“The intention of this first novel that I publish is to put into perspective the attitude of France on New Caledonia” Explains Enzo Lesourt Friday May 2 on Franceinfo, at the microphone of all audiences. In The uprising of the Pacific, The author, former adviser to the mayor of Grenoble, changes history and has a question: what would have happened if the “yes” had won during the referendum on the independence of New Caledonia?
Between strategic geopolitical space for the French state and the transethnic desire of communities to regain control of their story, decades of appeasement after the Noumea and “Referendum torpedoing” : Franco-Caledonian relations are complex and dissected in the novel by Enzo Lesourt which engages in a work of investigation. “To push the real effect as far as possible and understand when France wins its commitments”, The author went “Until to follow and trace the agenda of the President of the Republic, which is accessible on the Internet. The real actors are in their real role, in their true character, in the novel”.
Because if, after the riots having rocked the island in 2024, the French government now seems to play the listening card – Manuel Valls being on site for a particularly extensive period -, this “Astitude of appeasement remains very recent”, According to the former advisor. “It is the latest lashing of eyelashes in the history of France in New Caledonia. Until May 2024, France has made politics, not from burnt Earth, but an absurd policy, via force in every sense of the word. We can also go back to the early 1980s, when an independence was murdered by French elite shooters. The attitude of France in New Caledonia was problematic for decades, What armed, equipped this feeling of independence and this anger which explodes today “.
“I wonder about the consistency and solidity of the rule of law. When you have a state that is ready to sell off its principles, its word, to cheat and after asking, a year only after all the actors to trust it?”
Enzo Lesourtin franceinfo
20,000 kilometers from the metropolis, “All the elements of a tragedy are set up” and Enzo Lesourt seizes it for “Ask an intimate question to all French people: what is the mission of France? What is the vocation of France? What is the fate of France? Because what is playing there is speaking eminently what is happening here.”
The uprising of the Pacific (at WildProject editions), Enzo Lesourt, available in bookstores.
With the Comte de Monte Cristo In number one of its box office, the land of Tsars has been, for several decades, the second market for French films in the world, and the war in Ukraine has changed anything. This is what an investigation of the newspaper concludes The world Led by Anne Koriagina, Ukrainian author and translator. This observation is explained, according to her, by the fact that“On the first day of the invasion, the United States launched very strict sanctions and the major American studios have left Russia. Since then, literally, no American film was released. However, a few days later, the European Commission announced its sanctions and cultural goods were excluded.”
Legal and rational therefore, this export, however, underpins other ethical questions and questions the potential profit, both financial and ideological, that Vladimir Putin would have to draw from French cinema. For the author, the answer to this question is complex. “With one hand Russian distributors, can buy French films by saying that they are against Putin and at the same time working on films that speak of war, which are propaganda”. And if some voices affirm their pro-Kremlin positions, like that of Gaspar Noé, Anne Koriagina testifies to collide, most of the time, to “A certain embarrassment to answer questions”.
“There are people who say that it is important to show French films to the Russians, to show them something else, to show them that the West is not closed towards Russia. It was an argument that I heard a lot.”
Anna Kaoginain franceinfo
On the other side of the front line, “Cinemas have almost never stopped working (…). We feel in Ukraine real solidarity on the part of French cinema professionals”.
French films always at the top of the poster in RussiaAnna Korioagina investigation for the world.
For this fourth jazz album on which he poses his voice, the actor of Jurassic Park surrounds himself with shooting meetings and notably invites Ariana Grande, Scarlett Johansson or Cynthia Erivo.
“It is a collective and it is the best thing in the world. You can always prepare for more, for better, as I have learned by being an actor. But in the end, you send everything to reach a higher level and with this group, I really like what we have done.”
Jeff Goldblumin franceinfo
Now one foot in the big screen and the other in the studio, “The two experiences can be both painful and delicious”entrusts Jeff Goldblum to Franceinfo.
Blooming From Jeff Golblum, available on all platforms.
A program with the participation of Yann Bertrand and Thierry Fiorile, journalists at the Franceinfo Culture Service.
