in a special issue. ..
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Here, (rerere) are again Pif! The mythical magazine Children of 1970-80 comes on newsstands Wednesday, this time under the name Super Pif , as this summer. This is the newspaper L’Humanité , owner of the title, who announced Monday.
In a format of 164 pages, sold 6.50 euros and fired 90,000 copies, the magazine will offer a course gadget – fir seeds for this first issue – but also reissues of comic cults like Rahan , human adventures of the eponymous caves, or heroes back as the Pif the dog.
The character reborn under the pen of Richard di Martino, who walks in the footsteps of a dozen designers. Starting with the famous dog creator, José Cabrero Arnal, which has penciled in 1948 in L’Humanité , followed by Roger Mas, Louis Cance, Michel Motti or Giorgio Cavazzano.
New boards will propose including stories about the reports of children with new technologies (“e-kids”).
The fans also find characters from their childhood in The Jungle madness , Dicentim , Placid and Muzo , Corinne et Jeannot , The Rigolus and Tristus or still The Tiny .
Super Pif , already back in the form of a special issue last summer fired 100,000 copies with the designs of Richard di Martino, revived the magazine born in 1969 under the leadership of the Communist Party. Real phenomenon release of 70-80 years, with 500 000 copies on average draws, Pif Gadget disappeared in 1993. Humanity, brand owner, had then risen between 2004 and 2009 with a new formula, but Pif , heavily indebted, had closed again.
With the new Super Pif will be distributed 2.5 million tree seeds, said the magazine, which also went to investigate what had become of the Sapif these pines planted 40 years ago when Pif Gadget had offered a similar gadget.
Pif Gadget , the legendary children’s magazine of 1970-1980, on newsstands Wednesday returns on a quarterly basis under the name Super Pif, said on Monday the newspaper L’Humanité , owner of the title. In a format of 164 pages, sold 6.50 euros and pulled 90,000 copies, the magazine will offer a course gadget – fir seeds for this first issue – but also reissues of comic cults like Rahan , human adventures of the eponymous caves, or the hero back as Pif the dog, told a new designer. Fans find characters from their childhood in The Jungle Madness , Dicentim, Placid and Muzo, Corinne and Jeannot, the Rigolus and Tristus, or the lowercase.
Pif character reborn under the pen of Richard di Martino, who walks in the footsteps of a dozen designers. Starting with the famous dog creator, José Cabrero Arnal, which has penciled in 1948 L’Humanité , followed by Roger Mas, Louis Cance, Michel Motti or Giorgio Cavazzano. New boards offer particular stories about the reports of children with new technologies (“e-kids”).
The Sapifs
Super Pif , already back in the form of a special issue last summer, pulled 100,000 copies with the designs of Richard di Martino, revived the magazine born in 1969 under the leadership of the Communist Party. Press true phenomenon of 1970-1980, with 500 prints 000 copies on average, Pif Gadget had disappeared in 1993.
L’Humanité , owner of the brand, then had risen between 2004 and 2009 with a new formula, but Pif , heavily indebted, had closed again. With the new Super Pif will be distributed 2.5 million tree seeds, said the magazine, which also went to investigate what had become of the Sapif these pines planted 40 years ago When Pif Gadget had offered a similar gadget.
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Annie Hall Woody Allen with Woody Allen, Diane Keaton (Arte, 8:50 p.m.). “There is a before and an after Annie Hall in the career of Woody Allen before it. is a little awkward man who laugh a lot. After that, there is always a little awkward man who laugh a lot but this time, laughter is tinged with a certain melancholy. Under cover of a fiction, the most New York filmmakers book made a film in the form of confession, both funny (WGA elected Annie Hall best screenplay of all time) lucid and profound. It includes the verve of Woody Allen, the influence of Bergman and his first muse – Diane Keaton whose real name is Diane Hall. – Three sublime Oscars later (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress) there will Interiors and Manhattan. Small awkward man became Grand “ Matilda Degorce
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VIDEO – For two days of the release in France of the animated film the Prophet, it produces and it interprets, Mexican actress puts into perspective humanist thought of Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran with news
There are two Salma Hayek. icon International recently appointed by the Americans, “the hottest woman the decade” and committed filmmaker. This morning on France Inter , in issuing Trapenard Augustin is in his own words “the activist for freedom and women’s rights” who defended his movie The Prophet, due out in France on December 2.
During his interview, the reporter from France Inter tried to connect The Prophet , the film adaptation of the philosophical book of Lebanese author Kahlil Gibran, with timeliness, Cop 21 and the terrorist attacks that hit France on November 13.
