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La Film Society of Lincoln Center de New York met à l’honneur jusqu’au 7 février deux actrices d’exception, mère et fille. Jane Birkin et Charlotte Gainsbourg sont pour la première fois réunies dans un hommage commun.

La rétrospective s’appelle Jane and Charlotte forever, référence à la célèbre chanson, Charlotte for ever, que Serge Gainsbourg avait écrite et chantée avec sa fille, en 1986. Mais si le prénom de Jane Birkin apparait à côté de celui de Charlotte Gainsbourg dans le titre de cette exposition, ce n’est pas pour rendre hommage à Serge, mais parce que la Film Society of Lincoln Center de New York a décidé de célébrer les deux femmes, le temps d’une rétrospective de certains de leurs films.

Mère et fille se sont donc retrouvées ce vendredi pour découvrir l’évènement, à New York. C’est la première fois qu’elles sont ainsi mises à l’honneur ensemble. Charlotte n’a pas boudé son plaisir d’être reçue aux côtés de sa maman.

« Je ne crois pas que nous ayons déjà fait quelque chose de similaire. Chaque fois que je peux être avec elle en public, c’est très agréable“, a-t-elle expliqué lors d’un échange avec les spectateurs présents après la diffusion de La pirate de Jacques Doillon.

19 films seront ainsi projetés dans cet immense Lincoln Center de New York, qui regroupe en plus de la Film Society, le Metropolitan Opéra, l’orchestre Philarmonique de New York, et le Lincoln Jazz Center Orchestra, dirigé par Wynton Marsalis. Parmi eux, le seul long métrage que Jane et Charlotte ont tourné ensemble, Le petit amour d’Agnès Varda, sorti en 1988.

Pourquoi les réunir le temps de cette rétrospective? Pour leur filiation, bien sûr, mais aussi parce que leurs choix cinématographiques sont guidés par »l’aventure et le risque” a expliqué le directeur de la programmation, Dennis Lim. Ce goût du risque, la compagne d’Yvan Attal s’en défend.

« Je n’ai pas l’impression de prendre des risques. Ce sont davantage des accidents, des choses qui arrivent au bon moment. »

Charlotte Gainsbourg multiplie les expériences familiales. Elle est un véritable soutien pour sa mère, pour qui les derniers mois n’ont pas été faciles à vivre, entre le décès de sa première fille, Kate Barry, et des problèmes de santé récurrents. Même si elle s’en amuse parfois, elle n’en a pas dit un mot hier.

Après avoir évoqué le film projeté, réalisé par son ancien époux Jacques Doillon, le premier, d’après elle, à lui avoir “demandé des choses dont peu de gens (la) pensaient capable”, elle qui jusque là « était plutôt considérée comme une actrice légère », Jane Birkin a tenu à rendre un hommage appuyé au réalisateur Jacques Rivette, décédé le même jour.

Elle avait tourné trois fois pour lui, au cours de sa carrière, notamment dans L’amour par terre, qui sera d’ailleurs diffusé lors de cette rétrospective.

« Il était assez extraordinaire » et avait « sa manière de faire les choses ». Pour elle, il était « quelqu’un qui semblait ne se soucier de rien d’autre que de filmer. J’ai eu beaucoup de chance » ajoute-t-elle.

Sur Twitter, un membre de l’assemblée a immortalisé la prise de parole de Jane Birkin, avec Charlotte Gainsbourg à ses côtés.

Tonight at @FilmLinc: Jane Birkin & Charlotte Gainsbourg! #FilmLivesHere#JaneAndCharlotteForeverpic.twitter.com/CdTEqemljt

— eugene hernandez (@eug) January 30, 2016

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Un mois après le décès de son père René Angélil, le jeune René-Charles, 16 ans, tente de redevenir l’adolescent “presque normal” qu’il est. Auprès de ses amis hockeyeurs, le jeune homme reprend goût à la vie.

En le découvrant si digne et si grand lors de l’hommage national accordé à René Angélil, il paraissait déjà très adulte. Mais René-Charles n’a que 16 ans et il a encore bien le temps de devenir un homme avec les responsabilités qui lui incombent. Sa mère, Céline Dion, a toujours tout fait pour le protéger et désormais mère célibataire, elle veut que son aîné vive comme avant.

