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It's the oldest, largest contemporary art show in the world: the Venice Biennale has kicked off its 60th edition under the heading "Foreigners Everywhere". Arts editor Eve Jackson brings us the latest from the event, explaining why the artist and curator selected for the Israeli pavilion chose to keep it closed. The Biennale's artistic director,...
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Its majestic dome is a curvilinear flourish on the Paris skyline. After three years of renovations, the Grand Palais is ready to welcome visitors for the Olympic Games this summer. The site will then open its doors to the public for a host of cultural events in the spring of 2025.
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In the latest speculative fiction from British director Alex Garland, Kirsten Dunst stars as a war reporter documenting a conflict she once never thought possible: a new civil war in the United States. With the US in the midst of another divisive election year, the scenario may seem cliché, but FRANCE 24 film critic Lisa Nesselson says the film...
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She has featured in Beyoncé's music videos, choreographed a sell-out stage musical and brought underground nightclub moves to the stage of the Opéra de Paris. Now Josepha Madoki is hosting a weekend of waacking in the Musée d'Orsay's imposing entrance hall; she tells us more about this 1970s queer subculture and how she became France's...
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British-American author Salman Rushdie recounts the 2022 stabbing at a public event that left him blind in one eye in "Knife", his first memoir since the near-fatal attack, which hits English language bookstores on Tuesday. The French edition, "Le Couteau", will be released Thursday.
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Émilie Simon is a French electronic pop pioneer who emerged some 20 years ago and is known for her organic, mineral-driven compositions. On top of creating her own instruments, the award-winning artist has also signed scores for documentary films like "March of the Penguins”. She's just released "Polaris", her first full album in nearly a...
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Maya Rudolph is back with a second season of her quirky billionaire workplace comedy, "Loot", while Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr dons multiple disguises for his role in the Vietnam War spy drama "The Sympathizer". Dheepthika Laurent and Olivia Salazar-Winspear also bring you the latest news from Canneseries, including Michael Douglas's historical...
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The film "Back to Black" has been described as a never-seen-before glimpse into Amy Winehouse's rise to fame and the release of her groundbreaking album of the same name, which won five Grammys and sold 16 million copies. The pop star, who died in 2011, is played by Marisa Abela, known for her role in the banking TV drama "Industry". The movie is...
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Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" will premiere on the French Riviera this year, alongside new releases from Cannes Film Festival favourites Jacques Audiard, Yorgos Lanthimos, Sean Baker and Karim Aïnouz. Those movies will all be scrutinised by jury president Greta Gerwig. FRANCE 24's Olivia Salazar-Winspear takes us through the line-up and...
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"Bearded ladies" were once a regular feature of travelling circuses in the 19th century, a phenomenon that French director Stéphanie Di Giusto has incorporated in her latest film, "Rosalie". Film critic Lisa Nesselson tells us why this rural tale of arranged marriage managed to charm her. We also take a look at Romanian drama "Holy Week", a...
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In this edition of arts24: Forty years on from the first episode, the original Ghostbusters team reunites in "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire," blending the original cast with fresh talent. Fan favourites Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard and Mckenna Grace join veterans Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts and Dan Aykroyd. The film is directed by...
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In this edition of our arts24 music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim meets French musician Thomas de Pourquery. The saxophonist, singer, composer and actor has fronted a variety of music collectives such as "Supersonic", as well as working with the likes of Metronomy and Jeanne Added. As a saxophonist, he won France's top jazz award, the Django Reinhart...
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In the third and final part of our Rwanda series, we head into Rwanda's breathtaking countryside to discover a unique artist's residence, created by cultural changemaker Cedric Mizero. He takes Eve Jackson and the arts24 crew on a trek through a eucalyptus forest for an immersive open-air theatre experience in which 150 artists take part.
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At the campus of the French Fashion Institute, 27 design students from 13 different countries are gearing up to present their year's work before a highly influential audience. The stakes are high: these students are poised to compete with fellow graduates from the prestigious Central Saint Martins school in London. But there's no denying that...
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In the second part of arts24's Rwanda series, Eve Jackson meets a fashion designer taking the country's fashion scene to the next level. Once a model, now designer, Moses Turahirwa re-imagines traditional Rwandan forms and cultural motifs into contemporary pieces. His clients include the Ivorian footballer Didier Drogba, the Nigerian writer...
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In 1994, ethnic tensions in Rwanda spiralled, resulting in the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis. Those harrowing events were relayed on television screens around the world and filmmakers grappled with the tragedy in the years to follow. On the anniversary of that genocide, film critic Lisa Nesselson looks back at some of the movie...
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In this special programme from Kigali, Eve Jackson meets the artists rewriting Rwanda's future. Arts24 shows you just how much "the country of a thousand hills", with its population of 14 million, has transformed in the past 30 years since the genocide against the Tutsis.
