There is an easy solution to the Paris bike scheme chaos – just buy your own 

Bike-sharing schemes in Paris have been left in a disastrous state thanks to bad management and vandalism, but there is an easy solution for keen cyclists, writes Ben McPartland. And it’s far better than Velib.

“…the ambition of Paris to become a cycling city like Copenhagen has taken a huge knock, despite the city vowing to construct more cycle lanes and shift the emphasis from four wheels to two”

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Seen at Cannes 2017: Barbara 

The great lady in black of the French song inspires Mathieu Amalric with a biopic sketch in the form of a declaration of love. Sublime.

As it is difficult to pin down the singular charm of Barbara’s words, melodies and voice, it is equally perilous to sum up the poisonous and heady beauty of her weird biopic. This is perhaps the most striking proof of the success of Mathieu Amalric’s daring venture. Cleverly refusing to yield to the agreed cinematographic hagiography, the actor-director composes a very modern elegy, a succession of moments, a sum of dotted lines which draw in an impressionist way the complex and mysterious silhouette of the singer.

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Laetitia Dosch, le goût du malaise – TROISCOULEURS

A bearded realistic singer, a nude theater fighter wearing a python, an extraterrestrial man with twisted gestures, a false comic … The main actress of La Bataille de Solferino , who likes to put her audience to the test, has a reckless career as a performer. Expansive and passionate, she told us her crazy adventures

Before interviewing Laetitia Dosch, we hang out a bit on the Internet to gather some biographical elements. We could see her at the filmmaker Shanti Masud, or in the series So be they on ARTE, she played Shakespeare with Erik Ruf and danced with the Spanish performer La Ribot. On the sites of several dramatic centers, there is also talk of a show entitled Laetitia makes fart, led by a ”  talent mimic  “, a ”  real woman orchestra with irresistible humor  “, which ”  could be as small as – daughter of Hara-Kiri as Jim Carrey’s niece  . The presentation text is full of superlatives: ”  nonsensical madness  “, ”  tonic  “, ”  ” droll “, ”  smashing humor  “, ”  surrealist

” … It’s almost indigestible as the entire lexical field of humor passes. And it’s a bit suspicious, too [ . . . ]

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