Salma Hayek has not evaded his questions: “We are at a crossroads. ENVIRONMENTAL and address major political threats, the future could be bleak. Nevertheless, I remain hopeful, it is possible to transform the world. We must work together in a world without borders. The heart of freedom is courage. “
The Lebanese Mexican actress then returned to the importance in his eyes the film The Prophet , a work she wore from start to finish as a producer. She stressed the depth and accessibility of texts Gibran: “It is poetry, philosophy. In a way, it is also very accessible, very intelligible. Gibran speaks to the human aspect that is in us. His mind transcends religions. He talks about life, the good, the bad, childhood, beauty … but it never imposes a system. “
The producer of Prophet also explained why she wanted to take several filmmakers: “We had several points of view. Gibran’s art is the freedom it gives its readers to understand his poems. “
The participation of several artists at the famous La Rochelle music festival was formalized. Aside from the Insus ?, were also announced Louise Attack, Louane and Master Gims.
From 13 to 17 July 2016, dozens of artists will parade on the stages of the Francofolies festival in La Rochelle. For its 31st edition, the event will highlight the French singers and groups who have made music news in recent months.
A handful of headliners was notably announced on November 30 by the festival organizers. We therefore find the Insus this summer? (ex-Phone), Louise Attack, Louane, Parov Stelar, Nekfeu, Ibrahim Maalouf and Master Gims …
Jean-Louis Aubert and Louis Bertignac and will stop on July 17 in La Rochelle, few days of the end of the tour they will begin April 27.
flagship group of French rock scene of the late 1990s, Louise Attack, which will be released early in 2016 his first album in over ten years will also be the festival alongside the trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf.
The young actress and singer Louane, find in July La Rochelle where she started her French tour November 3.
Finally, the master of “electro swing”, the Austrian composer Parov Stelar and rapper Master Gims Nekfeu and complement the eclectic displays of this edition of the Francofolies which should accommodate a hundred artists.
This is a message on Facebook as a cry for help. The Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor has apparently tried to end his days Sunday, according to a message on her Facebook page she says she made a “overdose” of drugs or medication. In a message on the social network, whose authenticity could not be verified immediately, the singer says his pain of not having relationships with his family, because of a “horrifying series of betrayals.”
“I overdosed,” it is added, without specifying whether it is drugs or medication. “There is no other way to get respect. I’m not home, I’m in a hotel somewhere in Ireland, under another name. (…) If I did not was publishing this, my children and my family would not even know it. I could be dead for weeks without their knowledge, “is it written yet. The public relations company related to Ms. O’Connor was not reachable in the evening.
An Irish police spokesman said he did not express “on individuals particular “. But a source in the police said that the singer had been “localized security”. She received medical care, according to news reports.
“Music has killed my soul”
Earlier this year, Sinéad O’Connor had canceled all upcoming concerts on the grounds that his son suffered from “health problems that put his life in danger.” She also had a hysterectomy in August, she recounted on social networks. Facebook on Saturday said the singer had finished with the music industry: “Music, it’s over for me. The music did that. Made me invisible, including with regard to my children. Killed my soul. I would never return to music. “
The artist, aged 48, is known for its strong stances in favor of the rights of women and against sexual abuse in the Irish Catholic Church. She also publicly referred to his battle against depression. It was critically acclaimed upon its first album, The Lion and the Cobra (1987), and had gained worldwide fame with the song “Nothing Compares 2 U” written by Prince. She explained in March 2015 that it no longer sing the title because she could no longer put it of emotion.
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Another bad-ass role of Clint Eastwood. Dirty Harry. “emblematic figure of polar US-1970s, this Harry Callahan also marked forever the career of Clint Eastwood, playing in no less than five opus to the sometimes uneven quality. But this one, the first to us exposing the adventures of this cop to expeditious methods, a reactionary strand and scathing replicas is extremely effective, both dark, rough around the edges and not embarrassing to any form of morality. “ Guillaume Martin
The Dirty Harry Trailer Another grandpa who settles accounts: Harry Brown. “Who would have thought that the essential actor Michael Caine, to the 80 years approach, could wear it with gusto vigilant violent movie in particularly dark atmosphere? The supporting roles are not left out, including Iain . Glen, David Bradley and Liam Cunningham, all three playing in the Game of Thrones series “Guillaume MartinHarry Brown Trailer A relationship between an old and a young: A Finding Forrester. “ Even if the film is much like Will Hunting, Van Sant also, all works thanks to the talent of the director (who knows how to tell a complex story in a simple way) and the chemistry between the two main characters . “ Laurent SchenckA Finding Forrester Trailer
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TONIGHT ON TV – One day in history tells almost forty years of Islamist terrorism, Osama bin Laden Daech.
