Numéro 253

Dancer and singer, acclaimed for his performance at the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games, Lucky Love's music celebrates the art of loving with all one's being. A few months after the release of his first album, he embarked on a tour of France. Known for dissecting bodies and revealing their power to mutate, the immense filmmaker David Cronenberg unveils his new film Les Linceuls on April 30, exploring how the feeling of love binds us viscerally to the loved one, even in death.

Mais aussi : un entretien avec Nziria, qui puise dans les traditions napolitaines une vision quasi chamanique de la passion, fusionnée avec le hard-core nord-européen. Un focus sur le sculpteur Duane Hanson, dont des sculptures hyperréalistes sont actuellement à voir à la Bourse de commerce. Une rencontre avec la chanteuse soul Mereba, auteure d’un nouvel album introspectif, intimiste et engagé. entre soul et folk. Une conversation avec le vidéaste Diego Marcon, dont les films fascinants ont été montrés à la Biennale de Venise comme au festival de Cannes. 

In a world where everything must be controlled, measured and rationalised, passion unsettles: it escapes control and refuses compromise. Also in this issue: Victoria Luengo, who brought two films to this year's Cannes Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar's Autofiction and Rodrigo Sorogoyen's L'Être aimé; Leïla Bekhti, whose work relentlessly explores identity and female emancipation, and who has turned her red-carpet appearances into a powerful statement; Eartheater, unveiling a seventh album of experimental electroacoustic pop; La Vie d'une femme, starring Léa Drucker and Mélanie Thierry; Arthur Harari's L'Inconnue, in competition at Cannes with Léa Seydoux and Niels Schneider.

By a swimming pool in Los Angeles, Taylor Russell opens up with fire and daring in this issue. Also in this issue: Pedro Almodóvar, who has just presented Autofiction in Cannes, a dive into the workings of his mind and a creative process he describes as an inner ocean of emotions; Alewya, the London-based singer, songwriter and producer releasing her debut album this summer; Iliona, at 25 one of the brightest stars of the French-speaking scene; Charlotte Cardin, named female artist of the year.