#justice for grimaud

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Thoughts on episode 3 s1:

Another great episode !! Thoughts below:

Alexandre Dumas's dad had a TERRIBLE life and was born into slavery since his mother was a slave and his asshole of a sperm donor was her esclavagist. It's a nice attention to detail to see that Porthos' story mirrors that, since he was inspired by the dad.

The gang helps kill an esclavagist!!! Go gang 🔪

I don't know what's going on with Athos' little brother but it's proof book!Athos is so downright evil that we must make excuses for the modern Athos.

While i'm waiting to learn about the whole story, i'm still rooting for Milady. Stab him girl 🔪

D'ARTAGNAN STILL LACKS A MUSTACHE

I still need the lackeys. I love em and Athos saying he hates having servants (in French at least) would clash nicely with the fact that in the book he forbids his poor lackey Grimaud to even speak.

Actually if Grimaud exists he should team up with Milady and stab Athos.

I don't know how it's said in English but in French Porthos says that Aramis has "des doigts de fée" (the fingers of a fairy ----> very delicate and nimble fingers). Gay much ?????

Fellas, is it gay to rescue your brother in arm from his ex that's trying to burn him alive ?

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6 International Mystery/Thriller Films to Watch on Netflix

Recently I've been trying to get more into the international side of Netflix to see what hidden gems exist in the other countries and they've got quite a bit! I decided to watch 10 films that grabbed my interest and made a list of recommendations. That being said, here's my list of 10 mystery films to check out on Netflix.

1. Murder Mubarak

Country: India

Language: Hindi

Director: Homi Adajania

When a murder occurs at a high end establishment called The Royal Delhi Club, ACP Bavani Singh and his sidekick officer Padam are on the case. To me this movie was a pretty solid whodunnit. ACP Singh and Padam gave me big Poirot & Chief Inspector Japp vibes and the club setting and its employees and wealthy guests gave me Knives Out vibes. It was kind of predictable but even then I found myself unsure who the murderer was. There was a brief graphic scene showing a dead cat as well as some shots of the same cat unconscious so just a heads up if you decide to watch it.

2. In Love and Deep Water

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Director: Yusuke Taki

Suguru Ubukata is a butler on a cruise ship that takes his job very seriously. A 42 day voyage that should go smoothly gets messy when not only does he discover his girlfriend is having an affair, there’s a murder that takes place on the night that the ship sets sail. It’s more romance than mystery in my opinion because a lot of focus is on the budding romance between Suguru and Chizuru Banjaku, the girlfriend of Suguru’s girlfriend’s lover.

3. A Deadly Invitation

Country: Mexico

Language: Spanish

Director: José Manuel Cravioto

Agatha Hernandez, a true crime fan and co-host of a podcast called Unsolved Crimes, unexpectedly gets an invitation to visit her estranged sister Olivia at her mansion. The reason for the invite? Olivia wants to play a deadly game. She lays everyone’s dirty secrets out on the table and the reasons they would have to kill each other. To no one’s surprise Olivia is dead before morning and it’s up to Agatha to solve the murder. It gives me The Last of Sheila (1973) vibes because of the similarities such as the secrets being revealed by the host on a yacht, but I think overall it does end up being it's own film. It's a straightforward mystery with minimal violence and gore and in my opinion has a satisfiable ending.

4. The Lost Patient

Country: France

Language: French

Director: Christophe Charrier

Thomas Grimaud, a 19 year old, falls into a coma for 3 years after his entire family is murdered except for his sister who disappeared without a trace. When he awakens he has no memory of what happened or where his sister is. With the help of a psychologist, Thomas tries to piece together what happened to his family. To be honest the film is a bit predictable but even then I found the ending to be a little bit confusing. It resembles the plot of a film that came out a couple of years before and I don’t want to spoil it so if you’re interested it’s listed at the end of this post.

5. The Postcard Killings

Country: England

Language: English

Director: Danis Tanović

Jacob Kanon, a detective with the NYPD, travels to London to find answers after his daughter and her husband are killed there while on their honeymoon. The police refuse to give out answers and when discovering that their deaths were committed by a serial killer who targets other newlyweds and leaves a signature post card, Jacob decides to investigate on his own. When an American journalist Désirée Lombard receives a postcard in Sweden, Jacob seeks her help to track down the killer and get justice for his daughter and all of the other victims. As Jacob closes in on the killer’s identity it becomes a game of cat and mouse and a race to prevent another couple’s death.

TW: Body Horror

6. Killer Book Club

Country: Spain

Language: Spanish

Director: Carlos Alonso-Ojea

A group of college students with a book club for horror novels are stalked by a killer in a clown suit after a revenge prank leads to a death. The killer clown is writing a story about the murder and devotes each chapter to one of the club members being punished killed. The concept of a horror book club being the target of a killer is an interesting new take on the slasher film genre. Since it’s a slasher film you can expect a lot of gory scenes. Some parts of the movie were predictable but I don’t think it took away from what was a simple slasher film.