How did we get to the attacks of November 13? To answer this question, Laurent Delahousse offers this Sunday on France 2, a documentary that tells the story of al-Qaida and shows how Daech is the heir of the organization founded in 1998 by Osama bin Laden. Rich in expert testimony and archive footage, the origins of jihad describes the rise of Islamist terrorism for nearly forty years. He points to the difficulty or inability, of Westerners to take the measure of the threat. And the mistakes democracies in general and the US in particular.
The documentary begins with Osama bin Laden put in historical context. On November 20, 1979, when the future leader of al-Qaida is only a 22 year old student, held a terrorist attack against the Grand Mosque in Mecca. A group of extremist Muslims of various nationalities performs a hostage and kills several hundred people. The mosque is released by the Saudi army December 4 with the help of France and the GIGN.
Banned from Saudi Arabia
At this time, the young Osama, son of the powerful bin Laden family, close to the Saudi authorities, is far from being a terrorist. Unlike his many brothers and sisters went to study in the West, he remained at home and received a strict religious upbringing. It is natural that in 1980 he accepted the offer of Saudi intelligence to rejoin Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union.
The young millionaire invests in his body and soul new mission. He recruited jihadists who come from the entire Muslim world to bend the USSR, with the support of the United States in 1988. That same year, bin Laden meeting, Pakistan, the Egyptian terrorist leader Ayman al-Zawahiri with which he created in secret al-Qaeda (The Base).
Back in Saudi Arabia in 1990, bin Laden became radicalized and anti-American. The invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, while the Saudis refuse bin Laden’s offer to intervene with jihadists, marks a break. Banished from his country, bin Laden went into exile in Sudan. There he becomes a terrorist who finance terrorist attacks worldwide. It was not until 1995, after the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, the CIA qur suspect Osama bin Laden.
The latter returns to Afghanistan in 1996. The terrorist ready allegiance to Mullah Omar, the leader the Taliban. Al-Qaida is led by bin Laden and al-Zawahiri, and the Pakistani engineer Khalid Sheikh -Mohammed. The organization, modern and structured, develops. Only eight years after its inception the CIA discovers its existence … In May 1998, the US agency plans to remove bin Laden, but Bill Clinton considers too low threat cancels the operation. In the process, the Saudi threat Americans hitting on their soil. It will be September 11, 2001.
The documentary denounces the failure of American power to take al-Qaeda seriously and considers the second Gulf War in 2003 as an error. Finally, it analyzes the gear that led to the birth of Daech on the ruins of Iraq.
The news came, Saturday, November 28, and a veil of sadness descended on the theater director Luc Bondy, director of the Odéon- Theatre of Europe, died of pneumonia, that morning in Zurich, to 67 years. We knew the sick, but the disease was part of her life, she accompanied him for so many years, and he overcame so it seemed like a phoenix, reborn always. In July, he had gone to Switzerland to heal.
He had to stage Othello , Shakespeare, from late January. He was pushed back to the next season the show he spoke beautifully, as always when he was preparing a creation. It was a bird with paradise of colors, in the words of his friend Peter Stein, with whom he worked at the Schaubühne of Berlin in the 1980s: a multiple man, changeable, bright, limpid and elusive. His theater like him twirling of life, eager to desire, tinged with fleeting shadows, one of which was that of History
Luc Bondy belonged to a Jewish family after the Mitteleuropa.. His grandfather, Fritz Bondy, had directed the theater in Prague. His father, François Bondy, journalist and intellectual, fled to Zurich to escape Nazism. This is where Luc Bondy is born, July 17, 1948. But it was in France that he spent most of his childhood and adolescence.
Glory the Schaubühne
After being trained in the school of Jacques Lecoq, he left for Germany in 1969 and began working in the theater. Witkiewicz, Ionesco, Fassbinder, Büchner and Goethe among the first authors he staged in Göttingen, Hamburg, Nuremberg or Düsseldorf. His style distinguishes him, his fame grew quickly. It leads to the early 1980s at the Schaubühne in Berlin, the largest stage in Europe.
