In his proto-memoir Innocent, world-renowned actor Gérard Depardieu reflects on his life as if from afar, like a bird surveying a wide horizon, presenting fervent observations on friendship, cinema, religion, politics, and more.
From his early days in the theater and his friendships with Jean Gabin and others to his rise in the cinema, this light, vibrant, but searching book offers us an intimate entry into the thinking process of one of cinema's most mercurial and impassioned actors. Depardieu also touches upon controversial topics such as his relationship with Putin and issues that have led to skirmishes with the press and public.
At bottom, Innocent is less a memoir and more the account of a man in search of faith, the faith that is of an innocent mystic, and includes passages about Depardieu's explorations of Islam, Buddhism, and other religions.
Espousing a notion of innocence that calls us to move beyond dogma and ideology, Depardieu urges us to engage with others with respect, receptivity, and mindfulness. In these combative and divisive times, we believe this is a vital if not necessary book, one that could continue and extend dialogues about questions of faith, politics, and religion.

Innocent

Depardieu, Gérard

Arts & Photography

Contra Mundum Press

a grand-mre habitait en bout de piste Orly, elle tait dame pipi Orly o je passais mes vacances quand j'tais gamin. Dans les chiottes d'Orly - j'adorais a : " Dpart destination de Rio de Janeiro... " Putain, ils s'en vont Rio ! Et je courais voir. Je voyais toutes les villes du monde dfiler : Saigon, Addis-Abeba, Buenos Aires... Moi, j'tais dans les chiottes. Elle, elle nettoyait les chiottes, elle travaillait pour une bote qui s'appelait L'Alsacienne. Ma grand-mre se rasait, j'tais toujours fascin. Elle avait un Gillette double lame et elle se rasait. Quand je l'embrassais, je lui disais : "Tu piques encore, Mm ! - Je me raserai demain, t'en fais pas..."

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Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Vivant !

Essays & Correspondence

Olivier Orban

Lettres volées

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

LATTES

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Movies

CHERCHE MIDI

Monstre (02) (French Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

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While adapting French novelist Marguerite Duras’ (1914–1996) The Dogs of Prague for the stage, Pia Forsgren, Director of The Jewish Theatre in Stockholm, compiled an extraodinary anthology-cum-dossier on Duras. This magnificent two-volume edition consists of 40 short memoirs and portrait–essays on Duras with extensive documentation focusing on her activism for the Resistance, and for the French Communist Party as a comrade of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Jeanne Moreau (volume one); and a magnificent collection of 360 color and black-and-white photographs of Duras, from a passport photo of the little French-Vietnamese girl to her son Jean Mascolo’s wonderful portrait of an aged grande dame (volume two). The book’s paper jackets mimic worn faux-leather passport bindings; one features Duras’ ‘stamped’ initials, and the other features a specially designed ‘compass portrait’ of the author, with such points of orientation as Politics, Writing, Passion, Indo-China, Alcohol, Mother, War and Eroticism. Limited stock available.

Marguerite Duras: MD

FOUCAULT, MICHEL

Photography & Video

The Jewish Theatre Stockholm

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