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IIt is the event of this literary re-entry in January. The name of Michel Houellebecq is circulating on everyone’s lips, on the occasion of the release, on January 7, of his eighth novel, Annihilate, 730 pages, published by Flammarion. The first time the author is mentioned in The world, on May 3, 1991, he is unknown. On the occasion of a short review of his essay HP Lovecraft. Against the world, against life, to the Rocher editions, Alain Jacob explains that he “Is not sure that all come back satisfied”, by pointing a Lovecraft “Fundamentally racist” and particularly conservative.

A few years later, Josyane Savigneau praised the talent of the writer, including the first novel, Extension of the field of wrestling, was published in 1994 (Maurice Nadeau). She concludes her review: ?We know what the author is going to do: continue writing, which is an excellent idea for the future. “ Same enthusiasm on the part of Pierre Lepape, on August 28, 1998, for the release of Elementary particles (Flammarion) – a “Little post-Marxist treatise on amorous pauperism”. Enough to transform its author into “Real beast of the literary scene”. The sales figures, more than 500,000 copies, prove that the writer has climbed a step.

The literary community is torn apart

But the controversies are already pointing their noses. A few days later, on August 31, 1998, Jean-Luc Douin reported that a campsite � alternative � requests the seizure of the book, justifying that its activities would be described under “A perverse day”, in the book. Quoted directly, Michel Houellebecq is worried that following these threats “Writing becomes an impossible exercise”. The literary community is torn apart around this book which violently criticizes the libertarian spirit of May 68, considers the freedom offered by modern society as suffering and offers a raw vision of sexuality, contrary to all eroticism.

?I bring bad news: and we rarely forgive the bearers of bad news. �Michel Houellebecq in 1998

Excluded from the literary review Perpendicular, the interested party replies, in “Le Monde des livres” of September 18, 1998, by comparing himself to the American author Bret Easton Ellis. ?I bring bad news: and we rarely forgive the bearers of bad news. “. In her survey of November 9, 1998, Marion Van Renterghem takes stock of this literary re-entry: it is titled “The Houellebecq trial”. The journalist wonders: ?Unclassifiable, Houellebecq disturbs, divides. What is the ?position? of this writer from the left, who pays tribute in turn to Stalin and ?compassion?, to ?traditionalist Cathos? and to eugenics? “

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The literary community is torn apart

?I bring bad news: and we rarely forgive the bearers of bad news. �Michel Houellebecq in 1998

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Happy New Year! May 2022 be an incredible year, filled with health, awareness and optimism! That said, how about starting a new year still with good memories of the past year? Okay, 2021 was not the easiest of years, but the resumption of red carpet provided us with good distractions, memorable looks and that were part of our traditional retrospective!

Below I share the 3 most voted from the 4 categories and I still count my favorites.

LOOK LONGO

The contest of the year consecrated the woman of the year again: Zendaya in this beautiful sculptural leather Balmain! It is worth remembering that it was a double, as the actress also won the last edition with this green Vera Wang, remember?!

I thought it deserved and very tight, this dress has a whole different design and it was literally carved in Zendaya, a look that we will remember for a long time! Just behind another unforgettable look, Kate Middleton the very sun of Jenny Packham. In 3rd, Kendall Jenner and her impeccable look that stopped the Met Ball!

MY VOTE: I agree with you and I also give an honorable mention to an iconic look: the black Schiaparelli by Bella Hadid with the golden detail that evokes a lung. The brand has been the biggest moment in fashion and this Cannes look impressed me.

lda 2021 curto

LOOK CURTO

Short looks are always adorable, fun and out of the blue! This season the dispute was extremely fierce and only ended at the end: her victory, who re-emerged as the streaming phoenix, Sarah Jessica Parker with this Oscar de la Renta tailored to her essence Carrie Bradshaw!

Right behind, Kendall in Givenchy’s post-MET and a look that deserved an official photo and not a paparazzi at the end of the ballad. Running outside was Zendaya once again in a Valentino Balloon.

My vote: 1000 times SJP and honorable mention for Leslie Grace’s fringed short and Di Petsa with wet look from Brazilian muse Sabrina Sato!

lda 2021 calc?a

LOOK PANTS/COVERALLS

A fundamental step, pants and jumpsuits that invaded the red carpet in recent years! They often cause more commotion and impact than a short or long one, I think it’s too beautiful!