Revenu vivre à Las Vegas, où il poursuit ses études, René-Charles Angélil semble avoir retrouvé ses marques. Pour preuve, son retour discret, mais qui en dit long, sur son compte Instagram. En milieu de semaine, l’adolescent a publié une photo de son équipe de hockey sur glace à l’occasion de leur victoire lors du President’s Day Championship. Le fils de Céline et René (à droite sur la photo), reconnaissable par ses cheveux longs et son collier de barbe naissant, affiche un sourire franc et ravi. René-Charles n’a jamais été aussi libre et heureux sur la glace, entre copains, et c’est pour lui la meilleure façon de surmonter le deuil. Grâce à ses amis, eux aussi enfants d’habitants de Las Vegas, il peut penser à l’avenir.

President's Day Champs!! #yeamayne #champions #ForCoachMatt pc: @emilyynormann

A post shared by René-Charles Angélil (@pavdarawse) on Feb 15, 2016 at 6:12pm PST

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Pendant que René-Charles redevient le charmant adolescent qu’il était avant la disparition de son père, Céline Dion, se prépare, elle, à renouer avec la scène. Le 23 février, elle sera de retour au Colosseum Palace où le public l’attend avec impatience et émotion. La star aurait repris les répétitions dès mardi dernier et ne ménage pas ses efforts. En marge de ce retour sur scène, Céline Dion est également retournée au chemin du studio d’enregistrement. Son ami producteur et ingénieur du son, Humberto Gatica, a publié sur Instagram une photo de la chanteuse et de lui dans le studio The Palms à Las Vegas. “Oui elle est de retour. Nous faisons de belles chansons ensemble. La musique, c’est l’âme de l’univers. Bravo, mon amie. J’aime ton courage” a commenté le musicien. Le nouvel album de Céline Dion est attendu pour le printemps avec des chansons composées par Jean-Jacques Goldman et Grand Corps Malade, entre autres.

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Le cancer est un fléau qui touche tout le monde, y compris les célébrités. Cancer du sein, de la prostate, de la peau… Voici comment les stars ont médiatisé et vaincu la maladie.

La médiatisation du cancer du sein de Shannen Doherty émeut le monde entier. La star est apparue très affaiblie et les cheveux rasés afin de ne pas les perdre durant la chimiothérapie. Et malheureusement, elle n’est pas la seule. Plusieurs stars sont déjà passées par là et ont choisi de médiatiser leur combat pour encourager la prévention.

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Le cancer touche de plus en plus de personnes dans le monde. Seulement, si le nombre de cancers augmente, la mortalité due à cette maladie diminue. De plus en plus de traitements sont découverts et grâce aux progrès de la science, la maladie se soigne de mieux en mieux. De plus, les campagnes de prévention augmentent et permettent ainsi de sauver de nombreuses vies. Le cancer n’épargne pas les célébrités qui, pour certaines, ont choisi de médiatiser leur maladie afin de transmettre un message. Courage et combativité sont les mots d’ordre de ces stars qui ont dû franchir de sacrées épreuves.

Cruise liner tours have become quite popular in southern China as the traditional Spring Festival holiday approaches.

In the metropolis of Shenzhen, Guangdong province, tickets have sold out for the Costa Venezia, the first ship designed by Costa Cruises, the Italian brand of Carnival Corporation built especially for Chinese guests.

With a gross tonnage of 135,500 tonnes, the 323-meter-long Costa Venezia offers 2,116 cabins for a total of 5,260 passengers.

The vessel will depart from the Shekou cruise liner homeport in Shenzhen. Since opening in 2016, the port has welcomed 17 cruise liners from around the world and received about 1.35 million tourists.

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A parade to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year was held in the city center of Dubai on Friday. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice-president and prime minister of the UAE and Ni Jian, Chinese Ambassador to the UAE, along with a number of government officials and royals in the UAE were present at the event. At the same time, tens of thousands of people, including overseas Chinese, visitors and locals attended the gathering and shared the joyously festive atmosphere for the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration.

Li Xuhang, consul general of China in Dubai, delivered a speech and said that the annual parade has become the grandest event to celebrate the Chinese Spring Festival for overseas Chinese in Dubai. He added the parade also can boost people-to-people exchanges between China and the UAE.

