Macha Makeïeff

“Everyone steals according to one’s position in society.” A social critique, a credo to live by, and a recipe for the hilarious satire of Jacques Offenbach’s Les Brigands! The Opéra Comique’s rollicking 2011 production took full advantage of the talents of stage directors Macha Makeïeff and Jérôme Deschamps (members of the wildly successful French comedy troupe Les Deschiens) and the accomplished music director François-Xavier Roth.

With this DVD and Blu-ray of Rodelinda, one of Handel’s most emotionally complex operas, conductor Emmanuelle Haïm adds to her impressive Erato catalogue of the composer’s works. The imaginative production, by Jean Bellorini, was seen at the Opéra de Lille in Autumn 2018, and the cast features soprano Jeanine De Bique in the title role, countertenor Tim Mead as her husband Bertarido and another countertenor, Erato’s rising star Jakub Józef Orliński as Unulfo. Reviewing the production, Le Monde noted Emmanuelle Haïm’s “intimate connection with this music, which she knows how to unleash in all its violence, passion and heart-wrenching expressivity.”

Stéphane Goudet is all over the Tati box-set as the preeminent Tati scholar, so it is only fitting that he conclude the disc with a half hour lecture that concludes the themes and methods of the filmmaker.

This documentary traces Jacques Tati's rise from the Parisian Music-Hall stage to his Oscar winning films of the 1950s, the documentary then explains how Tati bet all he had on his fourth film 'PlayTime' and how this mammoth film ended prematurely the career of a genius while also giving the world one of the most beautiful films ever made.

언제나 로맨스를 꿈꾸는 오리지널 장화신은 고양이와 방앗간 집 막내아들의 좌충우돌 모험이 펼쳐진다! 아버지에게 유산으로 ‘장화신은 고양이’를 받은 피터. 공주를 사랑하지만 무일푼인 그를 위해 장화신은 고양이는 피터를 ‘카라바스 후작’으로 만들기로 결심하고, 성으로 들어가 왕과 왕비에게 선물을 바치며 호감을 얻는다. 왕비의 산책길을 미리 파악해 피터를 자연스럽게(?) 왕비에게 소개시키는데 성공한 고양이와 피터. 성으로 초대된 피터에게 반한 왕과 왕비는 피터의 성을 방문하기를 원하고, 피터를 시기하는 챔블란은 피터가 후작이 아닌, 보잘 것 없는 방앗간 집 막내아들이라는 사실을 알아내는데… 과연 피터는 위기를 극복하고 무사히 공주와의 결혼에 성공할 수 있을것인가?!

A documentary focusing on the architecture in Jacques Tati's 1958 film MON ONCLE.

With their faces of sweet lunatics or lighted beaufs, citizens of the ordinary or pochards between two wines, they interpret, in twos or threes, conversations seized on the zincs of the bistros or in the corners of our kitchens. A few minutes of delirium or absurdity. The Deschiens are the actors of Jérôme Deschamps's troupe, who, as usual, with his accomplice Macha Makeieff, track down the little nonsense of everyday life, between humor and ferocity.