TW: Sexual Assault

SPOILERS FOR THE LOST PATIENT

The movie that the Lost Patient resembles and imo executes the amnesia aspect and plot twist way better is Forgotten (2017) also on Netflix and starring Kang Ha-Neul.

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Lovely Moments: The Best bodyguards 😃😎😏

Johnny and his moms/bodyguards, Sean Bett and Malcolm Connolly, last year, on September 26, at the Héli Sécurité Saint-Tropez in Grimaud, France.

And Johnny silly as always biting his scarf...  😂

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My Brain is a Wonderland

By which I mean that it has many distractions, things smell tempting but aren’t all that nutritious (especially for the price), and sometimes there are terrible queues.

So, as some of you may have picked up, I seem to have handed myself the task of filling in the gap between seasons 2 and 3 of BBC show The Musketeers in an act of surpassing hubris. Now, don’t get me wrong - I’m loving a lot of it, but there are three main problems I’m currently facing, all of which tie into the fact that I’m very easily distracted at times. And this appears to be A Time.

Set adrift somewhat from BBC canon, I still have to make what I’m writing make sense in the context of what’s to come in s3. I set myself up from the very beginning as someone who writes a canon compliant (if somewhat interstitial) universe, and, by the saints, I am now set on that course for the rest of this series. Unfortunately, as many have attested in the past, the BBC kind of clowned for season 3, so I’m starting to feel like a clown apologist/ enabler. However, writing the evolution of Constance, and the development of her relationship with Tréville (and Marcheaux), the accession of Feron, and the development of his relationship with Grimaud (and Marcheaux), and exploring how the Baudins (Sylvie and Hubert) came to Paris, is proving immensely satisfying. I do, however, have to stop myself for providing elaborate backstories for every damned cadet and OC Musketeer, even if only in my vast and growing spreadsheet.

With no real canon, though plenty of hints about adventures in Alsace, the Battle of Arras, and being that close to Douai leading to the conclusion that our lads are on the Northern Front, fighting the Spanish in Flanders, I thought I’d turn to matching their exploits to the real life ones of the northern French regiments in the Franco-Spanish War as part of the Thirty Years War, about which there is plenty of documentation... Only to find that, of course, the BBC clowned again, clearly doing the equivalent of taking a List of Things That Happened In The War and throwing darts at it. (Haha: throwing d’Art at it... I’ll see myself out...) So, again, I’m going to have to either ignore a bunch of those or, yet again, find myself polishing the big boots and fluffing up the garish wigs. (”Big, red nose today, is it, sir? Very good.”)

The closer you look at the Thirty Years War, even just the French involvement, the more fascinating things you find. I’ve run into some extraordinary characters that the BBC could have gone to town on, but a) no Richelieu kind of robs us of many of the real-life interesting interactions, and b) they clearly had budgetary restraints that my imagination does not. However, that’s also a bit of a problem, as my magpie brain keeps spotting different exciting things in the course of even the most cursory research and saying Oooh, what about...?! which means that, of course, I have to bloody write them.

Some examples, you say? Why, of course - here’s a couple:

Due to having a gap in my plan for 1638 and through researching what was happening in Alsace (”be brave”) and Lorraine during that time, I ran into Bernhard Saxe-Weimar, mercenary leader of a mercenary army (and, at one disastrous point, the Swedish Army), for whose services Richelieu (or, in our case, presumably Tréville) successfully bid. The Wikipedia entry honestly does not do him justice - he was, let’s say, very driven. I have something very particular in mind for good ol’ Bernhard, as he fits rather neatly into both BBC and historical Franco-Spanish War timeline crossovers. However, as a result of said particular notion, I now know a LOT about:

- The history of Switzerland, particularly Basle and the surrounding canton.

- The geography of Basel-land, particularly with regard to its mediaeval castles and Roman fortifications.

- The geopolitical/ religious divisions in Switzerland which essentially rendered it a neutral zone.

- Some really fucking horrendous sieges of the conflict, at least one commander of which was so stubborn they resorted to cannibalism.

- How much a fortress cost (to buy - less if you chance upon a pragmatic general who can see which way the war’s blowing and fancies a small profit and a long life).

- How much an army cost (to buy - less if you’re Richelieu and don’t actually pay up).

