The second, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday evening, in the large Pierre-Boulez hall of the Cité de la Musique, will mix percussion and dance. The opportunity to discover the subtleties of the “nandir” which intertwines a ballet of six dancers and a male solo, very martial (the “baris tunggal”). This musical piece symbolically replaying the confrontation between light and darkness is a flagship of Balinese classical dance. Scholars call it “legong kraton” or narrative royal ballet. It was first performed in France in 1931. This performance then inspired Antonin Artaud to create an exceptional chapter in his book, Le Théâtre et son double. Invited by Pierre Boulez to the Aix festival in 1969, the musicians of Sebatu return to France for a ten-date French tour (after Voiron and Paris, they will be in Bordeaux, Dijon and Cannes). It’s your turn to let yourself be bewitched…
Indonesia weekend at the Cité de la Musique, from Friday 17 to Sunday 19 March. More information on the Philharmonie de Paris website.
The kidnapping and murder of Christian Democracy boss Aldo Moro dates back to 1978, but Marco Bellocchio has never ceased to obsess. After a feature film – the very beautiful Buongiorno, notte (2003) – he now devotes to this tragedy of Italian history a punchy series in six episodes, Esterno notte. While in the film he remained as much as possible in Moro’s cell, the great Italian filmmaker here accompanies the entourage – Moro’s spiritual son, Francesco Cossiga (Fausto Russo Alesi) who at the time was Minister of the Interior , Pope Paul VI (Toni Servillo), a close friend, one of the terrorists who holds him, Adriana Faranda (Daniela Marra) and finally his wife Eleonora (Margherita Buy)… This is an opportunity for Marco Bellocchio, who in the tradition of the great Italian political cinema of Francesco Rosi, to sign a fascinating work on the way in which exercising power – or aspiring to power in the case of terrorists – shapes the individual. He allows himself all audacity: fantasy scenes where Aldo Moro survives his detention, symbolic visions like this map of Rome which, under the frightened gaze of Francesco Cossiga, is covered with a pool of blood… Beyond from the political, we touch on metaphysics, on the vertigo of man in the face of death. Admirable.
“Esterno notte”, six episodes broadcast on Arte on March 15 and 16 at 8:55 p.m. and already available on arte.tv
We know very little about the author of Wuthering Heights, except that her life was short – she succumbed to tuberculosis at the age of 30 – and that she hardly left the rectory of Haworth, in Yorkshire. , where his father was a pastor. The mystery that surrounds the life of the Brontë sisters, all three passionate about writing – Charlotte will write Jane Eyre, Anne The Lady of the Wildfell Hall manor –, is a wonderful playground for actress Frances O’Connor (Mansfield Park, A.I. Artificial intelligence…) who takes her first steps here as a director. Passionate about Les Hauts de Hurlevent since adolescence, she brilliantly avoids the pitfall of the traditional biopic to give free rein to her interpretation. Of course, some will resent the liberties taken with historical truth – the passionate romance between Emily and an attractive young priest is notably disputed by several biographers – but it is above all a question of a bewitching poetic evocation. Obviously, it also and above all works thanks to the masterful interpretation of Emma Mackey (Sex Education, Eiffel, Death on the Nil), perfect as a solitary, rebellious and rebellious young soul. Her best role to date.
«Emily», by Frances O’Connor. En salle.
“The Black Monk”, by Anton Chekhov, directed by Kirill Serebrennikov at the Théâtre du Châtelet from March 16 to 19.
The dapper Franco-American-Algerian is on tour in France this week, accompanied by her “playgirls”, three retro-futuristic girls lifted from her past and projected into her future. Three girls, three personalities and three visual and sound universes punctuate his second album released in October, which earned him a selection in the prestigious list of “30 Under 30” (the 30 personalities of the year in the United States) from Forbes . Mixing electronic music, R’n’B and acid pop soaked in references from previous decades, the 28-year-old singer has also been spotted by the biggest pop star of the moment: Dua Lipa, of whom she made all her first parties in America . Madison Square Garden in New York isn’t a bad place to warm up, isn’t it?
PLAYGIRL (Because). In concert at La Cigale (Paris) on March 17, then in Lille, Dijon, Strasbourg, Lyon, Marseille…
