
Essimi Mevegue
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Essimi Mevegue
@Essimi
Film critic,Journalist,Writer,Producer, Animateur du @cineclubafro 1 jeudi 2 à 19h30 en podcast live sur @clubhouse Member of @sfccinema, ex-@cplusafrique


“Like Water for Chocolate” by Common was released 26 years ago today.

💬 Nouveaux maires LFI: "Ce n'est pas LFI qui les a fait gagner" ➡️ Karim Bouamrane, maire PS de Saint-Ouen

Eye Haïdara Named Mistress of Ceremonies for Cannes 2026 Actress Eye Haïdara will host the opening and closing ceremonies of the 79th edition, set for May 12–23 at the Palais des Festivals. She succeeds Laurent Lafitte in the role and, we believe, is to be the first Black person — man or woman — to hold it in the position's 33-year history. Born March 7, 1983, in Bamako to Malian parents, Haïdara grew up in Paris, trained at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, and built her early career in theater. She made her film debut in 2007 in Audrey Estrougo's "Regarde-moi" and worked briefly with Jean-Luc Godard in 2008, before wider recognition came through Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache's "Le Sens de la fête," which earned her nominations for both the Prix Lumière and the César for Best Female Newcomer. She joined the Arte series "En thérapie" in 2022, appeared most recently in Joachim Lafosse's latest film, and is currently in Mélissa Godet's "La Maison des femmes." She also leads Rachel Lang's "Mata," an upcoming French-language espionage thriller in which she plays a French intelligence agent operating in Niger — distributed by Warner Bros. France and scheduled for theatrical release on April 22, 2026. As mistress of ceremonies, Haïdara will take the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière to welcome the Feature Film Jury and introduce Jury President Park Chan-wook at the opening on May 12, then return to announce the Palme d'Or and all other awards at the closing on May 23. Both ceremonies will be broadcast on France TV. #EyeHaidara #Cannes2026 #Cannes79 #MaitreDeCeremonie

JAY-Z on the tension regarding the public perception that all billionaires are bad “I got to give you the honest answer: There’s no tension. I don’t give a fuck what you say. [Laughs.] You can believe what you want to believe. And people behave the way they want to behave—it’s not a dollar amount. It’s almost like a cop-out. You get to demonize this group of folks without fixing the actual system that exists, that’s in play. [Money] may enhance it or may cause you to act in a way. But you was going to act like that anyway.”











