Welcome to the Monastery: Investigating Reality TV’s Controversial Corsican Convent

2024-01-11 06:44:39

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Broadcast from Friday January 12, the reality TV show features a handful of people in the Corsican convent of Corbara, obscuring the heavy past of sectarian excesses and sexual violence of the two communities highlighted.

The images are breathtaking. In the distance, we can see the Mediterranean. Nestled halfway up, the Catholic convent of Corbara, surrounded by olive groves, clings discreetly to the Corsican mountain. Balagne, this corner of the north of the island known for its beautiful villages, is now a blessed land for the jet-set. Actors, singers and politicians, such as Muriel Robin, Jacques Dutronc or Agnès Buzyn, have purchased sumptuous properties there, between Lumio and Monticello. In Corbara, once through the door of the convent, organized around a cloister with pink walls, it is a new enchantment.

“What mattered to me was that there were beautiful images. I wanted to find a place that was beautiful. At the Corbara convent, this is the case,” explains producer Chantal Barry, known to be close to the French tycoon Vincent Bolloré and president of the ZeWatchers foundation, to Libération. This structure produces the reality TV show Welcome to the Monastery, which will be broadcast in six episodes on Friday January 12 on C8, one of the television channels of the Breton billionaire’s media empire. Even though Barry is an evangelical Protestant and Bolloré an ultraconservative Catholic, these two share – among other things – strong religious beliefs.

Valuable help from Alexia Laroche-Joubert

Welcome to the monastery is the revival of a Dutch television program, In Search of God, which the president of ZeWatchers had wanted to adapt in France for several years. Her

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