From the Year of the Horse to 'Marty Supreme' … A Week in Paris
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🐎 On the first day of Lunar New Year – ushering in the Year of the Fire Horse – let’s dive into Paris Vertigo, a hypnotic fully AI-generated film by Paris-based director Audrey Mascina for Longchamp. “AI did not replace creativity here. It amplified it”, says the team. Horses surge across rooftops and nature overtakes the city’s Haussmann façades, surely delighting mayor Anne Hidalgo. In real life, Chinese New Year festivities are in full swing across the city, from Belleville’s lantern festival this weekend to the great 13th-arrondissement parade on 1 March, when drums, dragons and dancing lions wind through the capital’s most vibrant Chinatown.
🌙 Horses aren’t just running across AI-generated rooftops this week – they are also a recurring motif in Leonora Carrington’s fantastical universe. Tomorrow the Musée du Luxembourg opens a rare solo show on the British-Mexican painter, writer and surrealist, and famously lover to Max Ernst. Across 126 works, the exhibition traces her journeys from Lancashire to Florence, Paris, the south of France, Spain and the Second World War, New York and Mexico, where she became a cult figure alongside Frida Kahlo and Remedios Varo. Delicate, dreamlike and richly detailed, her paintings and drawings reveal hybrid creatures, metamorphosing landscapes and esoteric symbolism in a universe entirely her own.
🏓 Also opening in Paris tomorrow, the international smash hit Marty Supreme from director Josh Safdie, following last week’s Grand Rex premiere with star Timothée Chalamet in town to promote – effortlessly cool in a brown Sarah Burton for Givenchy suit, sleek sunglasses, or an ADON bomber jacket. Cinephiles should seek out the 70 mm screenings at the L’Arlequin in the Latin Quarter – the only copy in Europe – for a monumental, textured film experience. (Meanwhile, another standout US indie, Kelly Reichardt’s heist film The Mastermind, in competition at Cannes last year, also hit French screens last week.)
💘 Reopened on Valentine’s Day after more than a year of renovations, the Musée de la Vie Romantique invites visitors to step into the Romantic era through the world of Ary Scheffer, the Dutch-born painter who lived and worked here for nearly 30 years. The restored rooms showcase Scheffer’s circle – from Chopin to Delacroix – and a dedicated space honours George Sand while the inaugural exhibition highlights the skies of Paul Huet, Scheffer’s pre-impressionist contemporary, alongside 300 carefully rehung works. And Rose Bakery is back! serving tea and delicious cakes in the refreshed courtyard garden.
📸 And opening Friday, Guido Guidi. Col tempo, 1956–2024 at Le Bal, in collaboration with Rome’s MAXXI museum, part of the 70th-anniversary celebrations of the Paris–Rome sister-city partnership. Guidi, a key figure in European photography, traces ordinary landscapes and architectural icons with equal care, creating a poetic archive of place that values the banal and the monumental alike. an ongoing dialogue between seeing, time, and the photographic process, from his 1960s black-and-white experiments to his latest work.
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Thanks for reading :)
Kate x
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