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In this edition of arts24, Jennifer Ben Brahim meets nine-time Grammy-nominated musician Anoushka Shankar. She's a masterful sitarist and film composer as well as an impassioned activist, and has worked with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Patti Smith and even the Dalai Lama. Her love of composing beautiful blends of classical Indian music with...
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The award-winning author Lisa McInerney wraps up her literary trilogy with "The Rules of Revelation", a darkly comic foray into the world of drug dealers, sex workers, property developers and struggling artists. We discuss societal shifts in Ireland, as a new generation rejects the conservative, religious national identity that has characterised...
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Rumours that French pop star Aya Nakamura may sing at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics have triggered a flurry of attacks from the French far right, questioning the host country's ability to appreciate the globally acclaimed talent emerging from its neglected suburbs with large immigrant populations.
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She emerged in the mid-90s as one half of Moloko, the duo she formed with then-boyfriend Mark Brydon, creating iconic dance hits like "Sing It Back" and "The Time Is Now". After 30 years of pop, Irish artist Róisín Murphy is touring with her sixth solo album "Hit Parade" – said to be her best yet. Eve Jackson caught up with her at the end of...
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Karim Aïnouz's latest film "Firebrand" zooms in on Henry VIII's final wife, Catherine Parr, with Alicia Vikander taking on the regal role. Critic Lisa Nesselson tells us why she enjoyed Law's interpretation of the English king. Also, French actor Grégory Gadebois embodies a priest dealing with his own problematic past in "Paternel" and we learn...
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It's not every day you get given a fencing lesson by a rock legend whose career has spanned over four decades and who has sold hundreds of millions of albums. FRANCE 24's Marjorie Hache had the pleasure of crossing swords with heavy metal star Bruce Dickinson – the lead singer of Iron Maiden – to discuss his new solo album "The Mandrake...
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This week on arts24 we welcome Tom McRae, an English Francophile who gained musical recognition in the early 2000s thanks to delicate songs like "You Cut Her Hair" or "End of the World News". He's just released his new album "Étrange Hiver", in which he sings many tracks in French and invites a number of French artists to collaborate with him. We...
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From this year's new Michelin-starred restaurants and a chat with cast of new glam TV series "Palm Royale", to Banksy's defaced mural and US photographer Annie Leibovitz wielding a sword in Paris in the name of art, join Eve Jackson for a roundup of this week's culture news.
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They're among the hottest young couples in world opera. Australian soprano Nicole Car and Canadian baritone Etienne Dupuis have performed together on iconic stages in famous roles around the world. They speak to Eve Jackson about their latest show, Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra", at Paris Bastille. Nicole sings the title character's long-lost daughter...
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We discuss the success of "There's Still Tomorrow" from writer-director Paola Cortellesi, as her darkly comic début becomes a box office phenomenon in Italy. Meanwhile, "The Sweet East" sees cinematographer Sean Price Williams direct a strange journey through American subcultures. Critic Lisa Nesselson also tells us why Stéphane Brizé's new...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Andrew Sean Greer speaks to Eve Jackson about the sequel to his bestselling and celebrated novel "Less". "Less is Lost", about the hapless middle-aged gay writer Arthur Less, was a book that his agent told him not to write. Andrew talks about the American road trip that he undertook as a research project for the...
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On this week's music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim welcomes back Thomas and Mustapha from the French five-piece Bagarre. They are not just a band, a crew or a collective. What unifies them is a love of music. The members go by the nicknames Emmaï Dee, La Bête, Majnoun, Maître Clap and Mus. They're back after a four-year hiatus with the album "Le...
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From "The Regime", a satirical comedy about a despotic leader played by Kate Winslet, to all the latest from Europe's biggest TV festival, Séries Mania in northwestern France, plus reviews of "Palm Royale", a 1960s high society dramedy starring Kristen Wiig, as well as Guy Ritchie's series adaptation of his 2019 movie "The Gentlemen", critic...
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Stella McCartney, Marine Serre and Lilia Litkovska are three designers united in their belief that fashion, a notoriously polluting industry that often encourages excessive consumption, can itself be part of the solution. Through their latest ready-to-wear collections for next autumn and winter they showcase more sustainable modes of production,...
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Film critic Lisa Nesselson and presenter Eve Jackson welcome the award-winning Reunionese director Aurélia Mengin into the studio to talk about her second feature "Scarlet Blue". The movie is being shown at the International Women's Film Festival taking place just outside of Paris, in Créteil. It's one of more than a hundred feminist and...
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What exactly goes on in designers' heads? Wim Wenders claims that Yohji Yamamoto has the power to heal people without the need for a therapist's chair. Meanwhile Jeanne Friot delves into her own lesbian love story. Stéphane Rolland invites students from two Paris fashions schools on stage, as his collection questions the relationship between East...