And in 2021, taking everyone by surprise, it was her moment: Phoebe Waller Bridge, the iconic Fleabag! This Azzaro look even had the complementary impact of the cape/coat and was 100% iconic! A little while ago, Kim Kardashian and her pink Balenciaga birdie look that stopped the street in NY. Still on the podium, adorable Amanda Seyfried from Miu Miu!

My vote: I confess that this one from Kim moved me, but who deserves an honorable mention is Michaela Coel, also from Balenciaga Bright Blue, at the Met Gala.

lda 2021 homens

LOOK MASCULINO

In this category that proves to be the most innovative and surprising, it didn’t give to anyone else: Reg� Jean Page won with a lot of margin, praise, grace and elegance! That emerald green suit, the detail of the vest, the chain? sighs, what a man!

Close behind, the iconic Lewis Hamilton at the Met and Timoth�e ChalametALIZADO in Cannes.

My vote: impossible not to vote for Reg�, but recording the excellent year of the irreverent fashionista Lil Nas X!

May 2022 reserve us more amazing and memorable looks!

Below I share the 3 most voted from the 4 categories and I still count my favorites.

LOOK LONGO

lda 2021 curto

LOOK CURTO

Right behind, Kendall in Givenchy’s post-MET and a look that deserved an official photo and not a paparazzi at the end of the ballad. Running outside was Zendaya once again in a Valentino Balloon.

My vote: 1000 times SJP and honorable mention for Leslie Grace’s fringed short and Di Petsa with wet look from Brazilian muse Sabrina Sato!

lda 2021 calc?a

LOOK PANTS/COVERALLS

A fundamental step, pants and jumpsuits that invaded the red carpet in recent years! They often cause more commotion and impact than a short or long one, I think it’s too beautiful!

My vote: I confess that this one from Kim moved me, but who deserves an honorable mention is Michaela Coel, also from Balenciaga Bright Blue, at the Met Gala.

lda 2021 homens

LOOK MASCULINO

Close behind, the iconic Lewis Hamilton at the Met and Timoth�e ChalametALIZADO in Cannes.

My vote: impossible not to vote for Reg�, but recording the excellent year of the irreverent fashionista Lil Nas X!

May 2022 reserve us more amazing and memorable looks!

Claudia Andrieu spends her days hunting down counterfeits. The legal manager of Picasso Administration, a structure that manages the rights to the Spaniard’s work, is looking for those who loot the artist’s name and images for commercial purposes. His actions, brought in the field of copyright and trademark law, can no longer be counted.

But with the popularity of NFT (non-fungible tokens, or non-fungible tokens), those lines of code that refer to a certificate of authenticity in a blockchain, she no longer knows where to turn.

?It’s a real madness. A wild world, deregulated both in terms of intellectual property and tax law. �Claudia Andrieu, lawyer

OpenSea, the only digital platform specializing in the sale of NFT, displays no less than 2.2 million hits with the name Picasso. In September, she removed from a sale at Christie’s an NFT by artist Trevor Jones representing Picasso’s bull in an animated version that can be found today on? OpenSea. “It’s a real madness, thunders Claudia Andrieu. A wild world, deregulated both in terms of intellectual property and tax law. ” In November, the lawyer came across a platform, Picassol.io, which claims to sell NFTs of works by Picasso.

The cup is full: Picasso Administration launches, on November 27, an action against the disputed site, now blocked. “Picasso’s NFTs which reproduce all or part of the artist’s works are counterfeit”, insists the lawyer Jean-Jacques Neuer, who represents the heirs, recalling that to this day they “Have neither put Picasso’s NFTs on the market, nor given third parties the right to do so”.

Like the families of famous artists, brands are also starting to pull out their claws. So of the luxury house Herm�s, which announced, via the Financial Times, qu’she did not license artist Mason Rothschild’s MetaBirkins, digital replicas of the Birkin handbag, emblematic model of the French saddler. “Even if, for the moment, no legal provision expressly envisages digital reproductions, in this case in the form of NFT, these cannot escape intellectual property rights”, insists lawyer Julie Jacob.

An array transformed into a digital token

Legal puzzles, speculative objects? These virtual tokens now worry, amaze and upset the art world. ?Before, sales catalogs included Van Gogh, Picasso and Basquiat, recalls the modern art broker Thomas Seydoux. We were purring? until the NFTs appeared. “ In his eyes, this is the event “The most disruptive” that the art world has known since the creation of the Internet.

