#l'express

[chaplinfortheages]

[thomas-querqy]

Dans ma bibliothèque, il y a des crimes, des incestes, des pédophiles, des violeurs, des salauds, des nazis, des femmes qui sévissent, des enfants pervers et des vieillards capables de tuer - et même quelques humains bons. [...] Espérer une société débarrassée de ses criminels en censurant ses artistes revient à fabriquer un monde aseptisé de décérébrés qui, à coup sûr, viendront à décompenser en arrachant les yeux de leur mère.

“Ma bibliothèque ne respecte ni la mélanine, ni les sexes, ni la bienséance”, une chronique d’Abnousse Shalmani dans l’Express du 5 janvier 2023, à propos de la cabale contre Bastien Vivès

[debutart]

New cover for L’Express France for a special issue about the Tech giants, illustrated by Yann Legendre.

[knittinganddrinkingtea]

Soekie Gravenhorst by Emma Tempest for L’express November 2015

[elizabethanism]

"Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clichés."

~ Eugène Ionesco

"L'Express", 28 january 1960

[artfulfashion]

Virginie Lentulus for L’Express Styles, June 2018; shot by Bruno Werzinski

[danielriddlerodriguez]

EARTHBIND --Laura Post

He asks me casually if I ever want to get married, and I think about how I can't even stand guided tours.

A little girl at the top of the jungle gym shrieks, "Housekeeping!" imperiously at the children in the sandbox below.

Mira tells me her second day of medical school was a human dissection lab. While trying to make an incision, she looked down and realized she'd been holding the cadaver's hand.

I move to Ohio in another attempt to trap and release myself. I will do something ridiculous. I will do something.

Drinking beer and trying to split open an acorn squash, I drive thin white blade of a knife deep into my thumb.

What can love do in the hands of the fearful?

[buddaimond]

Being famous is not unpleasant, because it allows projects like Good Time to be brought to light. But it stops there. My job is not to be star, but to be an actor... Success offers freedom, for example, the freedom to refuse blockbusters.

Robert Pattinson with L'Express

“His filmography is composed mostly of films d'auteur worthy of interest: 'Life' by Anton Corbijn, 'TLCOZ' by James Gray, ... the facts speak for themselves. As a result, we take him very seriously when he declares his admiration for 'My King' by Maïwenn, his desire to work with Olivier Assayas, or his passion for Michel Houellebecq.”

He quotes an excerpt from a poem by Michel Houellebecq. (from 'The Meaning of the Fight') with a thick French accent but in the text: "We went through fatigues and desires without remembering the taste of the childhood's dreams." [In French: Nous avons traversé fatigues et désirs sans retrouver le goût des rêves de l'enfance]. If he doesn't quote the next part "There is not much in the depths of our smiles, we are prisoners of our transparency", it's because he doesn't relate to it. And he's right.

Translation, link and source: Pattinson Art Work