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[domusinluna]

Obsessed with these cards illustrated by Pierre Jacquot

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[thirdrowcentre]

It's that time again. A few years ago I decided I would try and watch two films I'd never seen before each week. This year I've watched 374.

These are some of the ones that stood out.

JANUARY

The Leopard (dir. Luchino Visconti, 1963). Watched 1.1.23 at BFI Southbank

Benediction (dir. Terence Davies, 2021). Watched 11.1.23

Gangubai Kathiawadi (dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 2022). Watched 17.1.23

The Swimmer (dir. Frank Perry, 1968). Watched 30.1.23.

Comizi d’amore (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964). Watched 31.1.23

FEBRUARY

Ugetsu Monogatari (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953). Watched 7.2.23

Wings (dir. Larisa Shepitko, 1966). Watched 22.2.23

Mirror (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975). Watched 24.2.23

MARCH

Born in Flames (dir. Lizzie Borden, 1983). Watched 2.3.23

Yi Yi (dir. Edward Yang, 2000). Watched 5.3.23

Taste of Cherry (dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 1997). Watched 6.3.23

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. (dir. Chantal Akerman, 1975). Watched 11.2.23 at BFI Southbank

Judex (dir. Georges Franju, 1963). Watched 12.3.23

Transit (dir. Christian Petzold, 2018). Watched 14.3.23

A Man Escaped (dir. Robert Bresson, 1956). Watched 19.3.23

Bellissima (dir. Luchino Visconti, 1951). Watched 31.3.23

APRIL

Army of Shadows (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969). Watched 2.4.23

Jacquot de Nantes (dir. Agnès Varda, 1991). Watched 10.4.23

Where is the friend’s house? (dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 1987). Watched 13.4.23

John Wick: Chapter 4 (dir. Chad Stahelski, 2023). Watched 16.4.23 at BFI IMAX

Charulata (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1964). Watched 27.4.23

Night and Fog (dir. Alain Resnais, 1956). Watched 28.4.23

MAY

Thirst (dir. Park Chan-wook, 2009). Watched 3.5.23

Return to Seoul (dir. Davy Chou, 2023). Watched 7.5.23 at Curzon Hoxton

The Eight Mountains (dir. Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch, 2023) Watched 12.5.23 at Curzon Hoxton

The Five Devils (dir. Léa Mysius, 2022). Watched 24.5.23

Nostalgia for the Light (dir. Patricio Guzmán, 2010). Watched 31.5.23

JUNE

Citadel (dir. John Smith, 2021). Watched 1.6.23

It’s Always Fair Weather (dir. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1955). Watched 10.6.23 at BFI Southbank 35mm.

Service for Ladies (dir. Alexander Korda, 1932). Watched 11.6.23 at BFI Southbank 35mm *nitrate*

And Life Goes On (dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 1992). Watched 14.6.23

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy (dir. Pamela Green, 2018). Watched 19.6.23

King and Country (dir. Joseph Losey, 1964). Watched 20.6.23

JULY

London (dir. Patrick Keiller, 1994). Watched 3.7.23

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (dir. J. Lee Thompson, 1972). Watched 14.7.23

Barbie (dir. Greta Gerwig, 2023). Watched 21.7.23 at BFI Southbank

Oppenheimer (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2023). Watched 23.7.23 at BFI IMAX. 70mm IMAX

I’m Not There (dir. Todd Haynes, 2007). Watched 28.7.23

AUGUST

Three Blind Mice (dir. William A. Seiter, 1938). Watched 17.8.23

Corridor of Mirrors (dir. Terence Young, 1948). Watched 22.8.23

World of Apu (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1959). Watched 26.8.23

L’argent (dir. Robert Bresson, 1983). Watched 31.8.23

SEPTEMBER

Past Lives (dir. Celine Song, 2023). Watched 3.9.23 at Curzon Soho.

