Rebetiko, the weed - David Prudhomme

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Summary

End of the 30's, in Greece. The military dictatorship is taking hold and freedoms are melting like snow in the sun. The rebellious spirit of Stavros, a lover of pretty girls and hashish, (and occasional salesman) has trouble complying with the laws in force. He meets his friend Markos again when he gets out of prison. Together, around a hookah, they remake the world, before going to play and dance the rebetiko all night to the sound of the bouzouki.
It took the invention and natural elegance of David Prudhomme to succeed in restoring the atmosphere of the Athens bars in the thirties, and the electric atmosphere that prevailed there. For this story, David Prudhomme draws his black and smoky graphics from the sources of Italian neo-realist cinema.
As for the popular Greek music of the pre-war period, it is in Rebetiko what Casque D'Or was to the guinguettes of the Marne riverbank: omnipresent and the essential engine of the story.

About the authors:

Even caught up in the work, from time to time raise your nose... This maxim, quoted by David Prudhomme in his book L'Oisiveraie 2, sums up quite well the philosophy of this author concerned with "refining" his work constantly. It is not by chance that he joins Pascal Rabaté, for his arrival at Futuropolis, to propose a bittersweet family chronicle, La Marie en plastique. David Prudhomme finds a malicious pleasure in all those little things that bog down life in the not very much and trap it in the nothing at all. This daily life, David Prudhomme fully appropriates it, by sketching, with a more and more refined but accurate line, the trognes of men in the street, icons of zinc, with a naturalness and an economy of means that many can envy him. "At the same time, in fact since always, I alternate a serious vein and a whimsical fiber, from classical drawing to "big noses", from expressionism to the mimicry of figures, such an idea of the big gap that drawing offers never ceases to attract me and I try to become more and more flexible! While remaining firm!"