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But with the popularity of NFT (non-fungible tokens, or non-fungible tokens), those lines of code that refer to a certificate of authenticity in a blockchain, she no longer knows where to turn.

?It’s a real madness. A wild world, deregulated both in terms of intellectual property and tax law. �Claudia Andrieu, lawyer

An array transformed into a digital token

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In the meantime, I think about all the new things to come: the new year, a new coalition agreement, a new cabinet. What does this mean for us? For our colleagues? There is uncertainty. Will I still be a farmer tomorrow? And how? Lots of questions and it’s looking for the answers.

We must not forget the earning model of farmers in the transition to circular agriculture, which the cabinet has in mind. What does that revenue model entail? Installing an IV to the government to keep the farmer alive? Offer the farmer all kinds of compensation for social tasks such as promoting meadow birds and perhaps raising the water level in a peat meadow area to prevent peat oxidation? In a different way will farmers start to control more mechanical weeds, use organic fertilizers instead of fertilizers and so on?

I am concerned about the following sentence in the coalition agreement: ‘This covenant forms the legal basis which will come into effect in the coming cabinet term for animal husbandry in balance with public health.’ Are we going to make Dutch legislation much stricter than European legislation to realize animal husbandry?
One thing I know for sure. If much stricter legal standards are introduced without an import ban for products from elsewhere, then the farmer will be the victim. The Dutch farmer cannot compete with the foreign farmer if there are too many additional legal requirements in Dutch legislation. Our cost price is then too high in relation to other countries.

I believe that we can take steps forward together within chains and with social organizations. This can be done by working together instead of working against each other. Searching for solutions together. Together we look at what we mean by nature. Working together to give animals a better life. I can well imagine that nature changes and yet can be very beautiful and good. How can we practically fulfill that animal-worthy life? What goals can we achieve together? Together we can also discuss the conditions under which.

An example of how not to do it: Better Life 1 star pig. There will be a higher Dutch statutory surface area requirement for fattening pigs. Result: the farmer receives less for his pig. So all Dutch pigs have gotten a little better, but the Beter Leven farmer gets less for his pig. Because he gets less compensation. This is thanks to stricter Dutch legislation. In fact, however, nothing has changed for the Better Life pig.

We can only prevent this by within chains to make good agreements with each other. About the requirements you will set for the living environment for animals, for the cultivation of crops, etc. Only then can we take steps. Then consumers can pay for the extra value they receive. It is strange that more and more demands are made on farmers. It seems quite logical to me. Yet the earning model for farmers remains a hot item.

For the first time, there is scope to set a farmer’s price independently of the world market price. It’s in its infancy, but it can grow into a gem

Still, I see bright spots on the horizon. Take a look at the premature new chains for Albert Heijn and PLUS when it comes to pigs with Better Life one star. About the Beter Leven 1 star for chicken. For the first time, there is scope to set a farmer’s price independently of the world market price. It is in its infancy, but it can grow into a gem.

For ourselves, I hope that in the new year we can also take new steps for Hamletz, Annechien’s free-range meat. We must be able to sell all parts of our pig well in order to become economically viable. We are looking for another customer, especially for the hams. That must be doable. I also really want to understand our consumers better. Why do they buy, how can we persuade them to change their habits and choose more sustainable/animal friendly?

What I know is that Randstad politicians can never pour this out on agriculture. It is necessary to stand with one’s feet in the clay in order to be able to properly articulate the thoughts that live there. You have to be in pain yourself to know well what the ultimate way out is or what the ultimate goal can be.

So for the new year I hope my heart doesn’t have to bleed because of the energy transition, the polarization and the crazy high energy price. I hope that together we can set goals for nature and animal welfare without the farmer losing out. I go for a good life for all: the farmer, the animal and nature. And I hope that more gems will grow in 2022 of which Hamletz is one.

For the first time, there is scope to set a farmer’s price independently of the world market price. It’s in its infancy, but it can grow into a gem

A lightning ascent. At 30, Marine Serre is one of the most prominent figures in current French fashion. His eponymous label, launched in 2017, has continued to climb the steps of desirability, its famous ?moon? logo being worn around the world by singers Beyonc� and Adele, as well as by the stars of the K- group. Korean pop Blackpink or reality TV starlet Nabilla.

