Netflix’s ‘To Each, Her Own’ Is An Ambitious, Overcomplicated French Film

 

Some movies are so thoroughly mediocre that you just want to yell at them to be better. That is the case with the French romantic comedy To Each, Her Own. The story is bursting with ideas, so many ideas, in fact, that it could’ve been something great. Instead, To Each, Her Own, much like its protagonist, wants it all. By trying to speak to so many ideas, the movie ends up saying very little. The ambition of director Myriam Aziza (who also co-wrote the script with Denyse Rodriguez-Tome) is admirable. However, her Netflix film badly needs someone who can rein in the unwieldy script [ . . . ]

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Victor Hugo à gros traits

From September 13, 2018 to January 6, 2019, the Maison Victor Hugo presents an exhibition an exhibition around the public image of Victor Hugo through the style of caricature. The poet’s fame and political commitment made him a favorite subject of the caricaturists of his time who often sketched him rather roughly and sometimes even ferociously. Among these renowned designers, it will be possible to find prestigious signatures such as Daumier, Doré, Cham, Gill, Lepetit, Nadar  [ … ]

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Watch Rocky Horror in the Paris Catacombs 

 

Halloween is here, gals and ghouls, and even though it might not be the biggest deal in France, there are still some in the country who know how to kick off the party right.

And Messy Nessy Chic, Frenchly’s favorite anti-tourist, has the scoop on where to go to find a very unusual Halloween celebration. Nessy’s motto is, “Don’t be a tourist in Paris,” and her videos capture the weird, the wild, and the mysterious lurking beneath the City of Lights. In this episode, she takes us to a screening of the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, hosted by the master of subterranean Paris known as La Cigale. “The Cicada” carved out his own amphitheater in the catacombs to screen old movies, and the creepy caverns are the perfect place for a spooky Halloween screening of this famous monster musical.

Nessy also heads to Studio Galande, which was featured in our article on what to do in Paris when it rains. For forty years this Latin Quarter cinema has done biweekly Rocky Horror showings with a full shadow cast, and the subcultural dedication rivals even that of the last few Rocky Horror theaters in New York. You won’t find it in a guidebook, but it’s not an event to be missed. Get your own tickets here, for an especially spooky — or at least sparkly — Halloween adventure.

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Christine and the Queens Performs on Colbert

Christine and the Queens is back with a new album and a very new look.

Just as Héloïse Letissier became Christine with her harem of Queens, so does Christine, now, become Chris.

The enigmatic French pop star known as Christine and the Queens put out a new record this year with a bold new face on it, a male alter-ego similar to that of Lady Gaga’s Jo Calderone. Chris, the album and the persona, explores the complexity of gender and the privileges it affords some above others. And how better to show this off visually than with an androgynous dance explosion to her song “Comme Si,” from Chris, on the set of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert? Though Letissier switched to English language songs after hitting major league international fame (a trend often found among contemporary French pop singers), the song has a wicked French refrain that will get stuck in your head and have you dancing for hours.

 

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