The voice of Palestinian and Israeli youth, and Kate Winslet as a war photographer

In Tout Public on Monday October 7, 2024, the journalist Guillaume Auda for his book “October 7, Year Zero”, and Kate Winslet in the title role of the film “Lee Miller”.

On this day of commemoration of October 7, Guillaume Auda, senior reporter and former correspondent in Jerusalem, gives a voice to Palestinian and Israeli youth in his book October 7, year zero. A field journalist, he documents a territory he knows well, on a personal level, where he interviewed young Israelis and Palestinians in turn, following the terrorist attack of October 7, 2023.

If he wanted to write this book, it is to try to recreate a space for discussion, and to “dialogue between the two youths [qui] are face to face and look at each other through a one-way window.he explains. By no longer being around each other, except at the bend of a checkpoint, the divide has become such that all form of empathy has disappeared. “The possibility of expressing one’s suffering for others no longer exists”concludes the journalist.

“There are still glimmers of hope, we must hold on to them.”

Guillaume Auda

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For the moment, the prospect of a binational state seems unrealizable, according to the author, and finding short-term solutions seems to be the most urgent problem. Thus, Guillaume Auda insists on the fact that only the return of the hostages and a ceasefire would allow the two peoples to move forward and look towards the future.

Lee Miller is a woman with an exceptional destiny: first a model in the 1920s in New York, an art and fashion photographer in Paris, then a war reporter during the Second World War, she will be played on screen by Kate Winslet from Wednesday October 9, 2024 in a biopic dedicated to her.

Kate Winslet reflects on how she approached playing this strong, independent woman on screen. The actress tells us that she finds “crucial” telling the story of how “[Lee Miller] led her life and how she redefined femininity with her resilience and courage, but also with strength and compassion”. A very current portrait, although the events took place 80 years ago. The actress recognizes a real connection with the war photographer, whom she describes as an independent woman and having “lived as she wanted”.

“As I get older and play her, I realize I’m very close to her [Lee Miller].”

At the same time, the exhibition “Lee Miller, Saint-Malo under siege, August 1944”, dedicated to the photographer, is underway in Saint-Malo. Hélène Gédouin, co-curator of the exhibition, details Lee Miller’s war experience as he entered the city of Saint-Malo, which was still a combat zone at that time. “She will find herself confronted with the real war, that is to say the fighting, the bombs, the people dying around her, the soldiers, the refugeesshe describes. And she captures in an incredibly human way the faces of these people who are terrified.”

Photographs to discover or rediscover at the Chapelle de la Victoire in Saint-Malo, until November 3, 2024.

A program with the participation of Matteu Maestracci, journalist in the Franceinfo culture department.