Grand Corps Malade films his joyous ordeal in “Patients”

Slameur, Grand Corps Malade adapts his autobiographical novel “Patients” with Mehdi Idir, which is also the first realization. Given the subject and talent of the slammer, the film is rather identified and little is known about the contribution of his partner. The result is none the less astonishing of justness, funny, romantic, on a subject that hardly lends itself to it: hospitalization [ . . . ]

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Ash Wednesday

“All are from dust, and to dust all return”
– Ecclesiastes 3:20
“We are stardust, we are golden”
– Saint Joni
“Now don’t hang on, nothing last forever but the earth and sky”
– Rev. Kansas
“That was long ago, and now my inspiration is in the stardust of a song”
– Archbishop Carmichael
“SAD”
– The Devil

Chanson Du Jour: Ima

I am listening to a lot of Yael Naim of late, and I was excited to find this video of Yael performing with New Orleans-based cellist (playing the banjo here)  Leyla McCalla, formerly of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. I love this tune – the only song on Naim’s album “Older” where she sings in Hebrew. Naim was born in Paris in 1978. When she was 4, her family immigrated to Israel and settled in Ramat Hasharon. In May 2004, she decided to settle permanently in Paris.

Chanson Du Jour: Yael Naim with Leyla McCalla – “Ima” 

How to do Montmartre in 24 hours

A day in Montmartre will probably kick off at Abbesses metro station (line 12). At 36m below ground, this hillside tube stop is in fact the deepest station in Paris, so we won’t judge if you take the lift up to street level.Emerging from your mole-like underground state into the humming centre of Montmartre will most likely be a rude awakening. Visiting school groups thronging the streets, buskers churning out Parisian ‘classics’, street vendors thrusting plastic Eiffel Towers in your face: it’s hardly the most relaxing scene. But today you’ll move away from the crowds and explore the lesser known side of the quaint northern neighbourhood
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