Austenland (dir. Jerusha Hess, 2013). Watched 8.9.23

Lady Vengeance (dir. Park Chan-wook, 2005). Watched 19.9.23

News from Home (dir. Chantal Akerman, 1977). Watched 20.9.23

Edge of Tomorrow (dir. Doug Liman, 2014). Watched 28.9.23

OCTOBER

Killers of the Flower Moon (dir. Martin Scorsese, 2023). Watched 8.1.23 at Royal Festival Hall. London Film Festival

Judgement at Nuremberg (dir. Stanley Kramer, 1961). Watched 12.10.23

The Stranger and the Fog (dir. Bahram Beyzai, 1974). Watched 14.10.23 at BFI Southbank. London Film Festival. 35mm

I am Not a Witch (dir. Rungano Nyoni, 2017). Watched 26.10.23

Contraband (dir. Michael Powell, 1940). Watched 30.10.23 at BFI Southbank

NOVEMBER

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010). Watched 9.11.23.

Anatomy of a Fall (dir. Justine Triet, 2023). Watched 15.11.23 at Curzon Hoxton

Citizens Band (dir. Jonathan Demme, 1977). Watched 21.11.23

DECEMBER

Oh, Rosalinda!! (dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1955). Watched 2.12.23 at BFI Southbank. 35mm

How to Have Sex (dir. Molly Manning Walker, 2023). Watched 10.12.23 at the Garden cinema.

Tish (dir. Paul Sng, 2023). Watched 22.12.23

Fallen Angels (dir. Wong Kar-wai, 1996). Watched 29.12.23

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Other highlights included: Stop Making Sense (twice!) on BFI IMAX. Tears of joy, dancing in my seat. Black Narcissus on nitrate at the BFI Southbank. Crying all the way through The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp at BFI Southbank. Showing someone L’Atalante and I Know Where I’m Going, two of my favourite films, in my favourite cinema (again, BFI Southbank). The terrible Fast X, in Vue Leicester Square with one of my best friends. Walking through Shoreditch on a Saturday night, maybe the most heterosexual place imaginable, to watch Bottoms at Curzon Aldgate. Talking and crying about Jonathan Demme at a house party with a stranger. Sitting and sobbing, breathless, after How to Have Sex - steeling myself and walking home thinking about my life, the lives of all the young women I know. Watching Aftersun for the second time at the beginning of the year with my youngest sister, floods of tears overtaking us both. Seven Samurai on the BFI IMAX with my best friends. The Hunger on 35mm at the Prince Charles Cinema, with more of my best friends. And screening Some Like it Hot on 16mm in the tiny theatre at the back of Ümit and Son in Clapton, surrounded by loving, beautiful people who make me who I am.

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Pas l'temps je lis (novembre-décembre 2022)

Pas l’temps je lis est la chronique que je tiens dans le supplément culture qui paraît chaque samedi dans le quotidien Le Temps. Ci-dessous vous trouverez la liste des livres présentés dans les chroniques. Elle permettra aux abonné.es du Temps de les retouver facilement, offrira des pistes aux lecteur.ices du blog et sera utile aux éditeurs.trices qui verront ainsi quels livres ont été retenus et auront une idée du ton de la chronique.

Retrouvez la chronique sur le site du Temps

23 décembre 2022

Dessus, dessous, devant, dedans, Fanny Pageaud, Les Grandes Personnes, 2022

Tourne, pense, regarde, Beau Gardner, Les Grandes Personnes, 2022

Pizza 4 saisons, Thomas Vinau, Anne Brouillard, Ed. Thierry Magnier, 2022

17 décembre 2022

Animaux humains, Rosie Haine, Albin Michel Jeunesse, 2022

Félixe et la maison qui marchait la nuit, Sophie Bédard, La Ville brûle, 2022

10 décembre 2022

Photo de famille, Chloé Millet, Delphine Jacquot, Les Fourmis rouges, 2022

Que fait-on quand il pleut?, Ralph Doumit, Julia Wauters, Hélium, 2022

3 décembre 2022

Le Festin de Noël, Nathalie Dargent, Magali Le Huche, Gallimard Jeunesse, 2022 (L'heure des histoires)

