Personal Shopper, directed by Olivier Assayas

Kristen Stewart is excellent in Olivier Assayas’s magnificently unconventional Paris-set ghost storyAmid all the shifting mirrored surfaces and hazy ambiguities of Olivier Assayas’s bewitching, brazenly unconventional ghost story, this much can be said with certainty: Kristen Stewart has become one hell of an actress. The former ‘Twilight’ star was easily the standout feature of Assayas’s last film, the slightly stilted study of actors ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’, quietly yanking the rug from under the feet of Juliette Binoche. Here, Stewart doesn’t need to steal the film from anyone: she’s in virtually every crisp frame of it, holding the camera’s woozy gaze with her own quizzical, secretive stare and knotted body language

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Charlie Hebdo: a sober homage to the victims Place de la République in Paris

Two years after the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Cacher, a few hundred people gathered on Saturday evening at the Place de la République in Paris , In a sober tribute to the 17 victims, whose names were read.

“It’s raining, it’s cold, I’m a little cold, but I still came, because I had to be there,” explained to the AFP, visibly moved, an elderly woman leaning on a cane, which experienced Cabu when drawing in a lecture hall in May 68. the attack against Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper (12 died January 7, 2015), “it’s something, especially as it was the starting point for all What followed after, “she added, referring to the wave of attacks that France has faced in two years.

A “participatory canvas” was unrolled at the foot of the statue, made of colorful hands where dozens of people wrote a message in tribute to the victims. The gathering was announced Friday at the call of the French Association of Victims of Terrorism (AFVT), supported by several organizations including SOS Racisme, Licra and UEJF.”Every day victims need attention, recognition””We could not not be there,” Guillaume Denoix of Saint Marc, general manager of the AfVT, told the press a “I’m still Charlie” sign in hand [. . . ]

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Chanson Du Jour: L’Amour Est Bleu

Yesterday’s Chanson Du Jour was Petula Clark’s French lyric version of her 1968 hit This Is My Song. A year earlier in 1967, Paul Mauriat cover of the Andre Popp / Pierre Cour tune L’Amour Est Bleu (“Love Is Blue”) became a number 1 hit in the US.

This version is from British folksinger Flo Morrisey, 2015

Paul Mauriat’s instrumnetal version, 1967