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Cinema

Manoel de Oliveira was only ninety-seven years old when he completed "the magic mirror". But we do not go see this film to realize what is able to a venerable Centennial. Nor, indeed, for fun. "The magic mirror" belongs to the category of metaphysical films. The main character, Alfreda (Leonora Silveira), is a large bourgeois. It is fair in its property. Priests, a Professor (exquisite Michel Piccoli) created, musicians repeat. She dreams of an appearance of the Virgin Mary. She has questions to ask about the life, death, revelation. The atmosphere recalled films of Luis Buñuel, but the LUSITANO is not mockery of Spanish. It smiles, never beyond. Some scenes are obscure, but it is captivated by this tale where there is question of faith, love, purity, extreme poverty.

For teens, a single word in order: "Twilight Chapter 1 Fascination", a "love affair" Gothic girl character and a beautiful virtuous vampire; charges, romantic and funny, an American film hits of Catherine Hardwicke, derived from a huge bestseller. And for all, two beautiful independent films: "Frozen River" by Courtney Hunt award-winning Festival Sundance , the story of a mother courage fighting for the survival of his small family, on the fringes of America and the Canada; and "Mutum" of Sandra Kogut, a chronic intimate the harsh life of the peasants of the Sertao, through the sensitive eyes of a young boy.

Performances

Theatre school is already underway in the capital. In the menu, some shows lighthouses as the duo of shock André Engel - Michel Piccoli for a new production of "minetti", Thomas Bernard at the Théâtre de la colline (01.44.62.52.52). Odeon (01.44.85.40.40) embarked on two fronts with "Three tales of Grimm", sardonic Music Hall versions of Olivier Py Berthier workshops, and the first part of a cycle Howard Barker, "Gertrude (the cry)", staged by Giorio Barberio Corsetti with the divine Anne Alvaro. Bobigny MC 93 (01.41.60.72.72), Jean-Michel Rabeux offers "The furious Corps" a harsh and detonating show, eight SDF dancing, singing a strange round of life and death. At Grenoble, in the MC2, Chantal Morel tackles with panache to the "owned", Dostoyevsky. Note in the regions: "Artists at the lycée", which starts on January 12 (up to 16): in the high school city of Alès, the lycée Jean-Baptiste Dumas, the national stage of the crater Orchestra five days of performances with unpublished texts ordered from authors such as Daniel Keene (04.66.52.90.00).

Side dance, thunderstrike back to Paris, with a much-anticipated "Good morning Mr. gershwin", signed Montalvo-Hervieu at Chaillot (01.53.65.30.00), while Pina Bausch will probably display complete with two creations, "wiesenland" and "Sweet Mambo" in the theatre of the city (01.42.74.22.77). You have chance to find places to dance (01.46.97.98.10) cited Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, the essential "mix" of hip hop and contemporary dance with eight creations in the program.

Classical music lovers will have still some concerts of the new year in France, as in Avignon, at the Opéra-Théâtre (04.90.82.81.40), Saturday and Sunday. Mahler will honor in the Southwest Bordeaux "The song of the Earth", by the Orchestra Bordeaux - Aquitaine (05.56.00.85.95), direction Schrottner, tonight at the Palace of Sports and Toulouse the "Symphony No. 6" by the Orchestre du Capitole (05.61.63.13.13), Saturday night at the Halle aux grains. Paris has an appointment with Bach and his "Brandenburg Concertos" under the aegis of Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists, Saturday night, cited music (01.44.84.44.84); with Mendelssohn and his opera "Elias" (national Orchestra of France, Masur) the same evening at the theatre des Champs-Elysées (01.49.52.50.50); the TCE, and always with the awesome "Giardino Harmonico" in a program Händel, Germiniani, Sammartini, Monday 12.

French song fans have already taken their places to Julien Clerc at the Casino de Paris (08.92.69.89.26) since two albums, the star has regained all its melodic verve. Cocoon, one of the most interesting French groups of the moment (style pop-folk), is at the olympia (08.92.68.33.68), Monday night.

Exhibitions

Until the great rendezvous "arty" of the new year, a small session of catch-up in Paris: find a pair of shock at the musée Rodin (): the meeting between Freud and Rodin, two collectors of antique sculpture. "Van Dyck, European portrait" is the star of the beautiful museum Jacquemart-André ()

(andre). A retrospective-rich nice surprises. The musée Dapper ( .fr) had the good idea to organize an exhibition on "Women in the arts of Africa" in 150 works. Another must, "Jacques Prévert-Paris la belle" at City Hall (), a thorough poet artist retrospective.