Fri, Jun 25, 2021
As brilliant as he was detestable, obsessed with beauty, inventor of modern poetry, Charles Baudelaire abhorred his time. The poet was condemned for outrage against morality, and his life's work, "Les Fleurs du mal", was censored. Today, if many artists appropriate the words of Baudelaire, the genius remains shrouded in a dark light. For the 200th anniversary of his birth, France, which likes to celebrate its great writers, has largely forgotten the most poisonous of them. "Le doc Stupéfiant" looks at this paradox, that of a modern reactionary, an odious sublime, a misunderstood genius.
Wed, Jul 8, 2020
He is one of the giants of the New Wave, the emblematic movement that revolutionized French cinema in the 1960s. We look back at the inestimable heritage left by François Truffaut, who died in 1984. With personal accounts by Brigitte Fossey, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Macha Méril, Nicolas Bedos.