Le dernier mouton, Ulrich Hub, Jörg Mülhe, Gallimard Jeunesse, 2022 (Premiers romans)

Le pire Noël de ma vie, Victoria Kaario, Juliette Binet, Rouergue, 2022

26 novembre 2022

Le petit livre des grandes choses, Sophie Vissière, Hélium, 2022

Bravo, maman manchot!, Chris Haughton, Thierry Magnier, 2022

Un Océan d'amour, Pieter Gaudesaboos, Hélium, 2022

Björn: une vie bien remplie, Delphine Perret, Les Fourmis rouges, 2022

Le grand livre de ma planète, Raphaële Botte, Elisa Géhin, Thierry Magnier, 2022

De Cape et de mots, Flore Vesco, Kerascoët, Dargaud, 2022

19 novembre 2022

Trésors de collectionneurs, Lucie Brunellière, Albin Michel jeunesse, 2022

Pirates Bric-à-brac, ATAK, Thierry Magnier, 2022

12 novembre 2022

Ce Jour-là, Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet, Seuil jeunesse, 2022

T'es pas mort!, Catherine Pineur, Ecole des loisirs, 2022 (Pastel)

Où vont les doudous quand ils meurent?, Laurence Salaün, Gilles Rapaport, Seuil jeunesse, 2022

5 novembre 2022

Mais où est-elle?, Marie Mirgaine, Les Fourmis rouges, 2022

Tout se transforme, Tony Durand, Motus, 2022

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Supersonique 2022 programme

La programmation de Supersonique 2022 est établie. Les horaires sont donnés à titre indicatif.

Supersonique 2022 program is now finalised!

Follow the stream on https://p-node.org (binaural stream)

> 12h interprète : Inés Be Mattia Parisse / Brulicautoma François Parra / Organocomique#2 Flore Silly / Flash 3 Camille Lacroix / Transformateur destiné à utiliser les petites énergies gaspillées Yun-Ju Ma / Vol des étoiles > 13h interprètes : Raphaële Dupire, Thomas Atienzar Jacques Boyer / A la dérive Ema Ferreira / Three Buchla Studies Laura Badie / Étude au brouillard Juliette Chartier / Cimetière spatial Sophie-Charlotte Gautier / Petite nature Michèle Bokanowski / Tabou > 14h interprètes : Giz Medium, Loreto Martinez Troncosco Fernando Curiel / Escenasonica Mélodie Duchesne / Tergiversations Bérangère Maximin / Off the Page Eliane Radigue / Biogenesis > 15h interprète : Isotta Trastevere Nicolas Jacquot / Diego Felipe Leon Ortega / Las palabras Andres Quezada / Asimetria Beatriz Ferreyra / La ba-balle du chien-chien à la mé-mère Loïc Guerineau / Prélude à l'Apocalypse de Pierre L'oreille interne / Joséphine Pom Bouvier-b / La fleur du bourdon : Fraction Marco Marini / Pardon > 16h Temps de découverte de la musique électroacoustique (par Pascal Gobin, Alain Aguilar, Franck Barriac) > 17h interprète : Philippe Petit Elżbieta Sikora / Rhapsody for the Death of a Republic Florine Mougel / A Brûle pourpoint Langham Research Centre / Terminal Voltage Traces Gabriel Prokofiev / Strange Blooms-IV - Cadence Laure Lang / EnvironMental > 18h interprète : Lundja Medjoub Seth Rozanoff / Surfaces Halim El-Dabh / Wire Recorder Piece + Leiyla and the Poet Sarah Procissi / Terra Santa Léa Thirion / The Rain Falling Through Our Minds With Glittering Pieces Leonardo Fabini / Pan en pasi > 19h interprète : Iris Kaufmann Aude Rabillon / Pour ne plus taire les jours où Nick Klein / Pfefferspray Sarah Ouazzani / Presque loup Johann Philippe / Chien ailé > 20h interprètes : Flore Silly, Loreto Martinez Troncoso Toru Takemitsu / Sky, Horse And Death Rheda M / موجة هيرتزعلى الطريق الحارقة Erik Avert / Louppe - A Gilded Eternity Delia Derbyshire / Falling, from The Dreams > 21h interprète : Samuel Bester Camille Gallice / Elsa Au miroir Duncan Pinhas / Météores Paolo Montella / Ossa Naujawanan Baidar / Simetry of Knives Valérie Vivancos / Summstein Giz Medium / Rovina-Rudero Eric Dode / Romanigro > 22h interprètes : Louise Balalas, Loïc Guerineau Hortense Gauthier / Poème-descente Francisco Meirino / Father a Still Life Mélanie Gentilhomme / Les coquelicots Jacques Brodier / Extrait du 'filtre de réalité' Aurélie Nyirabikali Lienman / Iota mikro Tyfen Guilloux / Tacet tacan Ond / The Tired Sound Of Coud iN the Brain > 23h interprètes : François Parra, Mélodie Duchesne Inès Bernard-Espina / Humus électrifié Monÿang / Vàha Nicola Cappelletti / Parataxe parallaxe Marco Dibeltulu / Il nastro di Möbius Hasan Hujairi / Hijaz Hildegard Westerkamp / Talking Rain

