QUand we speak of a pen, it must be that of the phoenix, because it is a rebirth that we will witness this month of August, between Castillonnès and Villeréal, with the resumption of a very good idea, which combines literature and cinema. So this is the return of the Plume Festival to the Web, three days that bring together authors debating their book with the public, while projecting the films or documentary made from these different stories to the cinema.
This event was held in Villeréal from 2008 to 2011, founded among others by the Albéric de Bideran bookseller, also a literary agent, who had thrown the glove for lack of a candidate to continue the adventure. “Then I met Thibaut Martinez-Delcayrou, journalist and author of investigation books, who admitted to me that it was thanks to this festival that he had chosen this job. Like others were still talking to me, I offered to leave and be the president. For this first year, we tried to hit hard in the guest authors. And the choice is actually noted.
Cédric Gras, crowned with the Albert-London Prize, will open this festival on Wednesday August 20. From Ukraine to Himalayas, he has traveled the world, notebook in hand, to tell the men and landscapes on the borders. His work combines literature, reports and adventure, with rare attention to detail and the breath of the story. In “The Roads of Thirst” (Stock), it goes up the thread of Central Asia rivers to answer this question: why is the Aral Sea dried up? He himself pulled a television documentary.
Women’s destinies
Pauline Guéna will take over, Thursday, August 21, with her novel “18.3 – A year at the PJ”, which inspired the very good thriller “The night of 12”, by Dominik Moll, who won seven César in 2023. “Investigators of crime or stups, Pauline Guéna followed them like their shadow,” Le Monde ” in a criticism. On the bloody scenes and in the autopsy rooms, during arrests, during searches, for spinning or beacons. She was on their heels, constantly scribbling what she saw and heard. An observation post at any other. »»
Friday August 22, change of decor around Laëtitia Colombani. His book, “The braid”, addresses the condition of women around the world, around an untouchable in India, of a Sicilian who inherits a ruined company while facing machismo, and a Canadian lawyer who has competition from her male colleagues, and learns that she is seriously ill. Women who will fight to overcome these obstacles, with the same thirst for freedom. Laëtitia Colombani herself made the adaptation of her book, currently available on Netflix.
The films will be screened at 5 p.m. at Ciné 4, in Castillonnès (price: € 7.50), each being followed by a free conference with the authors of the initial book, at 7 p.m. under the Halle de Villeréal (a cocktail will be offered by the Union of Traders).