The Schaubühne is a collective that brings together several directors, including Peter Stein and Klaus-Michael Gruber, two exceptional figures, with radically different styles, and actors of first magnitude: Bruno Ganz, Jutta Lampe, Edith Clever, Otto Sander, Angela Winkler … It is also, in the orbit of the Schaubühne, the playwright Botho Strauss, who writes for the troupe. It becomes a theater companion and a friend, Luc Bondy, who created several of his pieces ( Kalldewey , The Guide , Time and Room …) in the 1980 In those years, he made his debut in France, where the invites Patrice Chéreau, who heads the Theatre Nanterre-Amandiers. His first creation, Foreign Earth , by Arthur Schnitzler in 1984, is an event that marked the decade. Rediscovery of an author, finding a director
His appointment at the Odeon Theatre of Europe is controversial
From this point, Luc Bondy is divided between Paris and Berlin. Always between two planes, two projects, several lives. His friendships are many dating his thirst never dries up, its read appetite, fueled by insomnia is unquenchable: wherever he goes, he has a book in his hand, that he often gives, when the read. Sometimes the disease slows, he talks about it, puts it in life, he continues, is expanding its circle staged, cities, functions. From 1985 to 1987 he succeeded Peter Stein in the direction of the Schaubühne Berlin. From 2003-2013, he led the Wiener Festwochen, the prestigious Vienna Festival. In March 2012, the announcement of his appointment at the Odeon Theatre of Europe, in Paris, replacing Olivier Py, raises a big controversy.
Luc Bondy made front. It’s always forehead, in his way. Either by the attack, either by dodging. He’s keen intelligence, and he knows the strength of his art, making it one of the first directors in Europe, theater and opera, where he signed anthology productions, especially The Tour nut (Benjamin Britten music) or Julie ( Philippe Boesmans).
On his way in the years 1990 and 2000, there is Peter Handke, Ibsen, Guitry, Racine, Beckett, Yasmina Reza, Martin Crimp, Ionesco, Marivaux, Molière … Luc Bondy liked varied genres, and would have liked give a coat of arms to the theater says boulevard. We could stop at many of its stagings. Each had a color. All were based primarily on distributions, as Luc Bondy chosen with extreme care. He also said that when the choice of actors was done, 80% of the work was
This course was both true and false, as everything he said. Value its about standing at the moment in which he expressed them. They were ephemeral, like the theater, Luc Bondy was not looking to revolutionize. He lived in the manner of a house where everything vibrates, any noise, shouts or whispers, cries or love. This is what was beautiful in his staging. Hear and feel all palpitements of life
Luc Bondy was a pure product of Mitteleuropa which he had the refinement and eclecticism. Born in 1948 in Zurich, son of Jewish intellectuals of German and Austro-Hungarian origin, raised in Switzerland and France, he began his career in Germany, led the famous Schaubühne Berlin and the Vienna Festival for twelve years before returning to Paris three years ago to take the direction of the Odeon Theatre of Europe.
This small man with bright eyes never walked without a book in French or even more often in German. Perfect bilingual, he admitted not knowing what language he dreamed.
In 45 years, Luc Bondy has staged more than 60 operas and 16 rooms on all major stages of Europe, adapting both Gombrowicz, Botho Strauss, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Schnitzler and that Molière, Marivaux which he said “ addict ” and Yasmina Reza contemporary author.
On Twitter, the Minister of Culture Fleur Pellerin said she was “ shocked ” of his death, praising “ a sharp understanding of dramaturgy and stage “. For Francois Hollande, Luc Bondy “ embodied by his personal story and exceptional work, the culture of Europe “.
The former minister Jack Lang suggests a “ wonderful director of actors (…) rich of rare erudition. ”
” I thought immortal Luc “, told AFP the stage designer Richard Peduzzi, author of the scenery” Tartuffe “set up in Vienna and reassembled in Paris last year . “ I’ve always known with health problems “.
– Rehearsals for bed –
At 25, a first cancer strikes. There will be several. Health troubles punctuate his life: in 2009, he will direct from a bed on stage rehearsals at the Opera de Paris. “ I have always acted as if nothing had happened, I lived, I had fun “, he confided.
He travels to debut in Germany amount Genet, Ionesco, Goethe, Fassbinder tells him “ Freedom in Bremen ” (1972) and the international fame arrived in 1973 with “ Sea ” Edward Bond in Munich.
From 1974-1976, he worked in Frankfurt and Peter Stein calls the Schaubühne. He began to combine theater and opera, with “ Lulu ” Berg (1977) in Hamburg.
In total, it will stage six operas from Monteverdi to Britten through Mozart Verdi and above.
Luc Bondy returns to France in 1984 by Patrice Chéreau which then directs the Theatre des Amandiers in Nanterre: it goes up there “ Foreign Earth ” by Arthur Schnitzler, he draw in 1988 one of the three films.
In 2000 in Vienna, he goes “ Three Lives ” by Yasmina Reza, author find it regularly. Then in 2001, takes the leadership of the prestigious Festival of Vienna that it will keep twelve.