[gregor-samsung]

Cherchez Hortense [Looking for Hortense] (Pascal Bonitzer - 2012)

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1960s French Happy Families card set of artistic careers illustrated by Pierre Jacquot

via Ward's Morgue File

on flickr

DÉCORATEUR / Interior Decorator

ARCHITECTE / Architect

DESSINATEUR / Designer (or "Draw-er")

GRAVEUR / Engraver (more like Printmaker)

POTIER / Potter

PEINTRE / Painter

SCULPTEUR / Sculptor

From what I can pick up the French game is called "Sept Familles (7 Families)" and Pierre Jacquot did a lot of themed sets in the 1960s.

...like these 7 CINEMA FAMILIES and 7 SPORTS FAMILIES

[florekunst]

Arts Factory/mouchoirs

Galerie Arts Factory (Paris) // Focus sur les “plus beaux mouchoirs de paris”

Avec ce projet iconoclaste Pierre-Alexis Deschamps imprime sur des mouchoirs vintage les dessins d’artistes internationaux. Réalisés en sérigraphie à une soixantaine d'exemplaires, avec des encres textiles lavables.

Liste non exhaustive des artistes de la collection présentés à la galerie arts factory : Anne Mathurin - Anne Van Der Linden - Boris Pramatorov - Caroline Sury - Céline Guichard - Dav Guedin - Daisuke Ichiba - Faustine Jacquot - Flore Kunst - Frosh - Jean-Jacques Tachdjian - Marie-Pierre Brunel - Marc Brunier-Mestas - Maya McCallum - Moolinex ...

https://www.artsfactory.net/?fbclid=IwAR2n81ISvrKr4Rxl1UCTqHHlHCstbJ53-iK10J3Ibv5TRm_7Xvl2WpQgsKE

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Salut! Best Bastille Day movies? :)

Hi, that’s a pretty hard question! About the french revolution, you can watch different versions of Les Misérables (maybe by Claude Lelouch if you want it french), La révolution française by Robert Enrico and Richard T. Heffron, french movies Un peuple et son roi by Pierre Schoeller, Chouans! by Philippe de Broca, Marie-Antoinette reine de France by Jean Delannoy, Danton by Andrzej Wajda, Les adieux à la reine by Benoît Jacquot or La Marseillaise by Jean Renoir, but I can’t think of or find a movie that would exclusively talk about Bastille day. Hope this still helps! x

[antikorg]

Un risque de crise sociale aux Etats-Unis en janvier ?

Un risque de crise sociale aux Etats-Unis en janvier ?

