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A concert at the last moment with a friend at Point-Virgule (small room in the Marais) to see Za? It’s not a name…

Za is a singer originally from Strasbourg: German father and French mother, Joëlle Kopf (who wrote not bad for Calogéro, Zazie, Patricia Kaas…). I had never heard of it before that night. Arriving on stage: petite blonde, cut ébouriffée bobo kind with a black flower in her hair (very good idea, Monday at the same job I), held a “hippie-chic” (I hate this expression, but that’s all in fact it), a stool, a guitar. She spoke slowly, his face is taking expressions of girl: Point-Virgule uses the word “mutine”… hum, virgin frightened yeah!

She sings: everything is very slow, very relaxing, her voice little resemblance to that of Norah Jones and Katie Melua rather (yes, nothing new to the final). Its texts, she composes herself, french, in English, Spanish (this gives a later Pink Martini) and his inspirations are numerous: bossa nova, rock, jazz, folk… It must be said that she travels a lot ( Ibiza, Miami…). It can be taken on Thursday and appreciated. In fact she really something to it, a mixture of everything.

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The musicians will join it, they do not seem unhappy, they smile, she jokes with them. It involves the public (that is easy in a small room), she quickly s’attire sympathy girls in a song “Tears of Caramel,” which talks about women unhappy in love (sung in a world of delicacies) and that of man in the title “elsewhere” where she says she is ready to do anything to her boyfriend: “… if I have a chance, j’me launches in flames, I have nothing to fear if it is you who extinguished the fire, bonfire…. ” His other titles: “Me in May”, “Queen of the Rising days” (soft), “For Whom Why” (more exotic), April…

I spent a pleasant evening: his voice is nice, though not very original, but his compositions are really interesting, I even surprise hum a few songs in the subway (very good sign). Brice could even pass a background noise to an evening lounge atmosphere.

It has not yet released album but at the end of the concert we were graciously distributed a CD five titles (cool). It is a concert in April, May and June to Point-Comma, and the Olympia from 24 to 29 April. In the meantime you can go see his MySpace page and listen to some of its titles!

As you discover.

It took me like that, as a president facing a new pen one day signing international agreement, I said, “and why not me?”. And besides, I did nothing to pique person. Also, I want to take when envy me tell a modest chronic called simply “the editorial boss” because the boss is me.

It is true that, since Through my eyes is entered on the stock exchange last week, we hoisting the second largest in the world of cultural webzine *, we have spent in another sphere! Our 127 journalists and correspondents abroad stalk tirelessly current cultural, the inauguration of a museum in the Andes to the cinema sorties on Wednesday in France to offer quality information, in the spirit which is ours.

With our 2007 profits amounting to over 15 million euros, we believe now is to buy some media groups and diversify the activities of the company.

And since all this, my life changed. I became “the boss”. My driver goes every morning to eight hours to fetch me in my loft of Neuilly, and during the trip to the offices of writing, I read the Financial Times and GQ for me entertained. It is now missing only one thing in my career with pleasure of management: an editorial! Now, I’m a real boss

Why you absolutely must watch or at least give a chance to Private Practice?

Leaving Seattle Grace Hospital to integrate the medical practice deprived of his best friend Naomi Bennett in the very ensoileillée Santa Monica, California, is a risky gamble. But seeing his life professionally and emotionally trampling, Addison Montgomery, gynaecology and obstetrics surgeon renowned, decides to make his life in danger s’intallant in this office. Car Private Practice is the spin-off (spin-off series) Grey’s Anatomy. At the end of season 3, a double episode showed us the future colleagues Addison.

In this cabinet, the magnificent Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) will join several doctors in various specialties. His best friend Naomi Bennett (Audra McDonald), the fertility specialist and majority shareholder of the firm with her former husband Saturday Bennett (super sexy Taye Diggs), GP. But Wilder also Pete (Tim Daly) the specialist in alternative medicine, Violet Turner (Amy Brenneman, seen in the series Judging Amy) psychotherapist, Cooper Freedman (Paul Adelstein which was worrying agent Kellerman in the first two seasons of Prison Break ) Pediatrician at the heart of artichoke and William “Dell” Parker (Chris Lowell saw in the season 2 Veronica Mars) assistant medical practice. A while this group is added the head of the hospital St Ambrose, the very dry pète-Charlotte King (Kadee Strickland).

At the beginning, Addison will be hard to find its brands and gaining acceptance among his colleagues but gradually complicity and relations will warm if you see what I mean…

You also have to get used to see Addison in this new place, with these new characters. It took me 4 episodes to mourn Grey’s Anatomy and accept the series for what it is: different. For this series does not have the same pace, not the same humour. Indeed it does absolutely not the same audience, it is aimed at women but certainly a little older than GA. The themes are less spectacular, more intimate and focused on sensitivity. The characters are a little difficult to be defined by the production (always Shonda Rhimes) and screenwriters.

