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Miami overwhelmed by its septic tanks
Biologist Aliza Karim takes water samples from a canal in Miami, Florida, looking for indicators of fecal contamination. LAURENT WEYL / ARGOS In the upscale neighborhood of Coral Gables, in…
The Sierras, sisters in the city, divas on stage
Nadine and Melanie Sierra, at the Paris Opera on December 14, 2023. DARIA SVERTILOVA FOR M LE MAGAZINE DU MONDE Nadine and Melanie Sierra, sisters both born in Florida, have…
Victor Le Masne, the one-man band of French pop
Victor Le Masne during rehearsals for the musical show Starmania, in Nice, in September 2022. ANTHONY DORFMANN What is the common denominator between Starmania, at the Seine musicale until the…
In Ukraine, laughter as a bulletproof vest
This morning, after a long drone attack on Kyiv [Kiev, en ukrainien] During the night, I started my day at the conversation club with my students. This is an hour…
“The Origin of the World”, backdrop of Lacanian psychoanalysis
“The Origin of the World”, by Gustave Courbet (1866). HERVE LEWANDOWSKI / RMN-GRAND PALAIS (MUSÉ D’ORSAY) Scandals caused by works of art are like fresh flowers. They are bright but…
Humor and censorship, “was it better before”?
It’s one of the avatars of “it was better before” : humor would no longer be what it was. We could no longer laugh and even less make people laugh.…
From “Virgin Suicides” to “Priscilla”, Sofia Coppola’s captives
The 52-year-old filmmaker filmed a rich gallery of women locked in their golden prison. With “Priscilla”, the story of the (very) young wife of Elvis Presley, in theaters on January…
“I was explaining to them that when I met you, you were the biggest petomane in France”
LTheir divorce will soon celebrate its fifth anniversary. And twice a year, the same journey of the tortured. At each of their children’s birthdays, they find themselves confined in the…
You asked for Pierre The Police, don’t quit
M The magazine of the World chose laughter as a common thread for its end-of-year issue. In thirteen episodes, find these portraits, reports or investigations on the power of humor.…
Anne Sylvestre, icon of a new generation of feminist artists
Anne Sylvestre. CRISTIANA COUCEIRO FOR “M LE MAGAZINE DU MONDE”. STAN WIEZNIAK / UNIVERSAL MUSIC FRANCE / GAMMA-RAPHO / UNSPLASH / ALAMY It had to be the best birthday present…
In Quebec, inclusive humor can be learned
Making people laugh is work. A few days before the presentation of their end-of-year show, on December 12 at Club Soda, one of Montreal’s legendary cabarets, the students of the…
“There is still tomorrow”, the successful film that launches the rebellion against patriarchy in Italy
Paola Cortellesi, in Rome, December 5, 2023. STEPHANIE GENGOTTI Italy welcomed its first film as if it had been waiting for it forever. The great popular actress – and now…