In 2012, he was appointed to head the Odeon Theatre, after a heated debate related to the non-renewal of his predecessor Olivier Py, who will take the leadership in the wake of the Festival of Avignon.
Two years after his appointment, he recognized “ take a lot of pleasure ” to the direction of the Odeon. Not content to invite the greatest European directors (Ivo van Hove, Romeo Castellucci, Thomas Ostermeier, Peter Stein …), it brought at the Odeon young French generation Bellorini Jean Julien Gosselin, Thomas Jolly .
His own stage at the Odeon are successful: “ The false confidences ” with Isabelle Huppert and Louis Garrel, “ Tartuffe ” with Micha Lescot, also star of “ Ivanov ” with Marina Hands.
Luc Bondy, himself married to actress Marie-Louise Bischofberger and father of twins, was much loved actors, he accompanied with finesse and warmth. He had managed to create around him a small “ Family ” loyal actors. As Micha Lescot who said of him: “ What it offers me, I want to go “.
Luc Bondy was a pure product of Mitteleuropa which he had the refinement and eclecticism. Born in 1948 in Zurich, son of Jewish intellectuals of German and Austro-Hungarian origin, raised in Switzerland and France, he began his career in Germany, led the famous Schaubühne Berlin and the Vienna Festival for twelve years before returning to Paris three years ago to take the direction of the Odeon Theatre of Europe.
This small man with bright eyes never walked without a book in French or even more often in German. Perfect bilingual, he admitted not knowing what language he dreamed.
In 45 years, Luc Bondy has staged more than 60 operas and 16 rooms on all major stages of Europe, adapting both Gombrowicz, Botho Strauss, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Schnitzler and that Molière, Marivaux which he said “ addict ” and Yasmina Reza contemporary author.
On Twitter, the Minister of Culture Fleur Pellerin said she was “ shocked ” of his death, praising “ a sharp understanding of dramaturgy and stage “. For Francois Hollande, Luc Bondy “ embodied by his personal story and exceptional work, the culture of Europe “.
The former minister Jack Lang suggests a “ wonderful director of actors (…) rich of rare erudition. ”
” I thought immortal Luc “, told AFP the stage designer Richard Peduzzi, author of the scenery” Tartuffe “set up in Vienna and reassembled in Paris last year . “ I’ve always known with health problems “.
– Rehearsals for bed –
At 25, a first cancer strikes. There will be several. Health troubles punctuate his life: in 2009, he will direct from a bed on stage rehearsals at the Opera de Paris. “ I have always acted as if nothing had happened, I lived, I had fun “, he confided.
He travels to debut in Germany amount Genet, Ionesco, Goethe, Fassbinder tells him “ Freedom in Bremen ” (1972) and the international fame arrived in 1973 with “ Sea ” Edward Bond in Munich.
From 1974-1976, he worked in Frankfurt and Peter Stein calls the Schaubühne. He began to combine theater and opera, with “ Lulu ” Berg (1977) in Hamburg.
In total, it will stage six operas from Monteverdi to Britten through Mozart Verdi and above.
Luc Bondy returns to France in 1984 by Patrice Chéreau which then directs the Theatre des Amandiers in Nanterre: it goes up there “ Foreign Earth ” by Arthur Schnitzler, he draw in 1988 one of the three films.
In 2000 in Vienna, he goes “ Three Lives ” by Yasmina Reza, author find it regularly. Then in 2001, takes the leadership of the prestigious Festival of Vienna that it will keep twelve.
In 2012, he was appointed to head the Odeon Theatre, after a heated debate related to the non-renewal of his predecessor Olivier Py, who will take the leadership in the wake of the Festival of Avignon.
Two years after his appointment, he recognized “ take a lot of pleasure ” to the direction of the Odeon. Not content to invite the greatest European directors (Ivo van Hove, Romeo Castellucci, Thomas Ostermeier, Peter Stein …), it brought at the Odeon young French generation Bellorini Jean Julien Gosselin, Thomas Jolly .
His own stage at the Odeon are successful: “ The false confidences ” with Isabelle Huppert and Louis Garrel, “ Tartuffe ” with Micha Lescot, also star of “ Ivanov ” with Marina Hands.
Luc Bondy, himself married to actress Marie-Louise Bischofberger and father of twins, was much loved actors, he accompanied with finesse and warmth. He had managed to create around him a small “ Family ” loyal actors. As Micha Lescot who said of him: “ What it offers me, I want to go “.