Broadcast on ABC, Private Practice, despite its faults youth, has found its audience (thank you strike screenwriters!) Because they were between 14 and 15 million to monitor 9 episodes of the first season. The series is renewed for next autumn but Shonda Rhimes, not really satisfied, has planned some adjustments and greater involvement on his part, we can trust him.

Soon on TF1 and even if this series is nothing revolutionary or original, let their chance to Addison and his new friends trying to forget Grey’s Anatomy (i know, it’s hard!) But the final the characters are endearing and romantic intrigues appear and leaves room for a little more levity.

China has the worries to be a time çi, not only because of events right-l’hommistes along the route of the Olympic flame around the world. Asia and especially China is the largest consumer of sharks, and particularly its fins, is refined appreciated in soup. Creating a massive demand, China leads the creation of a veritable genocide water, and many developing countries to engage everything is in the hunt for the shark enrich the local mafias.

Rob Stewart, aquatic biologist of Canadian origin, spent five years on this project documentary around the lord of the seas, sharks. Today truly threatened, the shark is an animal origin fantasies of violence the craziest, maintained in the collective imagination by films such as Jaws, or even all the features that horrified dice shark attack occurs. The director recalls, sharks kill five people per year. Executions, 2400, drugs, 22000, malnutrition, 8 million.

Through his story, Rob Stewart demonstrates two things: the shark is not naturally the enemy of man he was rather afraid. He is one of the oldest living animals on the planet, essential for the balance of the aquatic ecosystem. Accompanied by Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd leader, he stalks fishermen practicing shark finning, a practice which involves cutting the fins of sharks and then reject them live at sea, unable to survive. Illustrated with strong images of these practices, and investigations denouncing the hypocrisy of the governments concerned, this documentary film is a poignant call for mobilization to make the shark a protected species. Future generations will be ashamed of what our time inflicts on our planet.

Sharkwater is a documentary that condemns, in line with the nightmare of Darwin and Supersize me. Rob Stewart y highlights a key point: the fear of the monster (whatever it is) is necessary because the men entered deeply into our mores. The shark, with its impressive size, its teeth and its position as predator in the marine ecosystem, makes it a perfect monster. The shark is an animal that must be protected from any emergency, the documentary is clear, I think there have been very sensitive. For you, I looked at the image of the shark movie, one that is conveyed from our childhood, through the Shark List…

Firstly, there is an old film, She Gods of Shark Reef (1958): This is the story of two brothers, one good and one evil, who find themselves on an island populated by young women who Shark worship one God. They regularly sacrifice one of them to appease its so-called anger, but Mahia, the most beautiful which will soon pass, fell in love with a nice brother, and so on. The important point of this film: real white sharks are filmed (in black and white of course), and scenes of sacrifice young women actually swim alongside the sharks, which are a small measure finally metre long, without an ounce of aggression (on monsters far east as expected). So later on perspective is disappointed but it’s still better than a shark paper maché (we did that in 1958). I recently watched with great tenderness.

Then we come in 1975: The Teeth of the Sea (Jaws) by Steven Spielberg, and then you play with the big boys, you’re in the cult movie! Everyone knows the film: this music agonizing, the girl and bathing midnight, the boy on his inflatable mattress, this huge shark, the police chief Martin Brody (played by Roy Scheider who died last February 10)… Here sharks are automatic 8m long, and even if the film has aged, however I left amazed by its realism: these are real monsters. Jaws 2 is not too bad: there is a killer whale stranded on the sand, half burst. Martin Brody is convinced that a shark is responsible, and if one considers the size of the bite I think we can begin to pinball! Jaws 3 marked me when I was gamine: a water park entirely under water and while transparency, a small shark who were subjected experiences, a female great white shark who wants to reclaim her baby and gradually destroys the park, tourists overwhelmed… And Denis Quaid who plays a son of Chief Brody: in this part shark is in 3D. It does not remember Jaws 4 (n’intéressera that rips series Z like me).

A bomb: Fear Bleue (Deep Blue Sea) by Renny Harlin (1999). On an old oil platform scientists are experimenting on the brains of sharks. Of course, the new super sharks turn against them and this is the massacre. The film is breathless, special effects are cool and then there’s Samuel L. Jackson. Sharks are fractious, yes, but it is the fault of men and their genetic manipulation: finally shark “becomes” a monster, ideas are changing.

Dark Waters of Phillipe J. Roth (2003): a dark history of oil platform (yet!) Attacked by sharks. A team is sent there to see the damage (including “The Fountainhead” Lorenzo Lamas). There are sharks everywhere, the players are not stable on the platform as in their Thursday A film more or less remake (is not). Not much interest.