17 déc. 2020 Boursorama Il ne reste plus beaucoup de temps pour que Républicains et Démocrates s’accordent sur un nouveau plan de relance aux Etats-Unis. Selon Pierre Sabatier, président de PrimeView, il y a urgence, sinon on risque bien d’assister à une crise sociale sans précédent en janvier. Ecorama du 16 décembre 2020, présenté par David Jacquot sur Boursorama.com

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Se confirma la participación de un Citroën ZX Rallye Raid en el Dakar Classic del Dakar 2021

Hoy a través de Twitter, ASO hizo oficial que cuenta con un destacado participante para la debutante categoría Dakar Classic en el Dakar 2021. Un Citroën ZX Rallye Raid de los 90 estará presente en la grilla de salida en Jeddah, siendo conducido por el francés  Philippe Jacquot y con el navegante  William Alcaraz.  

El Citroën ZX Rallye Raid ganó cuatro Dakar, uno con Ari Vatanen (1991) y tres con Pierre Lartigue (1994, 1995 y 1996). Además, logró un impresionante récord de 59 victorias de etapa. 

El ZX que correrá en el Dakar 2021 lo hará en la nueva categoría Dakar Classic, que no disputará exactamente los mismos tramos de los autos pero si tendrá los mismos campamentos. La carrera más que ser de velocidad, que podría exigir mucho a las máquinas restauradas y mantenidas desde los 80 a los 2000, será de regularidad. David Castera ha adelantado que habrá navegación de todos modos y algo de dunas para estos autos y que espera que los participantes vivan una verdadera experiencia Dakar. 

Fuente: ASO

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https://culturedub.com/blog/raavni-transmission/ ~ La « Transmission », vaste sujet ! Celle de la filiation, celle liée à l’enseignement, ou encore celle plus amicale. Tout ça pour vous signaler que Raavni en a fait le titre de son dernier album en date en compagnie de Manon Shanti, Thomas Jacquot, Glaö, Pierre & Joseph Burgos et K-Sann Dub System. Et je peux dores et déjà vous assurer que vous ne serez pas déçus. ~ A Culture Dub, l’on a été plus que ravi de le découvrir. Et Addon Dub va tâcher de vous transmettre ce qu’il a pu lui suggérer comme idées, nouvelles à partir d’anciennes ! ~ #dub #steppa #electrodub #ethnodub #didjeridoo #transmission #album #lp #chronique #review #bassmusic #manonshanti #thomasjacquot #glao #pierreburgos #josephburgos #ksanndub #culturedub @culturedub @raavni_dub @ksanndub #tribaldub #worlddub https://www.instagram.com/p/B_99avAFoN5/?igshid=uv5hjof8gn7n

[gregor-samsung]

Cherchez Hortense [Looking for Hortense] (Pascal Bonitzer - 2012)

[phjacquot]

#photographer : Philippe Jacquot #retoucher : Philippe Jacquot #model : Manon - Paris - @pmanon #modelagency : See Models - @seemodels Courtesy of Pierre-Antoine Rousset https://www.seemodels.co Email for inquiry : info@glamourphotography.eu Pour tous renseignements, envoyez un email à : info@glamourphotography.eu Do you want to apply as a model ? ( Free Photo Session ) Send me a DM… Vous souhaitez vous essayer en temps que modèle ? (Session gratuite) - Envoyez moi un DM ici même. Glamour Photography Studio Paris - London - Los Angeles #philippejacquot #headshot #portrait #girl#parisianmodel #glamour #inspire #inspiration #photoshoot #modeling #endlessfaces @bnwmodelsworldwide #testshoot #blackandwhite #studio @modelmanagement @portraittalents #fashion @broncolor @portraitlandadmin @globe_portraits @idealportrait #portraitpage #portraittalents #portraits_vision #bnw_exceptional @bnw_exceptional @nikoneurope (à Saint-Cloud) https://www.instagram.com/phjacquot/p/BwlWEiGFovK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=x879kcx3uio4

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Lili (1953)

