2023-05-03 00:44:24
Linda Lorin takes us on a discovery of our artistic, cultural and natural heritage. Roubaix, Arnaud Desplechin’s intimate cinema – Lisbon and Coimbra, two cities, two fados – In Mozambique, Alcinda’s coconut milk pumpkin leaves – In Tangier, Brian Jones’ vacation.
Roubaix, the intimate cinema of Arnaud Desplechin
Roubaix recounts the glories and disappointments of the North better than any other city. Formerly at the height of industrial power, today in touch with French social realities, Roubaix is a real reduced model of our society. It provides Arnaud Desplechin with the decor but also the theme for many of his films. From the bourgeois house ofA Christmas tale in the rough streets of Roubaix, a lightRoubaix has never ceased to inspire the filmmaker.
Lisbon and Coimbra, two cities, two fados
Between Lisbon and fado, the love story has lasted since the 19th century. But if the capital claims the paternity of this musical genre imbued with a typically Portuguese nostalgia, another city prides itself on being at the origin of a different style of fado: Coimbra. Two rival cities which, in the 1960s, silenced their differences to sing with one voice once morest a common enemy: the dictatorship of Salazar. Fado asserts itself as a social, identity song and the expression of the Portuguese soul.
In Mozambique, Alcinda coconut milk pumpkin leaves
In Marracuene, Alcinda prepares a typical dish of the country. The main ingredient: pumpkin leaves, which grow very easily here. She cuts them finely and grates a coconut to extract the milk. She then cooks them with onions and tomatoes, then adds the coconut milk, peanut powder and shrimp.
In Tangier, Brian Jones’ vacation
On the other side of the Strait of Gibraltar, Tangier is constantly subject to the waves of the Atlantic. In the 1960s, a wind of freedom blew over the city and carried with it a celebrity with a tragic destiny…
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