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It is worth noting that 2019 was a momentous year as it marked the 35th anniversary of bilateral relations between China and the UAE.

BARCELONA – Chinese forward Wu Lei, who joined Espanyol a year ago, said here Thursday that he was in the best league in the world and enjoyed it.

Telling a press conference held by the Barcelona-based team, Wu said, “It was a good decision to join Espanyol. I have improved a lot and I have enjoyed this year.”

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Espanyol have qualified for the knockout stage of the Europa League, but they are currently at bottom of the table with just 11 points from their first 19 games of the season.

Wu expressed his confidence that his side could avoid relegation.

Former Alaves boss Abelardo Fernandez was appointed as their third coach of the campaign at the end of last year and gave fans and players hope when he led them to a 2-2 draw at home to league leaders, FC Barcelona in his first game in charge.

“He has given us a lot of confidence and we have to be positive. The draw in our last game has given us a lot of energy,” said Wu.

“All I am thinking is that we can save ourselves and we are all confident that we can do that. I am not thinking about anything else,” insisted the forward.

Wu also welcomed Espanyol’s record signing, Raul de Tomas to the club and said that he did not mind if the arrival of the former Rayo Vallecano, Benfica and Real Madrid forward meant he had to settle for a place on the subs’ bench in forthcoming games.

Ahead of Spring Festival in 2019, President Xi Jinping visited deliverymen working at a hutong (narrow alleyway) in Qianmen, Beijing, paying tribute to them for their hard work.

Among them were Qi Nannan and Liu Kuo. One year has passed. What impressions the encounter has left on the two? Let’s listen to what they said. 

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Du Shaoping, who killed and buried a man under a school playground 17 years ago in Hunan province, was executed on Monday after China’s top court approved his death penalty.

Du was convicted of multiple crimes, including intentional homicide, intentional injury, disturbance of public order and illegal detention, and sentenced to death by the Huaihua Intermediate People’s Court on Dec 18, 2019, after he was identified as the killer of Deng Shiping and as someone involved in burying him under the running track of Xinhuang No 1 Middle School in 2003.

Du appealed to the Hunan High People’s Court but the appeal was rejected and the original ruling was upheld by the high court on Jan 10.

Under Chinese Criminal Procedure Law, a death sentence given by lower courts should be submitted to the Supreme People’s Court, the national top court, for a review, and the execution will be done only when the top court approves.

The Huaihua Intermediate People’s Court issued a statement via its official website saying Du had been executed on Monday after the top court approved the death sentence on Thursday.

Before the execution, the intermediate people’s court arranged for Du to meet his family members to fully protect his legitimate rights, the statement added.

According to the original ruling, Du hired Luo Guangzhong to manage the running track construction of the school after undertaking the building project in December 2001. Du was angry with Deng, who was in charge of the construction quality at the time.

On Jan 22, 2003, Du, with Luo, killed Deng in an office of the construction command, and then the two defendants buried Deng in a pit of the playground that night. The next day, Luo ordered those driving forklifts to fill the pit up.

Luo was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for intentional homicide on Dec 18 last year, and his conviction and sentence were both approved by the high people’s court on Jan 10.

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It’s hard not to be beguiled by the rustic charm of the ski-centric French village of Les Rousses.

Situated in the Jura Mountains near the border with Switzerland, the village’s Les Tuffes Nordic Center hosted biathlon, ski jumping and Nordic combined during the Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games, which concluded on Sunday.

The enthusiasm with which the locals engaged with the competitions made it an extra special venue.

As cross-country skiers powered over the biathlon course, people rang bells and roared “Allez!” (Go!), while cries of “Oui!” (Yes!) rang out as athletes hit their targets in the shooting section.

“The crowds pushed us forward. Without doubt we could use it to gain some seconds in skiing,” said French biathlete Jeanne Richard, who along with Mathieu Garcia won gold in the single mixed relay race.

“I’m not surprised because I know people here really appreciate biathlon and all sports. They are here to support all athletes, not only the French athletes,” said Marie-Laure Brunet, a retired French biathlete who won a bronze medal in the women’s pursuit at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

All the biathlon events at Les Tuffes were free for the public to attend.