There is something whimsical about certain old Hollywood Studio System movies that makes it unimaginable that such films of that type would ever be greenlighted by studio executives today. One of those films is Charles Walters’ Lili, adapted from Paul Gallico’s 1950 short story “The Man Who Hated People”. Lili is a peculiar film that defies categorization – it is neither a pure drama or comedy, and it also lightly draws upon on elements from fantasy films and musicals. Given a turn towards mature themes in American cinema in the 1960s and 70s and long-standing cultural attitudes towards lighthearted fantasy, Lili might be insufferable to some. For those willing to give it a chance and allowing it to whisk them from anything resembling reality, Leslie Caron’s starring performance – two years following a triumphant screen debut opposite Gene Kelly in An American in Paris – elevates the flimsy material.

Sixteen-year-old Lili Daurier (Caron) is an orphaned country girl wandering post-WWII France, seeking a close friend to her recently-deceased father as she hopes to find employment. That friend has recently died, and his successor harasses Lili. She is rescued by a traveling carnival magician named Marc (Jean-Pierre Aumont). Lili becomes infatuated with Marc, as he secures her a job as a carnival waitress. But instead of waiting tables, Lili – who has never experienced magic tricks before – neglects her duties as she is transfixed with Marc’s dinnertime show. Lili is sacked as a result, with Marc displaying little sympathy for her naïveté. Told to home, Lili instead attempts suicide but not before the carnival’s puppeteer Paul (Mel Ferrer, who voices the puppets but does not control their movements) strikes conversation through his puppets. Lili obviously has never heard of or experienced a puppet show either, as she treats Paul’s cast of puppet characters as if they were real. Their interactions draw a crowd, thanks to Lili’s earnestness and belief that these puppets are her friends. Paul and his partner Jacquot (Kurt Kasznar) offer Lili a job of being part of the show. She accepts, and several of heartfelt conversations between girl and puppets follow.

A special type of performance is required for this film, and Caron’s acting is the appropriate mixture to make this amalgam of fantasy, musical, and drama work. Like numerous actors that might act in front of Big Bird or Kermit, Caron must treat the puppet characters as if they were real (the script demands it, in addition to the magic needed to make Lili work). With no Muppets or Sesame Street in the 1950s to act as a thespian precedent, Caron – as well as the puppeteers – drew from a then-popular television program named Kukla, Fran, and Ollie. From there, Caron and puppeteers Walton and O’Rourke (a famous cabaret puppeteer act) and George Latshaw must be attuned to the other’s nuances in physicality and personality. Never annoying nor cloying, Caron is simply in her element here. A few years prior, Caron was a teenage ballerina in a Paris troupe when she was noticed by an admiring Gene Kelly. With Kelly’s lobbying of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) executives, Caron became an MGM contractee before production on An American in Paris  – Lili would be her fifth film with MGM and her second major starring role. Her appearance as the titular Gigi would be five years away.

The screenplay, written by Helen Deutsch, allows for some rather intimate exchanges of dialogue between Lili and the puppets as the puppets display their sensitivity to her anxieties and sources of joyfulness. This combination of excellent acting and puppetry as well as attentive screenwriting delivers Lili past sugary mediocrity.

For outside of the several puppet show scenes, Lili is overflowing with lackadaisical performances and a romance between Caron and Ferrer’s character that is never fully realized and is, frankly, a tinge unbelievable and creepy if one thinks too hard about it. Outside of Caron’s central performance, the remainder of the supporting cast feels wasted – whether they are playing caricatures (Zsa Zsa Gabor, like in so many of the films she starred in, is a peculiar afterthought) or are just there (Mel Ferrer, despite being billed second, dials in an undemanding, charisma-bereft turn that gets sucked into the mire of the story despite his obvious possessiveness... would his character just fucking smile for once?). When leaving the interactions between Caron and the puppets, Lili becomes a film without sturdy supports, with very little amid the meritorious production design from the team of Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, and Arthur Krams. The film’s carnival tentpoles are on the verge of snapping at the slightest application of subplot stress.