Megalodon Pat Corbitt (2004): history tends to something more original, because this time it is drilling for oil that man updates a shark prehistoric ancestor of the white shark. But the film is slow for a horror film is average. So I will not go further.

Shark Attack 3: Megalodon David Worth (2002). The unexplained deaths in the Bahamas, a shark tooth was found: it would be a huge prehistoric shark (and yes… Megalodon, you follow). To remember this film special effects laborious (the image of the wide open mouth of a shark expanded a thousand times and the boat just as it narrows takes to be swallowed), and a scene to say the least strange… The two characters main stand side by side since 1:15 and already they have still been no sex (or even a kiss) than it does the screenwriter place judiciously heralds a sentence: “Shall I take you home and eat your pussy? “And then cut, it goes on a sex scene fast, and we resumed as if nothing had happened: they copulé, horror film fulfils all the conditions… It speaks to another site, it m ‘Reassured, I thought he was the only interpelée.

In 2003, a new kind of shark-film: In deep water (Open Water) by Chris Kentis. Based on a true story! A film with a minimum average and maximum anguish (I admit to being really been bluffée): Susan and Daniel, a rather nice couple, decides to make diving in the Bahamas. But by a combination of circumstances, their group forgotten in the open sea, they derive from sharks rodent, no weapon at their disposal… We are very far from the giant models teeth, here the horror lies in this reality that reminds us the famous dream (the one where it is lost in the middle of nowhere) and the question that we had all asked one day: qu’aurais I do if I found myself nose to nose with a shark? (you ideas are welcome in comments). Must see.

And still other titles: Hammerhead (2005) that I have not seen but me enormously, a creature half-man half-shark, it has the merit out of the ordinary! Shark Attack 1 and 2, in principle, Blue Demon (2005), Blood Surf (2000) and many others…

Men of imagination… I do not think that sharks reflect as much as we try to have us believe. His only crime was to confuse a surfer with a sea lion, is that this makes him a bloodthirsty killer? I remind you that talking about an animal aquatic… I admit adore all these films that I have talked but I think they are somewhat responsible for our disinterest in the light of safeguarding sharks, which I recalls, becomes paramount. When the film on the emerging friendship between a young child and a shark tigre? When the series on Sharky shark who assists the maritime police to resolve investigations? If this is the only way to make an animal worthy of being protected in the eyes of public opinion…

The last Amos Gitai is built like a contradiction, according to two separate but necessary one to another, quality and content very different. In the first part of the film, we are in France, and more specifically in Avignon. One can imagine the summer sun piercing through the windows and held minor characters. Uli (Liron Levo), a young Israeli, Palestinian meeting a woman on board the train leading to France. Around a cigarette and a kiss, political tensions fade.

After having climbed over a fence to exit the station, Uli joined his half-sister Ana (Juliette Binoche) in the family home, which watches over the body of their deceased father. In this first part of the movie, you will abstruse dialogues, Juliette Binoche trends aguicheuses and approach ébrieuse. When his brother Uli, he sleeps in the basement of the house in a camp for illegal immigrants and homeless, instead of using a room… A not understand anything about it!

After the funeral, Ulia and Ana leave the car with their father in Israel to Ana found that the girl is abandoned in accordance with the wishes of his father. This is the second part of the film. While Ana joined her daughter teaching in a colony, Uli, Israeli policeman, is in charge of evacuating the settlement, in accordance with the disengagement of Israel in Palestine. This part of the film illustrates the difficulty for the Israeli settlers have to leave by force and under armed escort in these colonies which previous governments had pushed to move.

Contrasté, Disengagement addresses many tracks without all explore, and can seem complex to grasp at first. A film that does not necessarily appeal, which could not spell nor disappointed nor really satisfied…

Forget the image that you have Yakuza, sword in the back, worthy heirs of Japanese ninja, manager clubs strip-tease and traffic of opium. In 2008, the Yakuza clans do more to resemble anything other than SMEs on the decline…

Jean-Pierre Limosin was able to install its cameras in the districts of Mr. Kumagai, the sponsor of a Japanese mafia clan based in Tokyo. In its offices, where he arrives every morning in good escort, Mr. Kumagai employment of person household and security officers. This service will integrate Naoki young, adolescent difficult given the clan chief by his family to avoid running too badly.

Far documentary investigation, Young took Yakuza show only part of the Honourable mafia (a bit like A very british gangster, a documentary on Dominique Noonan and his mafia Manchester), respecting the established moral contract prohibiting Filming of illegal activities of the clan. This raises the question of the interest of the documentary, it is only propaganda film showing only what the clan wants to disseminate. Because from knowing how to enter an office, make the service and leave without disturbing, Young Yakuza will do nothing. And it is a shame…

Looking for a thriller that mixes the alter-globalists, a worldly, politicians, crooks Korean Alzheimer’s patients or Tourette’s syndrome? The latest film by Tonie Marshall, director of Venus Beauty, is for you!

