4 posts tagged “french”

This video, from the Élysée, was taken yesterday when the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the First Lady arrived in London to meet HM Queen Elizabeth II and HH the Duke of Edinburgh. I wrote in a comment on Timothy’s Vox blog, after reading an article about it, that Mme Sarkozy did not know where to stand and tried to follow her husband and the Queen on the inspection. I was wrong: looking at this video, the First Lady knew exactly where to go and accompanied Prince Philip in her meet-and-greet. The Jacqueline Kennedy comparisons aren’t invalid.
   And it seems the newly hyphenated Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is on her way to being the most photographed woman of 2008: her image sells political, fashion (she’s wearing Dior by John Galliano) and gossip media.

I have learned that the posh French do not say, ‘Bon appetit.’ I will keep saying it, since I am not a posh Frenchman. But do remember this next time you dine with those aristocratic types, such as my friend Count de Money and those of that ilk.

Two videos here that are very worth sharing, especially since I am the Sacha Distel of the south. Apart from the being dead thing. And smashing a Porsche during a sex act in the car.
   The first is Sacha and ex-girlfriend Brigitte Bardot, before the world figured out she was a right-wing freak. Sacha figured out she wasn’t the girl for him when he found her in bed with another bloke. Not a good look. But, time heals, and the two of them perform that famous song, ‘Le soleil de ma vie’.
   But the trade mark song is ‘La belle vie’, which Sacha wrote in the 1960s. The English lyrics, ‘The Good Life’, came before the French ones and were popularized by Tony Bennett. But here’s the dude who wrote the song singing it.
   I remember during the (French) heat wave in 2003, Sacha had a bit of a revival, including a local version of This Is Your Life. Every channel I turned to, there he was, singing ‘La belle vie’. It was a bit weird, since it was my own trade mark song of sorts around that time. Hearing the master do it, however, makes me look like an American Idol loser.
   Enjoy these two, in a purer, pre-Spice Girls time.

 
We’ve run an article on the Lucire website about a Chanel campaign directed by Bettina Rheims, in the spirit of Jean-Luc Godard’s Le Mépris, a Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) film from 1963 starring Brigitte Bardot. I still rank Pierre de Terre as the best of the genre, with his Lavabo en Face, Le Jambon Triste and the classic Ne Touchez Pas Le Poof. (For those who do not know, M. de Terre was a fictional French avant-garde director played by Benny Hill and yes, this entry was a pisstake.)