A lushly-composed score by Polish-American Bronislau Kaper is rooted in the lone original song appearing in Lili. That song is “Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo” (Kaper wrote the melody, which sounds rather German for a film set in France; Deutsch with the lyrics), which appears in the first encounter between Lili and the puppets. It appears immediately after Lili’s most despairing episode – a song with heartbreaking lyrics becoming a source of immense uplift. “Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo” will never appear on a list on the most memorable musical moments from that musical factory known as MGM (okay, it was featured in 1976′s That’s Entertainment, Part II and it was a minor commercial hit that did better in continental Europe than America), but Kaper and Deutsch’s song embodies that MGM musical mentality to near-perfection. Sing though your head and heart might be in agony, these films espoused. Smile and put on the show because that’s what movie stars are meant to do.

Those who have seen La La Land (2016) and have seen next to zero MGM musicals may recognize a narrative device employed at Lili’s conclusion. Despite the fact Lili is not a pure musical, the sloppy narrative is concluded with an abstract sequence where Lili’s imagination and most internal thoughts are expressed through dance. This concluding scene is not as technically accomplished as other such sequences, instead appearing perfunctory.

It’s as if Charles Walters – a director with an established track record of solid musicals including Good News (1947), Easter Parade (1948), and Summer Stock (1950) – could not decide on what exactly he wished this film to be. The structure and the parameters for a worthwhile musical, maybe even a fantasy or light romance, is there. But Walters and Deutsch never commit to a direction, and Lili – even providing for Caron’s magnificent acting and the emotional fragility she brings to her character – suffers from that indecision. But that indecision is not enough to prevent me from ever recommending Lili to anyone. Its deficiencies make it fascinating to watch, returning viewers briefly to a time of prolonged innocence, when the world outside one’s doorstep was never anything but enthralling.

My rating: 7/10

^ Based on my personal imdb rating.

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On the Scarpe River, Douai is a city that has reinvented itself many times.

Until the 1700s, it developed rich trading wool, packaged on barges along Scarpe. Then, under French rule, things became more sophisticated when Congressional Flanders and the judiciary moved to the city, armed with Douai with sublime architecture from the 18th century. In the 19th-century coal mining and metallurgy took over, and the largest mining museum in France is now a few minutes outside the city. One character who has been here during this time is Gayant, a tall ceremonial puppet that is paraded with his family during a city festival in early July and is the most popular resident of Douai. Discover the best things to do in Douai.

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1. Musée de la Chartreuse

Douai’s museum of fine arts has an astonishing set of paintings and sculptures by masters from France, Italy and the Low Countries. There are works by Delaxroix, Courbet, Sisley, Boudin, Veronese and Jacob Jordaens, as well as a large polyptych by artist Jehan Bellegambe based in Gothic Douai.

Those are a few of the must-sees, but there are 10,000 works in all, presented in chronological order in a glorious setting. The complex of galleries is a former Carthusian monastery, which itself was adapted from a 16th-century Renaissance mansion.

2. Douai Belfry

Medieval watchtowers like this one take pride in their location in cities in northern France and parts of Belgium. So much so that they’re listed as a collective UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The steamed Douai has been around since 1380, and while it looks serious at the lower levels, the top floors flourish with turrets and golden weather and the final fin. Victor Hugo sang its praises when he passed through Douai in 1837, and raved about the carillon of 62 bells, which still plays a little tune at quarter past and quarter to every hour.

There is a short concert at 10:45 and 11:45 on Saturday mornings, as well as Monday evenings at 21:00 in the summer.

3. Musée Archéologique Arkéos

This archaeology museum has assembled 40 years' worth of finds from digs in and near Douai and put them on show in a modern home that was unveiled in 2014. The artifacts range from prehistory to the middle ages and these bones, ceramics, glass items and tools paint a clear picture of life here at different stages in the past.

And using this information the museum has also laid out a sizable archaeological park, which reconstructs scenes from around Douai in the year 1000: There is a monastic, feudal motte with a wooden barn, a poultry-yard, and various shops and houses.