In trying to fit stuff around the Village of Women in the Fool’s Gold episode into the narrative, I discovered that the “Battle of Arras” referenced by d’Artagnan is likely the Siege of Arras. However, that was in 1640, which can’t mesh with BBC canon, so... what?! (See also: the Battle of Freiburg, 1644, which is possibly what Porthos is referring to with regard to Elodie’s previous husband.) However, just as I was scanning down the page in disgust, preparatory to binning the bugger, my eye was snagged by a familiar name... was that... Cyrano de Bergerac? Yes. Yes, it was - the writer joined up with the Guards for a short time, got injured on the neck during the breaking of the siege, and shortly after that went back to Paris (I think) to study under a philosopher and mathematician. How can I resist that? HOW?! I now, of course, know a lot more about de Bergerac than I did (avoid the Wikipedia page if you can, or at least skip the middle chunks, clearly written by someone mildly deranged), including the fact that he could easily by described as one of the first sci-fi writers.

So there you go - some spoilers for the forthcoming works, always assuming I can stop magpieing plot points and actually write the bugger! 😄😂😅😓😭

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POST-SCRIPTUM 1022

CAMIZOLE, CAMIZOLE (SouffleContinu Records)

Liberté vaut-elle mieux que maîtrise, construction et achèvement ? En répondant par l'affirmative, les utopistes de Camizole choisissent clairement leur camp. Selon eux, toute création musicale se doit d'être la plus spontanée possible. Et pour y parvenir, pensent-ils, mieux vaut abandonner tout ego au profit de l'expérimentation collective, plutôt testée auprès du public. Jouer la carte de l'improvisation sans limites ni entraves est donc le crédo de Camizole, bien décidé à savourer l'urgence d'un ludisme déjà mis au point par le Nihilist Spasm Band et le Living Theatre de Julian Beck et Judith Malina au moment de leurs recherches.

En son temps, c'est-à-dire en pleine effervescence punk, la démarche, elle-même héritière des réflexions de Mai 68, interpelle Chris Culter de Henry Cow, mais aussi Lindsay Cooper, qui invite l’une des membres de Camizole, Françoise Crublé, à rejoindre le Feminist Improvising Group. D'ailleurs, pour le compte du label Tapioca de Jean Georgakarakos (co-fondateur de BYG Records), un disque est même alors envisagé, d'après une prestation publique au Théâtre de Chartres en novembre 1977. Sauf que ce label cesse rapidement toute activité, cet enregistrement restant dans un tiroir. Dommage. Aujourd'hui, après que des extraits couplés avec d'autres bouts de performances aient vu le jour via Spalax à la fin des années 1990, un double-album en forme d'intégrale sort afin de rendre justice à ce collectif monté par Jacky Dupéty, et par lequel sont entre autres passés Dominique Grimaud (Vidéo-Aventures), Chris Chanet (Etron Fou Leloublan, Urban Sax), Xavier Jouvelet (notamment entendu auprès de Lol Coxhill) et Bernard Filipetti (Art & Technique). Mieux vaut tard que jamais !

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Is freedom worth more than mastery, construction and achievement? In replying yes, the utopians of Camizole clear show which side they are on. For them, musical creation must be as spontaneous as possible. To achieve this, it is better to put egos to one side to concentrate on collective experimentation, to be tried and tested in front of a live audience. Playing the card of unlimited and unhindered improvisation is Camizole's crédo, having decided to get a taste of the urgent game-playing already established by the Nihilist Spasm Band and the Living Theatre research of Julian Beck and Judith Malina.

At the time, that is to say when punk was exploding, this concept, itself inherited from the May 68 events, made an impact on Chris Cutler of Henry Cow, but also Lindsay Cooper, who invited Camizole member Françoise Crublé to join the Feminist Improvising Group. Also, the Tapioca label run by Jean Georgakarakos (co-founder of BYG Records), considered producing an album, from a live recording made at the Théâtre de Chartres in November 1977. Unfortunately the label rapidly ceased all activities and the recording was left in a drawer, which was a real shame. Today, after extracts and other live bits and pieces came out via Spalax at the end of the 1990s, an integral double-album is finally being released to do justice to the collective created by Jacky Dupéty, and which included, amongst others Dominique Grimaud (Vidéo-Aventures), Chris Chanet (Etron Fou Leloublan, Urban Sax), Xavier Jouvelet (notably heard alongside Lol Coxhill) and Bernard Filipetti (Art & Technique). Better late than never!

( Urban Sax, par là )

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Une avocate dénonce : « Il vaut mieux violer un enfant que de vendre du shit en France »

Une avocate dénonce : « Il vaut mieux violer un enfant que de vendre du shit en France »

Invitée le 30 avril à l’émission Radio Brunet sur RMC, l’avocate pénaliste Marie Grimaud, a multiplié les accusations contre une justice trop laxiste envers les agressions sexuelles sur des enfants en France, notamment sur le suivi des condamnations.

Pour l’avocate pénaliste Marie Grimaud, invitée le 30 avril de l’émission Radio Brunet sur RMC, la France ne sait pas protéger ses enfants…

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Me after reading The Three Musketeers :