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"L'Argot Sous Un Garrot" is the first documentary dedicated to the work of rapper Booba. How is this major artist considered by society? Writers, journalists, linguists and students decipher the hidden face of the greatest French popular artist. Titled after a line dropped almost twenty years ago on the song Repose En Paix, the documentary aims to revisit, not Booba's life, but something rarer, his music as such.
When, in the seventies, British folk singer Cat Stevens, later known as Yusuf Islam, achieved worldwide fame, he immediately became the spokesman for a disillusioned hippie generation.
Three beautiful creatures bathe in our eyes. Behind three windows, so many women; owners of the places, as free inside themselves as in their antics. Exhibition? No! Exposure. Besides, who's watching? And who is watched? The bodies traversed by so many mental territories, FEMALE SPECIALTIES magnifies this "Second Sex" to flush out the random, the somatic, the elusive. ... not there to be understood but to be touched! ... and hated who thinks badly!
The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo celebrate the memory of composer Kaija Saariaho with a performance of one of her last works as well as Mahler's Symphony No. 5.
Simon-Pierre Bestion celebrates the musical and cultural heritage of Paris' Notre-Dame with the La Tempête ensemble and a host of guests like Sabine Devieilhe and Olivier Latry, among others.
Mikhail Pletnev and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France embark on an ambitious musical adventure: performing all of Rachmaninov's piano concertos. They begin with concertos Nos. 1 and 2, conducted by Dima Slobodeniouk.
The Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and distinguished guests pay tribute to Michel Legrand.
A tribute to the great Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel, who died at the age of 94 on 17 June 2025. An acclaimed performer of Beethoven, he leaves behind him a musical legacy spanning more than sixty years. His performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 at Lucerne in 2005 was a highlight of the festival, conducted by Claudio Abbado, another icon of classical music.
The Stranglers perform live at Théâtre de l’Empire in Paris 1979.
In 2025, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the death of Erik Satie, father of minimalist music. His texts, brimming with humor and despair, and rare archives of his fellow travelers, tell the story of a man filled with doubt, a composer ferociously ahead of his time. His pieces continue to inspire even the most avant-garde artists.
Have you ever noticed how your personality shifts depending on the people around you ? It's as though social interactions from a kind of stage, where, once the curtain rises, each of us steps into a role. Eighteen-year-old Parisian Axel navigates this world of social performance, reshaping himself from one interaction to the next, until he no longer knows who he truly is. And today, it is Axel who takes the stage.
Radio France lives to the rhythm of its artists. Once again this year, Hip Hop Symphonique will give them the opportunity to express their talent. So it's with renewed pleasure that we welcome the personalities on the bill, whose very different backgrounds and careers are characteristic of the richness of this project. Whether, like Wallen and Sniper, they've decided to take to the stage in an exceptional way this year, or whether, like Sofiane, they're the unifying personality of the year, or, like Dosseh, the author of one of this season's most influential rap tracks, or, of course, S.Pri Noir, a confirmed talent, we're delighted to welcome them and see them succeed the prestigious list of artists from previous editions.
The Lucerne Festival Orchestra and its music director Riccardo Chailly dedicate an evening to Sergei Rachmaninoff, with Italian pianist Beatrice Rana shining in the highly virtuosic variations of the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Also on the programme is the mysterious Symphony No. 1 and The Rock, an early work that already gives a glimpse of the Russian composer's musical sensibility.
Famous for having fled the stage of the 1990 Leeds Competition because he felt he didn't deserve to be there, pianist Piotr Anderszewski provides an eccentric subject for an eccentric filmmaker, Bruno Monsaingeon, in this absorbing documentary. Following Anderszewski as he travels from Poland to Hungary by train with his grand piano in tow, the film reveals much about the musical musings of a brilliant performer and artist.
Turkish pianist Büşra Kayıkçı moves ARTE Concert's Piano Day with the beauty of her neoclassical notes.
It was in 1991, in Oakland (California) that Machine Head was born. Around Rob Flynn, a groove and thrash metal band was formed that is now one of the heavyweights of the genre. It must be said that the band has benefited from a big boost by opening for Metallica between 2008 and 2011. Machine Head made its debut in 1994 with the furious Burn My Eyes. An album that has become a classic of the genre! At the other end of their discography is Of Kingdom and Crown, their ninth album released in 2022. Machine Head's participation in festivals is rare! Luckily for us and the Clisson public, the Americans decided to make a stop at Hellfest. So we don't deny our pleasure and join the thousands of fans gathered in front of the festival's Mainstage! Filmed on June 28, 2024 at the Hellfest Open Air Festival, Clisson.
A vibrant portrait of Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul, who has become a symbol of freedom and power for all African American women.
The adventures of a journalist behind the scenes of the famous Crazy Horse night club in Paris.
Théo, the village's water tower, is crying his eyes out. To try and understand why he's sad, Robert, a nine-year-old boy, tries to talk to him but Théo takes fright and runs away. He turns up in town, where he gets taunted by the museum, some houses and the church, who don't consider him a real building. But when the town is set ablaze, they all ask for his help!
"La Gigue" (Gaumont #590) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be confused with "Danse excentrique" (Gaumont #587), "Danse serpentine" (Gaumont #588, the only extant film in the series), or "Danse fantaisiste" (Gaumont #589).
The Hellfest is 75000 festival-goers of 50 nationalities gathered during 3 days in Clisson, a medieval city of the Pays de Loire. Metal, punk, hardcore, small group for connoisseurs and mega world stars, they are all gathered at Hellfest. Thomas VDB, the inevitable troublemaker of music on France 4 embarks on the adventure of Hellfest. He will meet artists and festival-goers, while parsemant his course of fundamental questions, which he has the secret.
For his opera Garnier stage-directing debut, Simon Stone creates a sensational La Traviata, 2.0! Pretty Yende and Benjamin Bernheim triumph as Violetta and Alfredo in a production that remixes the beloved operatic masterpiece’s familiar love story for the digital age, adding social media notifications, all-nighters, texts, and parties to produce an interpretation starkly appropriate for our modern era. At the podium, Michele Mariotti conducts the Paris National Opera Orchestra.
An intimate behind the scenes documentary film, revealing the emotional and physical trials Queens of the Stone Age overcame to create Alive in the Catacombs.
For ARTE Concert’s Piano Day, producer Legowelt reimagines the soundtrack to a cult classic: Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. A cosmic experience, straddling the line between the synthetic and the organic.
Odesa and its jewish soul. Iosif Jerebker and Taisiya Zborovskaya are probably the last yiddish singers of Odesa. Accompanied by Anna Rozen on piano, they took us some decades ago, in an old jewish mansion, into this fabulous and, oh so joyful music.
Paul Kalkbrenner live at L'Olympia in Paris on October 1, 2021.
The Radio France philarmonic orchestra plays the two recurring themes in "Barry Lyndon". A bewitching travel into music-loving Kubrick's universe.
Presents archival material as well as interviews with those who were close to Jacques Brel, who died way too young, at age 49. Jacques Brel sings "Madeleine" over the opening credits of this film and immediately the audience is drawn into the intense theatricality of his performance. Left without a choice, they follow his lead, join the chanson and are left sweaty and breathless, just like Brel. Philippe Kohly, a documentary filmmaker who is renowned for profiling artists, created a fascinating portrait of the legendary singer of Flemish descent who became a master of French chanson.