4. Centre Historique Minier de Lewarde

This foundry in Lewarde ran from 1931 to 1971, and after it was shut down, it was selected as my museum and display. It is the largest museum of its kind in France and sheds light on a compelling period in the region’s not too distant past.

You’ll descend deep into the mine to feel firsthand what it would have been like for people who had to do this every day. Artifacts and mining equipment are displayed in the main hall, where former miners are happy to share their recollections.

Meanwhile, most of the facilities like the infirmary, bathroom/showers, lamp-shop, and administrative offices are exactly as they were when the mine shut down.

5. Palais de Justice

The Parliament of Flanders moved to the site of a former monastery by the Scarpe in 1714, laying the tracks for Douai to become the judicial city it is today. Both the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Court of Appeal and the Nord Court of Assizes are here.

On weekends in summer you can arrange tours of the interior, and it’s worth it to see the Grand’Chambre of the Flanders Parliament. This was completed in 1762 with fine murals, sculpted wooden pilasters, and gilded plasterwork.

One former inmate of the prison by the water was Eugène François Vidocq, a criminal turned criminalist, who set up the first-ever private detective agency and helped conceive the French police department.

6. Douai’s Fortifications

The city’s defenses were mostly dismantled after 1891 to allow Douai to build healthier, more spacious neighborhoods. But several pieces survive and you could keep these in mind as you make your way around the city.

The chunky Porte de Valenciennes is probably the most remarkable, dating from 1453 and made from sandstone. It’s a large, square structure with three passageways (two of which were added in 1880 to allow road traffic) surmounted by an old guardhouse.

Louis XIV passed through this gate in 1667 after Douai surrendered to him. The Porte d’Arras is a smaller gate from the 1300s, with two circular towers, while the Tour des Dames is sandstone tower from 1425 in the park of the same name.

7. Collégiale Saint-Pierre

The city’s defenses were mostly dismantled after 1891 to allow Douai to build healthier, more spacious neighborhoods. But several pieces survive and you could keep these in mind as you make your way around the city.

The chunky Porte de Valenciennes is probably the most remarkable, dating from 1453 and made from sandstone. It’s a large, square structure with three passageways (two of which were added in 1880 to allow road traffic) surmounted by an old guardhouse.

Louis XIV passed through this gate in 1667 after Douai surrendered to him. The Porte d’Arras is a smaller gate from the 1300s, with two circular towers, while the Tour des Dames is sandstone tower from 1425 in the park of the same name.

8. Old Douai Boat Tour

Because Douai and the Scarpe River go hand in hand, you can step down the Embarcadère du Palais de Justice on the Place de Pollinchove in the summer.

At the wooden pier are motorboats waiting for you on a short journey of the old city, where there are small monuments, relics of the waterfront industry and elegant riverside houses.

An experienced guide will fill you in on 2,000 years of Douai’s history, pointing out the importance of every bridge, wharf, warehouse, and lock.

9. Small Sights around Douai

You can keep investigating Douai on foot to see the big changes that happened here in the 18th century when the judiciary arrived. Many sophisticated homes were built around this time, like the Hôtel du Dauphin on Place d’Armes, now housing Douai’s tourist office.

See also Louis XV Hôtel batAoust, which became the headquarters of the Administrative Court of Appeals in 1999. On a different tack, there are the Fonderie des Canons, which is a garden containing the vestiges of a 17th-century arsenal and cannon foundry.

Directly opposite is the Hôtel Romagnant, the charming 17th-century home of the artillery commissioner.

10. Les Fêtes de Gayant

Douai wouldn’t be the same without its family of ceremonial giants, which are huge effigies that are carried around the city in processions for three days at the start of July.

The oldest, Gayant was born in 1530, and unlike in other cities in the region, Douai neglected to give him a name, just calling him Gay Gayant, the giant! Later, he was joined by a wife, Marie Cagenon, and three children, Binbin, Fillon and Jacquot.

They make their annual appearance on the first Sunday after July 5, and the 8.5-meter Gayant needs to be carried by six men hidden under his robes.

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