The first time I saw a staging by Luc Bondy, it was in 1989, at the Théâtre du Rond-Point. Already famous and confirmed there had The Way Solitaire , by Arthur Schnitzler, refined conversation a bitter anything on the requirements of aesthetics: misfortune can be the price of the class, the rank. Bondy at the top of his art, are directed particularly Didier Sandre, camped inflexible aristocrat whose way of smoking, cigarette tense at the end of the fingertips, signed social condition. Incarnation of despair, the inevitable misfortune, growing by crushing its victims. A long ramp was rolled along the scenery, like a destiny …
In recent years, the coldness of his acting direction, its mineral vision of the stage space and relationships between characters had dated his work. With A Spanish play , by Yasmina Reza, 2004, or Return , by Harold Pinter in 2012, at the Odeon, he raised more skepticism aback that enthusiasm. The bitterness of his vision of the human species unless prior bothered in an era that replaces the lost illusions by empathy, and ideology by antidepressants. Nevertheless, Bondy kept through its ability to generate the bark of the words the political strength of theatrical texts. His ultimate staging, Ivanov , has conquered the public.
Director eraser borders
Luc Bondy was emblematic of this generation of directors cerebral and esthétisants, anxious to cultivate in the actors a powerful game and puncher, this generation that pierced in seventy years before dominating for two decades in Europe scenes. It is the common characteristic of these demiurges emerged after May 68 they have erased the boundaries, creating Switzerland, Italy, Germany, France, Spain or Great Britain with the same ambition. Peter Brook, Patrice Chéreau, Matthias Langhoff, Stuart Seide, Nichet Jacques, Jean-Pierre Vincent, Giorgio Strehler, Lluis Pasqual and many others, with a few decades apart, built the first European theater of history, as Jacques Copeau their elders, Jean Dasté, Jean Vilar and Georges Planchon had worn decentralization.
It was quite logical in this case to find this German and French speaking Switzerland at the head of the Odeon Theatre of Europe, although his appointment by the will of Nicolas Sarkozy, at a price the eviction of Olivier Py, controversy nimba this ultimate mission.
The great Swiss director Luc Bondy has died at the age of 67 years. Ill for many years, he was head of the Odeon Theatre of Europe since 2012.
The disease had accompanied most of his life. Each time, he overcame and set to work. The director, writer, filmmaker died this morning at the age of 67 years. Director of the Odeon, the last stage is a masterpiece of delicacy and depth, Ivanov Chekhov.
There was in him intractable childhood . Nothing could bring him down. Nothing prevented to dream, to plan, to share. To stage. He directs his actors as fine lectures, he writes himself novels, essays, short stories, poems or running movies, there was always in him that strength, that candor also, who were nothing seemed ever having to stop.
And then the sad news fell this morning. Luc Bondy died on this beautiful sunny day late autumn, a beautiful day at the Chekhov one day that will not stop the tears of those who love him forever. He had 67 years on July 18, while his Ivanov Chekhov had triumphed at the Odeon he headed past few seasons. The show had been taken at the beginning of the season and still had a hero’s welcome. He was then hospitalized. His wife Marie-Louise had returned to work. It is her first that we think and their children, wonderful twins
For a long time the name of Luc Bondy had circulated in France before finally somebody did come.: it was Patrice Chéreau who invited him to Nanterre-Amandiers soon as he took charge of the theater in the 1980s It was in 1984 Foreign Earth Schnitzler and no one ever forgot the extraordinary sight and sound of tennis balls exchanged on the large chainring. There was Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier. While a troupe that remained loyal and loves and admires him for ever.
He loved actors
A master stroke, but it was not the first . The son of François Bondy (1915-2003) intellectual and Swiss philosopher (Luc Bondy was born in Zurich) began very early and spent his youth in Paris following courses including Jacques Lecoq and starting early as Eugène Ionesco assistant , a friend of his father assembled for a show in Hamburg.
For in 1969, in Germany he began his directorial career, amount Genet, Shakespeare, Goethe, all great writers who accompanied him throughout his life. From 1974 he was at the theater in Frankfurt and continues to seek deep and light shows in which actors have primary responsibility. He loved actors and this is the humanity of his productions at the theater as opera, which hit the most.
He then in Cologne and directed Gombrowicz and his always Shakespeare expensive, but it also addresses Beckett.
Next come the radiant years of the Schaubühne Berlin where he became co-director with two playwrights in 1985. He succeeds Peter Stein. He remained until 1987.
It is in this period, particularly fertile and brilliant of his life that had called Chéreau in Nanterre. It was in those years that the French public learned to reckon with him. What great memories! For instance The Winter’s Tale Shakespeare at the Avignon Festival in 1987 with the faithful, Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier, Nada Strancar among others. In 1989, The Lonely Way Schnitzler, with Didier Sandre, André Dussollier, the late Jerome Nicolin particular.