Its hybrid fashion is shaped thanks to recovered, cut and reworked fabrics, to imagine ?upcycled? silhouettes, halfway between sportswear, utility, big night and do-it-yourself. Her denims are dyed, her colorful dresses are made of assembled silk scarves, her shirts come from vintage tablecloths or tea towels with red borders so recognizable … In the premises of her brand, which occupy several floors of a building in the north of Paris, a huge room is devoted to sorting vintage T-shirts, woolen blankets or even denim items.

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Winner of the LVMH prize for young designers in 2017, Marine Serre, who grew up in Corr�ze, is keen to alert people to the state of the world, especially through fashion shows with fists: we remember her spring collection – summer 2020, presented in an oil spill decor. A bias that echoes today’s issues.

Marine Serre, ?Fichu pour foulu? collection, spring-summer 2022.

How did you come into fashion?

My mother dressed very well, even though we didn’t have a lot of money. She had a great sense of style and color. My grandfather, who was a second-hand dealer, was also very important in my learning. He collected a lot of worthless objects, jugs, key rings, glasses? I think that, for me, it mainly developed in adolescence, when you become aware of your own body. At that age, we are looking for an identity. I lived in the deep countryside, there were no big chains, from Zara, so I scoured thrift stores a lot.

When I was 13, I went to boarding school at La Souterraine, near Limoges. There was a great thrift store where everything was at 1 euro. My wardrobe blew up at that point. It ranged from belts to coats to dresses. I really discovered the garment through vintage pieces.

Recovery, the ?upcycled? side, was it already at the heart of your concerns during your fashion studies?

I started by studying applied art, where we did art in general, drawing but also furniture. Back then, making a jacket or a chair was the same process for me. I then specialized in fashion, first during a BTS in Marseille, then at the La Cambre school, in Brussels, where I deepened my technical knowledge. As a student, I was already working with recycled materials, with the end of stocks, I was taking clothes apart? I had this love for vintage anchored in me.

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How did you come into fashion?

Recovery, the ?upcycled? side, was it already at the heart of your concerns during your fashion studies?

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Jumbo will not make any announcements about the financial side of the collaboration. Well say Ton van Veen, financial director of Jumbo, that the Brabant supermarket chain is also investigating other forms of cooperation, such as combining supermarkets and ‘dark stores’, the warehouses from which Gorillas supplies its bicycle couriers or taking an equity interest “in the Dutch and Belgian entity of Gorillas, or the European branch.”

With the collaboration, Jumbo is taking the flight forward. Annual figures published today show that Jumbo Group saw consumer turnover grow by 2% last year to ?9.9 billion. The online activities grew by 30% to a turnover of approximately ?650 million. But Jumbo is not going fast enough. To meet the explosively growing demand for delivery among the public, Jumbo opened no fewer than 10 new delivery hubs last year and 4 more are planned for next year (bringing the total number of regional delivery hubs to 20). Home delivery of groceries ordered online is a cost item for the Brabant chain, which is only rising further through the ceiling due to the rising raw material, transport and energy costs.

Jumbo tries to be cautious with price increases so as not to worsen its position relative to competitors, but it is “an illusion to think that the customer will not notice anything,” thus Van Veen.

The emergence of the flash deliverers with their deep pockets (venture capital) seems to offer a solution. According to Van Veen, the market is in any case shifting from supermarkets to e-commerce – ordering online and having it delivered to your home a few days later, and moving on at lightning speed “to q-commerce that delivers within ten minutes. If the customer changes, you can do two things: not getting involved, usually not the best method, or entering into the partnership.” Q-commerce stands for quick commerce: quickly arranging orders.

Flash delivery companies Gorillas, Getir, Zapp and Flink are now active in our country. Instead of building its own fast delivery service, with the associated infrastructure and riders, Jumbo has opted for Gorillas, the fastest growing start-up in Europe. Jumbo will soon deliver various A-brand, Jumbo Private Label, organic and exclusive La Place products to the Gorillas dark stores and the Gorillas couriers will deliver the items ordered by the customer.

