Etiket: Critique
[Critique] “Novice” by Stéphane Dompierre: A killer so pocket
A subgenre of horror cinema, the slasher usually features a psychopathic killer, masked as Leatherface (Chainsaw Massacre) or disfigured as Freddy Krueger (The claws of the night), who mostly attacks…
[Critique] “Gray bees”: Andrei Kurkov and the Donbass beekeeper
In Mala Starogradivka, a tiny village wedged in the “grey zone” which separates Ukraine from Donbass occupied by pro-Russian separatists, there is no longer a living soul. The war that…
[Critique] “Ouistreham”: The false person
Regardless of the profession that Emmanuel Carrère exercises, the themes of lies and camouflaged or usurped identity recur like leitmotivs in his universe. This is not the only element that…
[Critique] “The zoo of the absent” and “Anthropic journal of the animal cause”: A literature sensitive to animals
The stakes of the animal cause appear more and more often on the side of the literature. As proof, the Educ Pop Animaliste association has been awarding the Maya Prize…
[Critique] “Wildhood”: electrifying youth in rebellion
Bretten Hannam had already won our membership with all his enthusiasm thanks to his short film Wildfire. The director micmac persists and signs with this extension of Wildfirethis time called…
[Critique] “Triangle Strategy”: More nostalgic than us
After the — well-received — turn-based role-playing game Octopath Travelerdirector Tomoya Asano once again plays on the nostalgic rope with Triangle Strategya strategy role-playing game heavily inspired by the classics…
[Critique] “The Lost City”: Chasing the Red Crown
An author of novels combining romance and adventure finds herself entangled in a story of kidnapping. Far from the comfort of her chic New York apartment, here she is lost…
[Critique] “Barbada”: Barbada in songs
Through ten ten-minute episodes, the drag queen Barbada invites young children to discover music in all its forms with the new Tou.tv show in her name. Dance, song, lyrics, instruments:…
[Critique] “Classified”: spies and spouses
The stories of spies are rather rare on the small screen in Quebec, with the exception of a few intrigues of the genre in the popular daily soap opera District…
[Critique] “Memory Box”: The repressed past
The painful memory of the war in Lebanon during the 1980s resurfaces in Memory Box, a story set between two cities, Montreal and Beirut, and two eras. Signed Joana Hadjithomas…
[Critique] “Gifted”, Koffee | The duty
Two years after she became the first woman to win the Grammy for Best Reggae Album (for an EP, Rapture), the young prodigy Koffee offers a real first album, brief…
[Critique] “Composer and adventurer”, François de Roubaix
On our shores, behind the Morricone flight. II, like a raft behind an ocean liner, a box arrives. The music of François de Roubaix. Less universally celebrated than a Delerue,…
[Critique] Domenico Scarlatti, Michael Korstick
As early as 2005, we drew your attention to the German pianist Michael Korstick. This artist, now 66 years old, who evolves on the fringes of the international circuit, was…
[Critique] “SZNZ:Spring”, Weezer | The duty
Never short of ideas or out of breath, Weezer returns to us fully pumped up after two albums in 2021. On the menu this time, a curious seasonal marathon: the…
[Critique] “Keep on With Falling”, The Boo Radleys
The Boos are back. Twenty-four years since the last time: the other century. Now is the time, we say. After the return of grunge, britpop would show up: the cycle…
[Critique] “The businessman and his blues”: discovering Gilles Talbot
A father who died in the crash of the Cessna he was piloting. A son who, so to speak, never knew this father. The quest of the son who wants…
[Critique] “What we breathe on Tatouine”, a playful adaptation
With What we breathe on Tatouinethe poet Jean-Christophe Réhel had won the Literary Prize for College Students in 2019. Suffering from cystic fibrosis, living meagerly in a room in Repentigny,…
[Critique] “Labyrinthitis”, Destroyer | The duty
“My writing is instinctive, I don’t know where it all comes from,” Dan Bejar told us two years ago, shortly after the release of his album. Have We Met. His…
[Critique] “Labyrinthitis”, Destroyer | The duty
“My writing is instinctive, I don’t know where it all comes from,” Dan Bejar told us two years ago, shortly after the release of his album. Have We Met. His…
[Critique] “Jean-Sébastien Bach: Matthäus-Passion”, Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon
This publication is obviously an event, especially since Raphaël Pichon was able to present the work several times in 2021 despite the pandemic. Surrounded by Julian Prégardien as evangelist, and,…