Meanwhile, Luc Bondy continues to stage works for the European opera. In Vienna, Berlin, London, Brussels. We can not list all the titles here, but every time the depth of the shows is praised by all the critics and extolled by the public.
Shakespeare, Chekhov, Schnitzler
This is Luc Bondy never stops working and if disease recurrence, he always finds a way to win on it and enjoy convalescence periods to read and read again. He always returned to the same companions: Shakespeare, Chekhov, Schnitzler. But he neglected nothing in the contemporary repertoire, Botho Strauss Yasmina Reza as he staged in German but also in French, including La Madeleine.
For years, he was director of the Festival Vienna. He made a place where the best of European creativity, and beyond Europe had an appointment.
France was his country’s life and culture. He had dreamed a moment to direct the Bouffes du Nord after Peter Brook he considered one of his teachers; his appointment in 2012 as head of the Théâtre de l’Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, was a little brutal – with the return of Olivier Py very well leading the institution.
But who will deny that it has, with its excellent artistic teams, technical, administrative, done an excellent job at the Odeon. He had the grief of seeing him die Patrice Chéreau which should have set Shakespeare scene. They got along like cats and dogs sometimes, but the dispute was part of their nature creators.
It should, in March, to stage Othello . The show had been handed over to the next season. There was concern. They would not believe that he did not yet overcome once the disease. Physically, he had aged prematurely. Yet there was in his eyes, in his soft voice, in his manner, something of an eternal child. It is he whom we cry.
The director Luc Bondy, used of the greatest European scenes and director of one of the most prestigious French theaters, the Odeon Theatre, died in Paris at age 67, after being confronted all his life to the disease.
Luc Bondy was a pure product of Mitteleuropa which he had the refinement and eclecticism. Born in 1948 in Zurich, son of Jewish intellectuals of German and Austro-Hungarian origin, raised in Switzerland and France, he began his career in Germany, led the famous Schaubühne Berlin and the Vienna Festival for twelve years before returning to Paris three years ago to take the direction of the Odeon Theatre of Europe.
This small man with bright eyes never walked without a book is in French or more often still in German. Perfect bilingual, he admitted not knowing what language he dreamed.
In 45 years, Luc Bondy has staged more than 60 operas and 16 rooms on all major stages of Europe, adapting both Gombrowicz, Botho Strauss, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Schnitzler and that Molière, Marivaux which he said “addict” and Yasmina Reza contemporary author.
On Twitter, the Minister of Culture Fleur Pellerin expressed “upset” of his death, praising “a sharp understanding of dramaturgy and stage.” For Francois Hollande, Luc Bondy “embodied by his personal story and exceptional work, the culture of Europe.”
The former minister Jack Lang suggests a “wonderful director of actors ( …) rich of rare erudition. “
” I thought Luke immortal, “he told AFP scenographer Richard Peduzzi, the author sets his” Tartuffe “set up in Vienna and reassembled in Paris last year. “I’ve always known with health problems”
-. Rehearsals from its bed –
At 25, a first cancer strikes. There will be several. Health troubles punctuate his life: in 2009, he will direct from a bed on stage rehearsals at the Opera de Paris. “I have always acted as if nothing had happened, I lived, I had fun,” he confided.
He travels to debut in Germany amount Genet, Ionesco Goethe entrusted Fassbinder “Freedom in Bremen” (1972) and the international fame arrived in 1973 with “The Sea” by Edward Bond in Munich.
From 1974-1976, he worked in Frankfurt and Peter Stein calls the Schaubühne. He began to combine theater and opera, with “Lulu” Berg (1977) in Hamburg.
In total, it will stage six operas from Monteverdi to Britten via Verdi and especially Mozart .
Luc Bondy returns to France in 1984 by Patrice Chéreau which then directs the Theatre des Amandiers in Nanterre: it goes up there “Foreign Land” by Arthur Schnitzler, which it will derive in 1988 one his three films.
In 2000 in Vienna, he goes “Three Lives” by Yasmina Reza, author find it regularly. Then in 2001, takes the leadership of the prestigious Festival of Vienna that it will keep twelve.
In 2012, he was appointed to head the Odeon Theatre, after a heated debate related to non- renewal of his predecessor Olivier Py, who will take the leadership in the wake of the Avignon Festival.
Two years after his appointment, he recognized “take great pleasure” to the direction of the Odeon. Not content to invite the greatest European directors (Ivo van Hove, Romeo Castellucci, Thomas Ostermeier, Peter Stein …), it brought at the Odeon young French generation Bellorini Jean Julien Gosselin, Thomas Jolly .
