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Tunisia without festivals...here again!

For the second time in a row, the Tunisian theatre, which has praised music, drama and dance since the mid-1960s, has not started.  Tunisia is famous in the Arab world for its festivals (approximately 400 years), especially in the summer when artists from all over the world will go there for pilgrimage; almost no musical star has not experienced him in Carthage, Lyme, The music festivals in Hammamet, Sousse, Sfax and Monastir are somewhere between blues, jazz, classical music and Arabian talabs.  In August of this year, Covid19 shattered this hope, and the Ministry of Culture did not attempt to use the streaming media technology used in Tunisian Theatre Week to propose a new virtual formula until the last minute. "But here, due to the impossibility and complexity of this proposal, the Ministry is withdrawing and announcing that it will allocate a budget for artistic performances in order to provide financial support for the artists and technicians who make up the largest par...

Chernobyl 1986: a heroic story full of clichés

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 The night of April 26, 1986 is one of the nights that humans will never forget. At 1:23:45 in the afternoon, the No. 4 reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the then Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic.  The power is equivalent to 500 atomic bombs, followed by a cloud of poison. Together with the Fukushima accident in 2011, this is by far the most serious accident in the history of civil nuclear power. The cinema did not reduce accidents, as they did when they were away. Feature films, documentaries and even soap operas, some of which reliably reconstruct the events ("Russischer Specht"/2015), "Catch Chernobyl: Opening after the Apocalypse"/2020).  One of the most famous and important works is the short play filmed by HBO in 2019. There is a new movie about these events on Netflix today, but "Chernobyl 1986" (2021) is a disaster full of disaster, stupidity, and dramatic lies. Fireman Alexei (Danila Kozlovsky, the same director) quit my ...

Jim Jarmuschs Patterson: The Little World of Hair

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 Patterson (2016) is a movie about doing nothing, a movie about poetry, passion, love, art, meditation, details and the city... a life. you live in. This movie embodies a wonderful picture of a person and life, the nature of our lives and the lives of people around us.  The movie took place over a week. From Monday, from the life of Patterson (Adam Driver), Patterson followed the same routine every day: He woke up at 6:15, Kiss his sleeping girlfriend and eat breakfast. Go to the bus garage, drive the bus all day, go home in the evening, dinner (exotic dishes prepared by girlfriend), and after lunch, he and his dog Marvin go for a walk, stop at the tavern, have a drink, listen to what others say, and return Home.  When taking the bus, listen to the stories of the passengers.When he arrived at the train station, he stopped, but Patterson was a poet, and he wrote his poems in a small notebook that he carried with him. Poetry is Patterson's passion for life and his passion. ...

Rene Vautier's "Return"... "The Che Guevara of French Cinema"

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  Ahlam Mosteghanemi has a beautiful sentence, he said: "Humanity is the religion of the nobility", I added that this is not only their religion, but also their way of life.  Always drive to the right. It is the nobles who oppose the politics of their country in order to be able to speak their conscience and human desires.  Many of them have shaped history and immortalized their names just because they are human beings, and we are just acting as human beings.  Addition or subtraction, and because he died in 2015, the 87-year-old French director René Vautier knows how to convey an image of Algeria that is different from that promoted in theatrical films.  Under the command of a French officer. Paid movies don’t tell the truth, it tries to distort it. Who is Rene Vautier, a friend from Algeria, and André Malraux called him "a Frenchman who saw the right thing and is the owner of the movie Algeria Burns, or, as Olivier Azam said, "Che Guevara del French Cinema" In...