Timothée Chalamet in a perfect unknown, the play still a divine day, the plum Nourry exhibition… The culture week of Madame Figaro

The Bob Dylan enigma

In 1961, guitar under his arm, a young man from Minnesota arrived in New York to meet Woody Guthrie, legend of folk hospitalized for degeneration. Also present, Pete Seeger, another figure in protest music, takes the boy under his wing. And James Mangold to tell the artistic birth of Bob Dylan in this youth slice that does not seek to capture the elusive. Cultivating the mystery, the poet musician remains an enigma at the end of the film which, through the first career choices, tells of his aversion to celebrity or his refusal to be locked in a current. Despite female characters who lack body and an overly tiny evocation of the artist’s commitment, A perfect stranger Take in musical sequences that James Mangold sublime as he had done in Walk the Linehis biopic on Johnny Cash. Working without lining on the guitar, the harmonica and the song, Timothée Chalamet impresses musically, which he takes over Blowin’ in the Wind or Like a Rolling Stoneemblematic title of the icon rock turn. Behind the microphone of Joan Baez, Folk Star and intermittent lover of the young Dylan, Monica Barbaro stands out as a talent to follow. M. L.

A perfect strangerby James Mangold, with Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro…

François Cluzet, disadvantage

This is one of the surprises of 2025: François Cluzet, headliner of French cinema, rare in the theater (he has not gathered on stage since Jacques and Mylènefrom Gabor Rassov, in 1999), is on the boards. Such a long absence, twenty-five, filled today by a single-in-scène, Another divine dayadapted spectacle of Denis Michelis’s novel. It is the actor Emmanuel Noblet, a large accustomed to literary adaptations (we remember Repair the living According to Maylis de Kerangal, Molière with the best only-in-scène), who is at the origin of the project. “There are novels that are made to go on stage, and like them actors that we dream of one day seeing in the theater. I adapted this text by imagining François Cluzet on stage, thinking of his voice, his looks, his sensitivity and the disturbing force he puts in his roles, “he explains in his note of intent. The story is that of Robert, a psychiatrist, who decides to change methods to treat his patients: here he is in a psychiatric hospital. A quest for efficiency that is a prelude to its ambition to change the world. Therapy or madness? In any case, a comedy like a psychological thriller carried by a virtuoso actor. Lc

Another divine daystaging of Emmanuel Noblet, from January 25 to April 18, at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, in Paris. Bouffesparisiens.com

Eight prune women nourry

Willendorf, Grimaldi, Lespugue… of these Paleolithic Venus, we know the heavy breasts, the broad hips, the plump bellies. As if the center of gravity of these faceless bodies was housed at the basin level, matrix of origins. The spectrum of these female roundabouts hangs over the Dionysian Venus of Plum Nourry, its first public order, in the right line of Terracotta Daughters (2011-2031), Mater Earth (2020-2023) et Statues Also Breathe (2022), collaborative, previous or in progress projects, all digging the vast question of the “mother land”. This time, it is a hundred eight sculptures, each of 1.70 m, adorned with a clay skin ranging from black to ocher and brown to white, a reflection of the “diversity of the territory”, which will join in 2026 The Atrium of Saint-Denis-Pleyel, new Grand Paris Express station where the artist worked in tandem with the architect Kengo Kuma. Eight “mini” versions of this monumental installation populate the Templon gallery this winter in Paris. These buns with nuanced patinas marry the forms of eight models, encountered at the Maison des Femmes de Saint-Denis, an aid center for victims of violence founded by Ghada Hatem, obstetrician gynecologist. A prototype on a scale 1, around thirty mussels from the Grandpalaisrmn workshop, some hybrids as well as a documentary signed Vincent Lorca complete this ode to the universal power of the second sex. V. H.

“Prune Nourry, Venus”, until March 1, at the Templon gallery, in Paris. Templon.com