Polar – See you in Split with Jurica Pavicic

VShe is a child-eyed colossus, a Croatian mirrored wardrobe who strolls gently through Split, his hometown, the heart of his novels. We jostle to weave through the narrow streets, the tourist season has started, the old town is teeming like Mont-Saint-Michel on an Ascension weekend. It starts, this season, the novelist tells us mischievously, ” when [son] grocer takes out a huge fridge for gin and vodka, and fills the condom display! “. Young people, revelers, tourists come by the thousands every day, wiggle their hips, by night, full sound facing the Adriatic. Nothing to do with the city he knew, that his books tell.

Jurica Pavicic is a regular at Cannes – he is a film critic – but it was in Lyon that we met him the…

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