Murakami has inspired some fascinating adaptations (especially Hamaguchi’s recent masterpiece Drive My Car), but I was really looking forward to seeing his world brought to life in animation, which seems a natural place for his magical style. This is the debut film of composer Pierre Foldes, and it’s gorgeous - there’s a dreamy, detached quality which reminds me of Waking Life, floating through the different lives of a crumbling city.
FRANCE - CIRCA 1946: Jean-Louis Barrault (1910-1994), French actor in "Baptiste" of Jacques Prevert. Paris, Marigny theatre, October 1946. (Photo by Roger Viollet via Getty Images/Roger Viollet via Getty Images)
Celebrities wear Chanel at the 79th Venice International Film Festival
Audrey Diwan wore Chanel at the Closing Ceremony of the 79th Venice International Film Festial
Audrey Diwan, French director and member of the jury, wore a multicolor printed silk muslin dress, look 71, from the Spring-Summer 2022 Ready-to-Wear collection.
French TV journalist having a hard time trying to get woman in the street to comment on Macron's latest speech yesterday
Protesters organised casserolades (aka banging on pots and pans) in front of city halls across the country at 8pm, when Macron was speaking, to symbolically drown out his voice. Later that evening, Macron was filmed singing a song with some 'random people' in a street in Paris, trying to show he can go out and meet people and have fun because protesters don't exist. The people he was singing with (members of a choir, some of whom are 'alt-right-leaning') were using a folk song app created by far-right activists that was criticised a few months ago for hosting a Spanish fascist anthem & Third Reich military marches.
The government's response was that the President "couldn't know the background of the people he met that night." Maybe if he wants to avoid being associated with the far-right (that's a big if, I know), Macron should keep in mind that with the kinds of strategies and positioning his government has adopted lately, people in the street who welcome him with open arms and are proud to be filmed with him have a higher than average likelihood of supporting fascism.