On Émile Proulx-Cloutier’s bedside table

Twice a month, a public figure tells us what they are reading at the moment. This week, the actor, director, musician and author Émile Proulx-Cloutier, who is giving the last two shows of his tour With bare hands this weekend, at the Gesù, and which we can see this fall in the TV series The perfect moments And Before the crashor listen to the new season of the podcast show narrated Peaceful sleepon Audible.

Arsenic my love

Arsenic my love

Gabrielle Izaguirre-Falardeau and Jean-Lou David

Quartz

48 pages

“ One could say that it is a pamphlet; it is a correspondence between the two authors who speak of their point of view on the situation of Rouyn-Noranda with enormous affection and, at the same time, with enormous dizziness, mixed feelings, revolt, too, indignation, about a city they love, about the great fireplace and the role it played in their lives. It is a reflection on memory, on the workers who preceded them. […] It’s a way of getting your feet wet on a political issue in a deeply emotional, personal, and very embodied way. It’s very short, but very strong and very beautiful, with real literary value, in my opinion. »

Alice Guy

Alice Guy

José-Louis Bocquet and Catel Muller

Casterman

400 pages

“I had great pleasure reading this comic strip about the life of Alice Guy, which is starting to become better known. She is one of the first female directors in the history of cinema. She shot hundreds of short films, even serial stories, she developed techniques for directing actors, she made films with stunts… She is one of the pioneers of silent cinema, but she was completely forgotten for decades. Many of his films have been lost. At the end of her life, she struggled to gain recognition for her own place in cinema history and died losing her memory. The story delves into the corners that had been swept under the rug. »

V13

V13

Emmanuel Carrère

POL

368 pages

“ I really liked it Limonovbut V13, it’s really a really great work as a chronicler. It’s a thrilling dive into the trial of the Bataclan attacks. Emmanuel Carrère makes a sort of observation – we don’t become a voyeur, but we still have the impression of being present on the uncomfortable benches of the court with him. We experience what it is like to follow such a long trial for more than nine months; at the same time, he has a sense of detail and storytelling which means that even if we have a subject that is tragically heavy, he manages to find angles to talk about humanity, the twists and turns of this story. , of how people, sometimes, take ownership of a tragedy. »