“It’s very important for these young athletes to live the Olympic experience, to be supported by everybody. With free entrance, it’s easier to attract crowds. It’s a good thing for the young, for schools, for the crowds and for families,” Brunet added.

Around 3,500 local school kids were invited to watch Tuesday’s men’s and women’s sprint races.”We are quite happy to be here,” one kid said.

Chinese competitor Shi Yuanyuan was pleasantly surprised when, after finishing an interview, he was surrounded by kids asking for his autograph.

“It’s the first time for our athletes to be interviewed and be surrounded by autograph hunters like that,” said Jiang Yang, an official in charge of the Chinese biathlon team.

“The atmosphere felt pretty good here. Kids would shout ‘hurray’ as athletes hit the target. It felt like being at a World Cup meet.”

It wasn’t just the Chinese team which was feeling the love.

“Everything about the vibe here is really positive. We are supposed to leave tomorrow, but we don’t want to leave,” said Russian competitor Denis Irodov.

“It’s almost a perfect place for biathlon, especially during the Youth Olympics. I really hope this venue will have many more competitions in the coming years.”

Tony Estanguet, president of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics’ organizing committee, hailed the cross-border cooperation between France and Switzerland.

“This is the first time such an Olympic event has been held by two countries working together. There has been a fantastic collaboration between the two countries and the two organizing committees,” he told Xinhua.

“The result is just amazing. The crowds are very excited. The athletes are very happy.”

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Services, retail intersect on new platforms, boost O2O model and consumer experience

Zhang Chenlin, 31, a bank employee in Beijing, prefers to use mobile apps to buy, well, almost everything these days－lunch, dinner, groceries, flowers, fruits, cosmetics, medicine, magazines, accessories, household stuff, you name it.

Particularly on days when she is unwilling to dine out with colleagues on work days, the apps come to her rescue time and again. In about 20 minutes after placing an online order for lunch, a deliveryman of Ele.me, a third-party online food delivery platform, materializes with Sichuan spicy diced chicken, Mapo spicy bean curd and a bowl of rice.

“With a simple tap on my mobile phone, I can also order daily necessities like towels, tissues, shampoo as well as medicine,” Zhang said. “I don’t need to go to supermarket after work, and these commodities are delivered to my home or office within half-an-hour. This is really very convenient.”

This potentially economy-boosting online-to-offline or O2O business model is made possible by new online platforms of internet giants that bridge consumers and neighborhood businesses like never before.

Company executives of Ele.me and Koubei, a local services company of Chinese tech titan Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, said they are committed to providing digital solutions for local merchants to enhance the latter’s operational efficiencies.

Industry insiders said that on-demand food delivery services are expanding beyond traditional catering to include supermarkets, fresh fruits and vegetables, and flowers and plants.

Wang Lei, president of Alibaba’s local services company, said they are beefing up resources to drive forward the digitalization plan and upgrade the local services market.

These digitalized services will include site selection of restaurants, supply chain, reservations, queuing, ordering, instant delivery, online payments and service ratings based on evaluation or user reviews.

“The online penetration rate of food delivery and other local services in the country’s catering industry is less than 15 percent,” said Wang, while noting they will empower catering merchants to digitalize their operations and help these vendors improve online offerings, such as online membership management, smart ordering and discount bookings during off-peak hours.

Alibaba formed its local services company in 2018 by merging food delivery platform Ele.me and lifestyle services firm Koubei. The move intensified a battle with rival Meituan Dianping, which is backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd, in China’s fiercely competitive on-demand services market.

The Ele.me-Koubei combine will seek to expand beyond the catering industry and redefine urban life, improving local services so as to make living more convenient for city dwellers.

It is expected to cover a full range of local services and businesses, including supermarkets, beauty salons, KTVs, as well as leisure and entertainment. Its services will likely be used by an estimated 800 million urban residents, according to the company.

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In April 2018, Alibaba announced it had acquired Ele.me. The e-commerce giant aims to enhance the last-mile delivery capacity crucial to its New Retail strategy.

New Retail refers to the integration, or interlinking, of online and offline shopping using modern technologies, data and customer engagement techniques. The term was coined in 2016 by Alibaba’s charismatic founder Jack Ma. In his words, New Retail is making the distinction between physical and virtual commerce obsolete. It indicates a combination of the best in physical and online retail.

