No need to be a football lover to throw yourself into The arenasCamille Berton’s first film.
Thriller in the Jungle of Professional Football, this feature film tells the story of Brahim, a young player from a Lyonnais training center who, when his club is slow to offer him a contract, falls into a spiral that exceeds him with his cousin as an agent.
“It is a film that talks about the society in which we live, confidence, loyalty and love in a world governed by money and how we try to make its values subsist.”
Camille Petronin franceinfo
Conflicts of loyalty, Monegasque yachts and crooked combinations, the director makes the bet of “Tell what you don’t see on Sunday on television.” During the 94 minutes that the film lasts, therefore search neither balloon nor land, Camille Perton prefers “To say the career of a player. This career is played on the field, but it is also played in other arenas. And the arenas that we are talking about, it is precisely these behind the scenes, these places of negotiations, negotiations and the gray areas of football.”
Politics above all, The arenas could “Going elsewhere, but football has this particularity of being a paroxysmal environment. The amounts are delusional and the young people who become footballers often come from fairly modest, quite disadvantaged environments. The social ascent which is permitted by football is dazzling and dizzying. It is a kind of parable of the world in which we live.”
A comic strip that deciphers the Mediterranean
“This awareness, this collision between childhood memories which are quite pleasant, bathed in a little nostalgia and then this daily horror which gradually transforms the Mediterranean into a cemetery.” This is one of the starting points of Mediterraneanthe last comic strip of the press designer Aurel.
-Guided by the desire to tell, question and transmit by “A journalistic approach”, The author meets historians, scientists or inhabitants to try to identify the shores of a fascinating sea.
“On our human scale of a few decades, it has the impression that antiquity and prehistory, it is very distant but if we look, lots of things have not moved so much as that.”
Between memories, culinary scents and musical tunes, comics Questions in particular the famous and supposed unity of the Mediterranean. “Me, I arrived with this idea, which is not entirely false, to say that there is a cousin on all the banks of the Mediterranean. And I questioned specialists who always have this little downside. They say: ‘Be careful, because the unity of the Mediterranean, it is often an idea that comes from the north of Europe and it is regularly marred by a little colonialism.’ ‘ So beware of this unitary thought which would tend to erase differences where there is rather a mosaic, a kaleidoscope. “
The Goncourt Prize in trial for privacy
Houristhe book of the Franco-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud rewarded for the Goncourt Prize in 2024, does it stage the life of a real person? Does it affect privacy as reproach Saâda Arbane?
Tried “Quite common” By Anna Arzoumanov, lecturer in French language and literature and specialist in freedom of creation and borders of fiction, these questions will be raised during a trial that started this Wednesday, May 2025. “On the other hand, it is an extraordinary affair insofar as it is a novelist who is a Goncourt price, but also by the fact that a battle is played with Algeria around Kamel Daoud in this novel.”
Supposed to abstract from any political context, the judges will have the mission of determining whether the person described in the novel is recognizable and, in the event of a positive response, they will have to “Ask yourself whether freedom of creation should prevail over privacy.”
Under the aegis of two international judgments mandates issued by Algeria, Kamel Daoud will soon be heard by justice.
