Author: THE HOBBLEDEHOY

Michael Stevenson, aka Dai Bando, Johnny Foreigner, Monsieur Pas De Merde, is a blogger of French and British culture. His blogs "Pas De Merde" and "The Hobbledehoy" have been called "marvelous" by some, and "meh" by others.

Trailer: “Deerskin”

A man’s obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime.

Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin (THE ARTIST) is a recent divorcee in the midst of a mid-life identity crisis. In search of a new life and look, he ditches his past in a roadside petrol station and encounters a vintage, fringed deerskin jacket with influential supernatural powers. He relocates to a quiet French alpine village where he is mistaken for an independent filmmaker by an adventurous, enterprising bartender in a sleepy saloon (Adèle Haenel, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE) who happens to be an aspiring editor with natural production instincts. The two forge a tenuous allegiance and team up to collaborate on a film inspired by the visionary deerskin jacket

Portraits of Parisians mobilized during confinement, projected onto the Eiffel Tower

A tribute will be paid this Sunday May 10 to the Parisians mobilized on the ground during the confinement, announced the City of Paris in a press release this Friday. The portrait of several inhabitants of the capital will be projected on the Eiffel Tower.

They were on the front line during containment. And even since the start of the coronavirus epidemic in Paris. Caregivers, teachers, volunteers, garbage collectors … will be honored by the City of Paris this Sunday, May 10.

Portraits of caregivers, teachers, volunteers but also delivery men and agents of the City of Paris will be projected on the Eiffel Tower. The projection of these portraits will start at 9 p.m. A giant screen will be installed in front of the Eiffel Tower and a banner will broadcast the message: ” Fortunately, you were there “.

Source: Portraits of Parisians mobilized during confinement, projected on the Eiffel Tower

Beauty during pandemic: Lakmé “Duo des fleurs”

The “Flower Duet” (French: “Duo des fleurs”) is a famous duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano from Léo Delibes’ opera Lakmé, first performed in Paris in 1883. The duet takes place in act 1 of the three-act opera, between characters Lakmé, the daughter of a Brahmin priest, and her servant Mallika, as they go to gather flowers by a river.