In line with the New Retail era, the country’s catering sector is becoming increasingly technology-empowered. The market size of China’s online food delivery market is expected to reach 603.5 billion yuan ($87.7 billion) in 2019, up almost 31 percent year-on-year, according to mobile internet big data monitoring platform Trustdata.

Data from the Trustdata said users aged 30 and below are the major force in the online food delivery market, taking up more than 48-percent share.

The market research company iiMedia Research said China’s third-tier cities and below have become a new growth point for the food delivery industry. In the first half of 2019, the proportion of new customers in the food delivery industry in the third-tier cities and below exceeded 44 percent.

“The number of orders in the online food delivery market maintained a rapid growth in the past four years, with the figure surging to 10.96 billion in 2018 from 1.7 billion in 2015,” said Yang Xu, a life and services analyst at consultancy Analysys. Yang said the booming O2O segment has not only focused on food delivery but also expanded their business scope, spanning supermarkets, fresh products, flowers and medicine to lure consumers. “The digitalized and intelligent solutions that empower merchants and help improve their services will also be a development direction in the online catering industry.”

Meituan Dianping, another food delivery and lifestyle services platform, is also operating Meituan Instashopping, a non-food delivery business, to connect local retailers and consumers.

The on-demand grocery delivery services promise 30-minute delivery, including for flowers, medicine and even vegetables. They also help merchants to digitalize their inventories of fresh products.

Wang Puzhong, senior vice-president of Meituan Dianping, said the online food delivery industry is an intersection of some segments of the services sector and the retail industry. “The online penetration rate of fast-moving consumer goods, medicine and flowers is very low, hovering around 3 percent in the past five years.”

Wang said Meituan Instashopping aims to empower the traditional catering merchants by offering operational, distribution and technology support, upgrading digital solutions and helping these vendors improve their online offerings.

The company announced its total revenue surged 44 percent year-on-year to 27.5 billion yuan in the third quarter of 2019, buoyed by the growth in key business areas such as food delivery, in-store purchases, hotels and travel, while its net profit reached 1.9 billion yuan.

Revenue from its core food delivery business increased by 39.4 percent year-on-year to 15.6 billion yuan in the same quarter, and the in-store, hotel, and travel business contributed a revenue of 6.2 billion yuan, a rise of 39.3 percent compared with the same period of 2018.

According to Beijing-based market consultancy Analysys, Ele.me and Star. Ele.me, which was formally known as Baidu Waimai until Ele.me acquired it, accounted for 43.9 percent of share in China’s food delivery market in the third quarter, while its arch rival Meituan Dianping accounted for 53-percent market share.

In addition, Dada Group, a platform for local on-demand retail and delivery, has cooperated with most of the leading retailers such as Walmart and Carrefour, and more than 100,000 offline stores, to provide more convenient and upgraded shopping experiences. Its services cover goods of all varieties, ranging from fresh fruits and vegetables, groceries to pharmaceutical products. Consumers from more than 600 cities and counties in China are said to be its beneficiaries.

The company has launched omni-channel fulfillment solutions for supermarkets, providing the latter with middle platform systems, smart logistics systems and customized solutions. They integrate warehousing, picking and distribution, and significantly improve supermarkets’ working efficiency. They also guarantee one-hour delivery of omni-channel orders.

“Dada Group is rooted in supermarket O2O and grocery delivery, and has proposed the best solution — omni-channel business aggregation platform and fulfillment system,” said He Huijian, its vice-president.”The core of retail is efficiency and shopping experience. And it is the mission of Dada Group to help retailers to develop e-commerce efficiently and provide consumers with the best shopping experience.”

After covering all first-and second-tier cities and helping retailers to achieve high-speed online sales growth, it will ramp up efforts to expand its presence into more lower-tier cities, Dada Group said.

Chen Liteng, an analyst from the China E-Commerce Research Center, said competition in the on-demand food delivery market has led to the construction of an ecosystem and expansion of service scenarios.

“How to make profits and maintain the stable development became the core of issues for the local life service platforms,” Chen said, adding online caterers need to use AI-powered technologies to ensure efficiency and put the quality of services first.