His own stage at the Odeon are successful: “The false confidences” with Isabelle Huppert and Louis Garrel, “Tartuffe” with Micha Lescot, also star of “Ivanov” with Marina Hands.
Luc Bondy, himself married to Marie-Louise Bischofberger actress and father of twins, was much loved actors, he accompanied with finesse and warmth. He had managed to create around him a small “family” of followers actors. As Michal Lescot who said of him: “What he proposes, I want to go there”
THE LIVE – The singer is the new guest of our weekly meeting to present the delicate compositions from his new album, Our Stories
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Noted initially in the circuit of rock and alternative bars mid 1990, La Grande Sophie from Marseille has been welcomed by a wide audience throughout his successive productions. His new album, Our Stories , is perhaps what she does best.
After a severe disk, The Phantom of the space , her new songs approach life with more lightness. The inventive arrangements were designed by escorts handpicked Ludovic Bruni (guitar), Vincent Taurelle (keyboards) and Vincent Taeger (drums).
In recent years, La Grande Sophie also lends his pen to interpreters as Françoise Hardy and Sylvie Vartan. Twenty years after its debut, it can be proud of the progress. “I’m slow, I do things at my own pace,” she admits, amused.
We will be grateful to have known him become indispensable without uproars or strokes of brilliance, but by building a personal and singular work. Within the French female scene, La Grande Sophie holds a place of her own, next to those with whom she founded the ephemeral group Françoise Camille, Emily Loizeau Jeanne Cherhal and Olivia Ruiz.
After a few months of silence, the film Zack Snyder Superman Batman V offer new images to accompany an episode of the series Gotham, it also (freely) adapted from DC Comics.
The producer Charles Roven had promis a new trailer for Batman Superman V before the end of the year, and this will be done soon. According to the latest promotional video of episode 11 of the Gotham series, these new images of Zack Snyder film will broadcast this Monday, November 30th.
This episode also marks the winter break in the series, which will resume in 2016. It is not clear whether only an extract or the full trailer will air on the channel FOX, but the images should quickly find -if it is simultanément- on the web.
Batman Superman V marks the clash of two legendary heroes of the universe DC Comics, which is Very loosely based Gotham series, which belongs to a certain coherence. Marvel had already done the same disseminating new images of his films during the SHIELD Agents episodes.
The latest trailer dated “Batman Superman V” with Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill:
VIDEO – Alexandre Tharaud has accompanied the soprano Natalie Dessay this morning during the ceremony commemorating the terrorist attacks of November 13. For Le Figaro , he confided his impressions, and reveals some surprising anecdotes about this concert so solemn.
LE FIGARO – With Natalie Dessay, you have performed the song Perlimpinpin Barbara to honor the victims. Why this title
ALEXANDRE THARAUD – This is one of my favorite songs. At the same time, I think it was most appropriate to the context. These are the words of a great artist who angrily oppose the war and weapons, tenderness and heart. For me, there was no song about more than this: because since this happened, it has only one desire is to hold hands. That’s what holds us. It needs to be set. In all my life I had never felt such a surge of fraternity from all religions. This song is going towards the other, and tender his arms. This song is to understand each other, to love and today there are only how we will recover.
How have you been embarked on this adventure?
I had expressed this preference to France last Sunday Music. I was told that this song, for me, was the most accurate in the light of events. Then the Ministry of Culture called me to ask me to do so. It should not be easy for them to determine what works and artists that would constitute an appropriate accompaniment, the music he had to surround these families.
How did you prepared to pay this tribute?
We really have repeated last night. It was a wire and extremely moving. We want to cry. And this morning we got up at 6am to come on site. Although I have the habit of playing, Barbara is perhaps all the French songwriters more difficult to interpret, particularly with regard to singing. I made some arrangements for the occasion. Amount on stage, Nathalie said she was afraid of collapsing … There was a quiet very heavy, very heavy. The music of silence arose and was all the more telling that gave meaning.
And the piano?
This is the same than the one I recorded the disc of the Goldberg Variations for my disk. A sublime piano with whom I used to play. He spent the whole night outside cozy and warm despite the freezing. The state has hired and was retuned this morning.
Have you had time to exchange a few words with President Francois Hollande?
He left too early unfortunately. And I did not stay long either. We had to leave families at the end of the ceremony. I was illegitimate to stay there, I preferred to leave those who needed to talk to them.
As a musician, do you think that music notes are stronger than bullets?
No, not stronger than bullets. However, as a performer, I can be a bandage, that is to say that playing the music of Bach, I can forget a few seconds to pain sufferers. And if I can be with music ointment, bandage a wound, well then I have a reason to live.
