CINEMA
The film has an appointment with history. First with the Poland in 1940, taking grip by Hitler and Stalin. "Katyn", Andrzej Wajda film, is the story scrupulous of the murder of Polish officers by the secret police Soviet, the NKVD. It is also a tribute to the resistance to barbarism and lies, embodied by three heroic women. Nearly forty years later, in 1977, a host of talk show "has been", David Frost, proposed a debate at Nixon. The former President of the United States resigned three years earlier after Watergate. He is confident. But he is trapped and confesses his lies. "Frost-Nixon: the moment of truth", Ron Howard, is a Shakespearean docu-fiction.

A SEASON IN FAVART
In his third year at the head of the Opéra-Comique, Jérôme Deschamps confirms its policy of defence and illustration of the directory was the glory of the scene. Example: the return of three emblematic titles, "Fortunio" by André Messager, "Mignon" from Ambroise Thomas, and "Pelléas et Mélisande", Claude Debussy, staged, in the order, by Denis Podalydès, Benoit Jean-Louis and Stéphane Braunschweig. The conductors Louis Langrée, François-Xavier Roth and John Eliot Gardiner.
After the triumph of "Dido and Aeneas", William Christie prompt the delicious "Fairy Queen", Purcell. Emmanuel Krivine will be in the pit to "Béatrice et Bénédict", Berlioz (directed by Dan Jemmett), beginning of an important collaboration with the Palazzo Bru Zane, Centre of French romantic music in Venice. As "The jealous lover", of André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry, which established Jérémie Rhorer at the head of his circle of harmony, it will be first given to Versailles for the reopening of the Royal Opera in great days devoted to the composer, so charming.
The room Favart don't forget that it was in the past, an intense outbreak of creations. Bet that, set to music by the fast-paced Georges Aperghis, "The bowling", based on the play of an another Georges Courteline, control of the House, will not lead not melancholy.
Numerous events will anchor each production, seminars, concert, recital (Felicity Lott, Anna Caterina Antonacci...) and operas in concert ("Cinderella" of Pauline Viardot, "Zémire et Azor" of Grétry, "Sancho Panza Governor on the island of Barataria", of Philidor...).
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PERFORMANCES
Two great actors, Michel Galabru and Philippe Caubère, resurrect "Jules and Marcel" at the Théâtre Hébertot in Paris (01.43.87.23.23) they play correspondence between Raimu and Pagnol, in an adaptation of Pierre Tré-Hardy written for the Festival of the correspondence of Grignan. A brief Provençal meeting (1: 10 a.m.) to sunset (at 19 hours). Mireille Perrier embodies Meanwhile only directed to the modern Lavoir parisien, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 19: 15 (01.42.52.09.14), the Russian journalist murdered in Moscow in 2006, Anna Politkovskaya, in a show of Stephano Massini "Not rééducable", directed by Michèle Guigon.
Side music, large Symphony program this weekend in Paris. This evening, to Pleyel (01.42.56.13.13), Radio France Orchestra led by Myu Wung Chung (with Mischa Maisky on cello) gives a Berlioz, Lalo and Mussorgsky ("tables of exposure") program. Saturday night, Christian Zacharias, piano and the leadership of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, interpreted the 21 concerto and Symphony 31 of Mozart at the theatre des Champs-Elysées (01.49.52.50.50). And Sunday at 4 p.m., the Sinfonierochester Berlin Rundfunk, led by Marek Janowski, with the pianist Radu Lupu, a program choice Beethoven: concerto no. 4 and the pastoral Symphony (No. 6) to Pleyel. Regions, go to Dijon, in the Auditorium (03.80.60.44.44), with Emmanuelle Haim and his concert of Astrée for "The Rezurresione" of Handel.
The rock and the song are the feast this weekend: the voice of the folk or NAFTA Diane is Lyon tonight, Strasbourg Sunday and Paris Monday (Bataclan). Thomas Dutronc is La Rochelle tonight and Marmande Sunday. Bob Dylan with or without voice is in Paris at the Palais des Congrès Tuesday and Wednesday. And trendy jazz pianist Brad Meldhau at le Mans this evening.
EXHIBITIONS
2008 was the year Vauban. will 2009 be the year Mansart The Museum Carnavalet (), in Paris, organises an exhibition devoted to Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646-1708) the greatest French architect for some June 28: "building for the King". Mansart did much for the glory of Louis XIV. Versailles and its annexes, Chapel, les Ecuries, the Orangery, the Grand Trianon, the castles of Clagny and Marly, the Church of the Invalides, Vendôme and WINS seats, it is him.
At Versailles, go to the Castle (01.30.83.78.00) with the "splendour of court and Royal ceremonies the Costume of court in Europe 1650-1800". An expo in 200 pieces (costumes, jewels, iconography) which shows the major influence of the France on Royal fashion of the time.
The city of children, place worship in the city of science and industry () at La Villette, expands. After the "small" 2 to 7 years, the "major" from 5 to 12 years will be at the party: a land of adventure more of 2.000 m2 in 6 thematic areas ("body", "communicate", "water games", "the garden", "plant" and "TV studio") them for now.
In the region, the Museum of the Chartreuse de Douai (03.27.71.38.80) offers up to mid-June the beautiful exhibition "Henri Martin." "Of dreams on a daily basis" (1860-1943). The opportunity to tour of the underestimated work of distinct artist, flirting with symbolism, the néo-impressionnisme and pointillism, some 100 paintings and graphic works.