In the Volkskrant calls City logistics lecturer and Foodlog columnist Walther Ploos van Amstel called the Jumbo collaboration “a smart move. ‘If you can’t beat them, join them.” The latter is already happening in several countries in Europe. For example, Gorillas has already entered into partnerships with the British supermarket chain Tesco (Great Britain) and Casino Group (France). The French supermarket group Carrefour got involved in the flash delivery company Cajoo. Meal deliverer Just Eat Takeaway is actively looking for supermarket partners.

With an angry hand, often in felt-tip pen, other times with the help of collages, mysterious activists regularly inscribe four letters on the walls of the historic center of Arles (Bouches-du-Rh�ne). Always the same, “N”, “A”, “P”, “O”, to form a single name, declined in the plural: ” Les Napo �. It is systematically accompanied by not really benevolent words: “Les Napo, Arles hates you”; “The Napos, get out of the way”; “Napo, neoliberal Mafia”.

“Go and do your self-care elsewhere”, could we read, in September 2021, on a wall in Arles.

Place du Forum, this nerve center of the city with its statue of the writer Fr�d�ric Mistral, its bars and heated discussions, regulars believe they have solved the riddle. The Napos would either be a “Gathering of Freemasons”, or a sect. Anyway, funny guys. “Fadas”.

“You have to see them get off the TGV, quips a figure from Arles. All with their straw hats, the ladies in designer linen dresses, the men in obligatory white shirts because, of course, in Provence, as it is hot, it is well known, not everyone dresses ‘in white. Oh you know what? It looks like Tintin in Congo !��

Rickshaw bikes

Every summer, the parade is indeed funny. Regardless of whether it takes at most ten minutes on foot to reach the city center from the station, the Napos often prefer to borrow the rickshaw bikes at their disposal, like those seen in Asia. Not to mention that no Arl�sien, even in 40 � C in the shade, will ever dare to carry a boater. Rather die!

?Napoleons is to make people react, like a mnemonic device that creates controversy. �The founders of the organization

In reality, this organization is based in Paris, rue Vivienne, a stone’s throw from the Place de la Bourse. Baptized the Napoleons (without accent), it was founded in 2015 and depends on the company Momentum, created by Mondher Abdennadher, 59, and Olivier Moulierac, 54, two children of the triumphant advertising of the 1980s and 1990s, raised under the rule of their former boss, Jacques S�gu�la.

Mondher Abdennadher was born in Sfax, Tunisia, into a French-speaking and French-speaking family. Her father was a trader. He studied at the Lyc�e Carnot in Tunis before arriving in Paris and entering a business school. Then joined the RSCG advertising agency in 1985 with the main objective of opening the agency’s Middle East network.

His sidekick, Olivier Moulierac, grew up in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine) in “A family of the Parisian petty bourgeoisie”, he said. His father runs a small business specializing in advertising. He follows a schooling “Chaotic” before landing an internship at RSCG and being hired while in high school. He will stay there for fifteen years. ?We spoke with Mondher, I told him I wanted to become an entrepreneur and we created Momentum and then the Napoleons. “

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Rickshaw bikes

?Napoleons is to make people react, like a mnemonic device that creates controversy. �The founders of the organization

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In a number of western cities, tahini is the trendy tastemaker of today, or at least five years ago, in hipster America. What happens there also ends up with us after a few years, such as brewed coffee and kale. However, the jars of tahini have long been on the shelves of Levantine shops in our city. I used to look at it and wonder what you were doing with it.

Some call tahini irreverent sesame peanut butter

Peanut butter from sesame

Tahini (tahini, tahina) is a sesame seed paste. Nothing to do with tagine, although, of course, you could also put tahini in a tagine. Some disrespectfully refer to tahini as “sesame peanut butter.” This is technically understandable and the origin is the same: sesame seeds, groundnuts or peanuts (groundnut), almonds, coconuts, palm nuts and poppy seeds are ancient oil crops. That oil used to be squeezed out ? not just for cooking, oil was needed for many human activities.

Sesame from India
Of all these oil wells, sesame must be one of the oldest. So old that scientists don’t even know where it originated. Possibly in Africa, but one is not entirely sure. For science the plant is called Sesamum indicum, which means ‘sesame from India’. This plant belongs to the Pedaliaceae, a small family related to the legumes, the bean family so to speak. Sesame is therefore not a cereal. Most of the other plants of that family are of African origin, but they can also be found in India and even Australia.

