The lives of teenagers in cinema are usually written by adults. Everyone has been through that stage of life, yet no adult experiences society, the contemporary moment, at that age. And in a context where the pace of social change is constantly accelerating, such an...
In a world where political and social developments increasingly tend to resemble processes that the generations alive today have known only through the accounts of their elders and the history books, what is the role of cinema, and of art more broadly, in speaking in...
In the early 1960s, François Truffaut had already declared war on the traditionalism of French cinema, with the declaration that officially opened the doors of art history to the Nouvelle Vague. As a critic, he had denounced the easy path of cinematic Frenchness, which, by...
It has been 30 years since a day that belongs to the anthology of rugby, particularly remembered in France, but is also among the fundamental elements of the culture that shaped the sport during its epic evolution. On May 26, 1990, Racing Club de France,...
I gave a great deal of thought to the title of this article, which is, in fact, the answer to a question I had been asking myself over the past few years: essentially, “What happened to France?” Eventually, I decided to give this bold answer...
One of the strangest French elections of modern times is taking place today in the Hexagon, the country of the Enlightenment and the world's fifth-largest economy. Elections held against a backdrop of constantly growing uncertainty about the country's future, its economy and, above all, the...