We met the formidable Aïssa Maïga a few days before the explosion of the 2020 Césars ceremony, where the actress courageously risked tackling the question of the inclusion of minorities on cinema screens. As we know, the reception in the room was frosty...
Revealed by her role in Russian dolls by Cédric Klapisch, the actress already has around fifty cinema or television films to her credit. Among them : Cache by Michael Haneke, Bamako by Abderrahmane Sissako, Welcome to Marly-Gomont by Julien Rambaldi, On the Marsupilami's trail by Alain Chabat or, more recently, He already has your eyes by Lucien Jean-Baptiste, a mini-series broadcast on France 2 based on the feature film of the same name.
Author of Black is not my job, an essay on the condition of black and mixed-race women in cinema, this powerful woman is currently making her second documentary which deals with the issue of lack of water in West Africa. Daughter of a Malian journalist assassinated in 1984 for political reasons, Aïssa Maïga spent her childhood in Paris, attended the Voltaire high school (11th) and spent a lot of time in the Marais. A place that “makes you vibrate,” she says.
D’OTHER LOVERS OF THE MARAIS
A meeting with the philosopher Charles Pépin
Philosopher, writer, successful author, professor at Sciences Po and at the Lycée de la Légion d'Honneur, Charles Pépin, who bears a royal first name twice, logically lives in the former district of Charles V, i.e. -say in the Marais. For having traveled up and down (“It’s by walking…
Librairie 0fr., the temple of “cool”
The Ofr bookstore. is so open to the world that it spills onto the sidewalk. Rue Dupetit-Thouars, the books spread out on the tables on either side of the entrance give an idea of what awaits customers behind the window: ultra-trendy fashion magazines, design magazines...
Emily in Paris… and Bruno in the Marais!
In Emily in Paris, he is Luc, the kindly “nerdy” colleague of the American heroine of the Netflix series. A specimen of Parisian hedonist who explains to young Emily, newly arrived in a luxury marketing agency in the capital, the codes of the world of work in France...
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THE MOOD MARSH
The best tattoo parlors in Marais
Tattooing, an age-old practice, has long been the prerogative of convicts, dock workers, the underworld and sailors. Although it has become democratized, now affecting all profiles and concerning one in five French people, including 16% women compared to 10% men, it still remains taboo due to its definitive and transgressive nature.
Juliette Drouet actress, muse and mistress of Victor Hugo
At 14 rue Sainte-Anastase, from 1836 to 45 and at 12 from 1845 to 48, a few hundred meters from Place des Vosges, lived the muse and lover of Victor Hugo, Juliette Drouet née Julienne Gauvain.
Piccola Mia, the pizzas of the Republic
On the Place de la République, a brasserie with Italian accents has just opened, which quickly made people forget the old Pizza Pino. Welcome to Piccola Mia, the fruit of the joyful encounter between Italian chef Denny Imbroisi, pizza chef Julien Serri and mixologist Matthias Giroud who creates a creative cocktail menu.