Four thousand years ago, sesame was grown in Babylonia and Assyria. Now sesame seeds are harvested from China and India through the Middle East and Sudan to Brazil and Mexico. The latter two would be the largest producers. However, the hippest is the sesame from Ethiopia, even though that country has lost international sympathy in the last year.

open Sesame
After flowering, the plant produces seed pods that suddenly pop open (‘Sesame open you’) and spread their oil-rich treasure. The plants are therefore harvested just before maturity, so that they can pop open in a controlled space and the seed is not lost.

Without tahini, these specialties are a lot less attractive

So the oil was squeezed out. After that, press cake remains. Today, peanut and soya pressed cake is sold to livestock, where they are sometimes worth more than the oil itself. But of course you can also eat it yourself: peanut butter, tahini, tofu. The press cake is then made spreadable with cheaper oil.

What are you doing with it? You can of course spread tahini on the sandwich, but in the Middle East, where tahini is most commonly used in cooking, they usually don’t eat sandwiches. You can dilute it a bit with the gravy of the fried meat to make a delicious sauce. You can also mix them with the vegetables at the end of the stew: green beans with tahini, a touch of strong pepper and fish sauce, for example.

In the ordinary kitchen, tahini is mainly used in the very trendy chickpea puree hummus, but also in the trendy balls of bean puree: falafel. Without tahini, these specialties are a lot less attractive.

But think about tahini in pastries, in pie fillings, in marinades. Just about everything gets better. Tasty.

Some call tahini irreverent sesame peanut butter

Peanut butter from sesame

Without tahini, these specialties are a lot less attractive

But think about tahini in pastries, in pie fillings, in marinades. Just about everything gets better. Tasty.

St�phane Bak, in Paris, November 28, 2021.

We are looking in the very tall and athletic silhouette of St�phane Bak for something of the weakling adolescent who, ten years ago, wrote a column on the set of the ?Grand Journal? and made Michel Denisot curl up with his clumsy valves. This had lasted the time of a Cannes Film Festival and two seasons of the show on Canal +. Then, in the eye of what was then called “the youngest comedian in France”, maturity arrived. St�phane Bak has become an actor.

His banter, his charismaentertainer have won over directors like Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar (who gave her her first ” true “ role in 2014, in The heirs), Paul Verhoeven (She) or Wes Anderson (The French Dispatch). In 2019, he went on to two leading roles. In Roads, of the German Sebastian Schipper, St�phane Bak is a young Congolese on his way to France, who embarks on an improbable journey with an Englishman who has broken up his family. In Farewell to the night, by Andr� T�chin�, he plays a rigorous imam who organizes the departure for Syria of a young white man in search of meaning.

Speak to first-hand witnesses

Two years later, at the age of 25, here he is on the bill Twist in Bamako, the new feature film by the figure of committed auteur cinema, Robert Gu�diguian. A period film, shot in Africa, where Bak becomes Samba, the privileged son of a wealthy entrepreneur who tries to propagate socialist ideology in Mali, after independence.

To prepare for the role and learn more about Senegal (where the film was shot) and Mali (where the story takes place), St�phane Bak wanted to speak to direct witnesses. ?There is a large Senegalese community in Blanc-Mesnil [Seine-Saint-Denis], where I grew up, he explains. I also asked some Malian friends to tell me about this time, and spoke with people who were in Bamako at the beginning of the 1960s and had lived this period of revolutionary celebration which followed independence. “

He says it with modesty, but with this film, it is also the story of his own family that he intends to get closer and thus explore his “Africanness”: ” Twist in Bamako, it’s also an opportunity to make a film that speaks to my parents, to my genealogy ?, he explains evoking his father, who “Basked in French politics, and went to the headquarters of the PS rue de Solferino for the elections.”

Determination and life force

St�phane Bak is one of the first young people on whom the profession keeps an eye. But her skin color is not without consequence. From the start of his film career, he dreams of roles that take him ” far from [lui]– even and from where we [l]?attend��, but at the beginning, it is the proposals of comedies which flow. “On paper, I have nothing, he specifies, but the roles that I am offered are sometimes discriminating and not very inventive. ” He remembers the script for a movie that ended up making “More than 4 million admissions” and or “The joke was that I smile in the dark and that I can be recognized by my teeth?” He specifies : ?It was not in 1980, but in 2016! “

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Speak to first-hand witnesses

Determination and life force

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