Jeanne Mas on tour, and portraits of Joaquin Phoenix and Patrick Dewaere in books

The iconic singer of the 1980s Jeanne Mas continues to make headlines, with the release of a new album, Mon Elix , and a tour throughout France that begins at the Trianon in Paris on February 27. Jeanne Mas expresses to Tout Public her enthusiasm for being on stage. "There is a kind of party spirit, and a joy of getting together, of singing together the songs that the audience loved, of putting on a real show. And then on stage, I am with my team, so it is a family that I take with me." A stage that nevertheless causes her a lot of stage fright, which leads her to frequently question the programming of her concerts. "Stage fright makes me say: I can't do it anymore, I can't do it anymore. You know, it's a bit like Jacques Brel, it made him sick, and it's the same for me ," she confides. Despite everything, "we love it so much and we have so much fun that we want to continue," shares the singer.

"There is a form of freedom on stage that you don't have elsewhere."

During her concerts, the singer does not hesitate to replay her most famous songs, such as En rouge et noir, Toute première fois , or Johnny, Johnny . Songs that have "marked people's lives, and therefore also marked mine" , acknowledges Jeanne Mas. A moment that also allows the singer to "stop singing for a moment and listen to [her audience singing in her place]" , adds Jeanne Mas with humor.

Jeanne Mas will be in concert at the Trianon from February 27 to March 2, 2025, then on tour throughout France. Her new album "Mon Elix" is available now on streaming platforms.

Both actors have left their mark on cinema in their own way, and each has a book dedicated to them, which is being released in bookstores today in the Stories collection by Capricci. Yal Sadat wrote about the American Joaquin Phoenix, and Sébastien Gimenez about the Frenchman Patrick Dewaere, who died in 1982. Several portraits of actors have been produced in this same collection, which gives great freedom to the authors, which Yal Sadat confirms. "It allows us to return almost etymologically to what it is to be an actor, that is to say to produce acts. We tell the story of a character, we draw a portrait of him in action." The latter explains that "Joaquin Phoenix is ​​acting, but it is also screaming, it is singing, it is having a car accident..." .

"We have the trajectory of someone who is almost invented by tragedy, even before having a first significant role in the cinema."

Yal Sadat tells the story of how Joaquin Phoenix was revealed to the general public and made his entrance onto the Hollywood scene. This happened in a rather unusual way, with his call to alert the emergency services of the death of his brother River Phoenix, whom Yal Sadat describes as "tearful, panicked, anguished" , who then "went on tour all over America". This call includes the actor's screams that will leave a lasting impression on people's imaginations. Yal Sadat finally explains that it is with these screams on the phone that Joaquin Phoenix "came into the world as an actor" .

"It is because he used his personal traumas that [Patrick Dewaere] managed to be so accurate in his interpretations."

Sebastian Gimenez

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Sébastien Gimenez, for his part, dedicated his book to an actor who disappeared years ago now, Patrick Dewaere, and whom he presents as "a child without an identity" , because he never knew his real father. This striking biographical element gave the book its subtitle, "A baby in the crowd", which is also the phrase of a dialogue from the film Coup de tête, imagined by Francis Veber "without really knowing Patrick Dewaere's past" , says the author. For Sébastien Gimenez, Dewaere "has the particularity of reliving on screen these traumas that he personally experienced" , which gives him a very great "psychological depth" and a real "capacity for interpretation" , which leads the author to support the fact that Patrick Dewaere would have "still had his place in today's cinema, at the age he would have been" . Sébastien Gimenez also explains that while Patrick Dewaere's recognition is undeniable today, it has not always been like this. "It's a bit of a paradox with Dewaere, he was only truly recognized once he died," he shares. A book which will therefore allow film buffs to discover or rediscover this essential actor of French cinema.

The book by Yal Sadat Joaquin Phoenix, Anxiety is a Profession, and that of Sébastien Gimenez, Patrick Dewaere, A Baby in the Crowd (Stories collection published by Capricci), can now be found in bookstores.

Two days before the ^50th César Awards ceremony , the Ministry of Culture has just announced the launch of a platform that indicates where to watch audio-described films, and which will allow visually impaired people to have a more interesting cinematic experience.

Report by Alice Kachaner, journalist in the science, health and environment department at France Inter.