This is the story of Darry Marzouki, magician unemployment fluctuates between a mother affected by Alzheimer’s disease and his brother-in-law, a beauf aggressive it does not support. On the stroke of blood he decides to steal the Mercedes of it and go away. There he met there a way Irene Montier Duval, a woman of class and character who finds himself dropped into full campaign with a bag full of banknotes. Where do these tickets? What is it? Above all leaking?

This is the problem that will attempt to resolve Darry with Irene in embarking on a road-movie a little foutraque who will be crossing a wide range of senior figures in colour. If initially there is a little surprised to mix as many themes so different, little by little alchemy takes place and it takes the charm of history. Humour is the appointment, whether in scenes with Melanie Bernier who plays a young woman reaching the Tourette’s syndrome or a permanent shift of the two main characters.

Because the film is primarily a pretext to stage two characters that oppose the departure and who will get to know or even appreciate. The only thing that binds them is that they are both marginal, abandoned by their entourage and who are looking for a place in society. Nathalie Baye operates its charm with a role of non-swinging free of a certain fragility and qu’Edouard Baer composed once again shifted and burlesque character who knows us move. So without hesitation spend a moment of relaxation and fun with simple and cost Passe Passe.

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Passe Passe, Tonie Marshall, with Nathalie Baye, Edouard Baer, Bulle Ogier, Guy Marchand… Release April 16, 2008. 1:33. See the trailer.

Albert Spaggiari was one of the most wanted french during the 80 years. His name did you say maybe nothing and yet he organized in 1976 a break of nearly 50 million francs (more than 7 million). Appréhendé in 1977, he succeeds in escaping and therefore play cat and mouse with police.

Without a weapon or hatred or violence tells a part of his life: more precisely, the film draws from exile in South America. Vincent, a journalist is paid by Paris-Match for the interview and go and get the scoop at the time. Even if it seems surprising, Spaggiari has several times with journalists during his cabal, while épiant constantly to see if it was not pursued by the police. Albert and Vincent will gradually get to know each other and while Spaggiari he recounts his tumultuous life, Vincent begins to appreciate more and more courageous this man and his wife loving.

The film, directed by Jean-Paul Rouve, is very class. Habilement set the stage, perfectly recreating the atmosphere of the time, without weapons or hatred or violence gives us a portrait of a man just kind which will focus yet. Because it must be said, Spaggiari is frankly not put in value (and this is very much like that): liar, frimeur, just like fascism, a sprig misogynist… nothing brilliant. Only the audience will slowly come to focus on character at the same time that the journalist who interviewed.

Before being an action film or a biopic, No weapon or hatred or violence is therefore primarily focused on the relationship between the three main characters among them. Very well interpreted by Jean-Paul Rouve, Gilles Lellouche and Alice Taglioni, the trio was trying to s’apprivoise sometimes find. You leave the film not only having spent a very good time of cinema but also has (re) discovered one of the most famous bandits of the seventies with Mesrine, who will also soon be the subject of a film with Vincent Cassel in the title role.

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Without a weapon or hatred or violence, a film by Jean-Paul Rouve. With Jean-Paul Rouve, Gilles Lellouche, Alice Taglioni… Release April 16, 2008. 1:28. See the trailer.

“On behalf of what is right and good, stop, ugly.” Thus qu’Ashley Rockwell, our favorite nurse, tried to stop the 72nd best private detective St Andrews, Britany Jenkins, who abscond with the test results of A, D, N, Becky Walters!

For three years now, the soap parody québecois The heart has its reasons, produced by Marc Brunet and broadcast on VAT, has a growing success, spreading across borders through the magic of the web. In France, everything has started a massive distribution of a scene now cult called “responder”, where Brenda Mongomery is being undermined by the answering Becky Walters, which are still found on sharing sites such as Dailymotion or Youtube, although regularly moderate.

Anne Dorval and Marc Labrèche tops the list, the troupe of actors interprets these roles often ringards of American soaps whose success does not wavered. The series has even paid for the privilege of a few guests, as Stéphane Rousseau, Isabelle Boulay, Anthony Kavanagh,… Unfortunately, if the first two seasons were a success, the third lives hearings fall, which led the chain has stopped production of the show, to the dismay of fans of the first hour… Tabarnak!

If you want to get an idea of the spirit, you can watch a few extracts such as the tomato soup, the programme “Help, you’re ugly” or even the inimitable part of Scrabble between Brett Montgomery and his fiancée Criquette Rockwell, who lives emergence of a new aquatic animal night, wqt (pronounced “waqueteu”).

The heart has its reasons, produced by Marc Brunet. With Anne Dorval, Marc Labrèche, Pierre Brassard, James Hyndman,… 3 seasons (39 episodes) broadcast from Monday to Friday at 17H50 on NRJ12.