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From an interview with the Syrian-German duo Shkoon who are breaking down geographical and language barriers through music to the fifteen artists from war-torn countries who are putting on an exhibition in Paris to show the impact of forced exile, imprisonment and conflict. Today, we're talking about artists in exile.
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Amjad Al Rasheed's directorial debut was also the first Jordanian film to be screened at the Cannes film festival last year. "Inshallah a Boy" focuses on a courageous mother and widow who's constrained by the patriarchal society she lives in. Amjad joins us in the studio to talk about making a film that addresses sensitive topics like inheritance...
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From Kim Kardashian's Balenciaga dress with the label on, to Victoria Beckham on crutches and Saint Laurent's see-through tops, fashion journalist Louis Pisano speaks to Eve Jackson about the good mix of glamour and reality at Paris Fashion Week. They also discuss South African label MaXhosa's collection and Vetements co-founder Guram Gvasalia's...
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On this week's music show we welcome Pascal Danaë, the singer of French blues rock trio Delgrès. They have just released their third studio album, which is infused with the band's Creole héritage, but more grounded in mainland France. The album's title "Promis Le Ciel" (Promised The Sky) explores themes like frustration with broken promises and...
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In this edition of arts24 we discover an extraordinary book unlike any you've probably ever read. "American Mother" is a thriller, a memoir, a mystery: the story of how Diane Foley found answers and atonement after her son James was brutally murdered by the Islamic State (IS) group. He was a freelance journalist who was held captive by the IS group...
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Filming for the fourth season of the hit Netflix series "Emily in Paris" has gotten underway in the French capital. It's a huge draw for tourists hoping to get a glimpse of the actors and perhaps more importantly, the show's famously eccentric costumes.
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Broken childhoods is the summary of this week's film show: those of young film stars, at the heart of French actress Judith Godrèche's speech at France's César awards ceremony; and that of the young heroine in the film "When it Melts", which is out in France this week. It's the directorial debut of Belgian actress Veerle Baetens, who joins Eve...
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Today on Arts 24, a return to the Dune Universe. Timothée Chalamet continues his journey as Paul Atreides, turning tragedy into revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. This time with a little help from the Fremen people of the planet Arakis. The second installment of the sci-fi franchise sees two new faces join the all-star...
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Violinist Alena Baeva is Russian, Luxembourgish Polish and Ukrainian. With her Ukrainian husband, the pianist Vadym Kholodenko, she has just released a new album entitled "Fantasy", which revisits dream-tinted music by Franz Schubert, Igor Stravinsky, Robert Schumann and Olivier Messiaen. The duo are currently touring the record and the...
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Based on a novel by Martin Amis, Jonathan Glazer's award-winning film "The Zone of Interest" follows the family of a Nazi officer who are happily living their lives right next door to Auschwitz. Film critic Lisa Nesselson confirms it's as powerful as it sounds, while FRANCE 24's Andrew Hilliar takes a look at the debate over film depictions of the...
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Lina Soualem's latest film looks back at four generations of Palestinian women, with her mother, actress Hiam Abbass, serving as a guide to their family history. "Bye Bye Tiberias" charts their displacement from the shores of the Sea of Galilee to the village of Deir Hanna, using home videos and archive footage to place this very personal story...
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French cinema has been rocked by a new wave of allegations of child rape and sexual assault targeting household names in the industry, bolstering talk of a long-awaited breakthrough for the #MeToo movement in France following a nationwide controversy over Gérard Depardieu. The latest accusations shine a stark light on the culture of impunity that...
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In a special joint edition of arts24 and The 51 Percent, we focus on whether the #MeToo movement has reached an inflection point in French cinema. The film sector in France has been shaken after actress, Judith Godrèche, accused director, Benoît Jacquot, of rape and sexual abuse during their relationship; which, she says, started when she was 14...
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Olivia Salazar-Winspear and Dheepthika Laurent look at the latest in television series this month. "In Her Car", a Ukrainian drama filmed in Kyiv during the war, is the brainchild of Ukrainian showrunner Eugen Tunick. He tells us what it was like filming in such conditions. Also: Donald Glover impresses with his millennial remake of "Mr. & Mrs....
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Judith Godrèche has been in the headlines in France after the actress accused director Benoît Jacquot of rape and sexual abuse during their relationship which, she says, started when she was 14 years old and he was 39. She also levelled accusations of sexual misconduct at filmmaker Jacques Doillon. Both men deny the accusations. French...
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The British poet Yrsa Daley-Ward tells us why her memoir "The Terrible" is not as gloomy as it sounds, as the book is released in a French translation which highlights the optimism in her writing. She's collaborated with fashion labels, filmmakers and even Beyoncé, but is probably best known for her Instagram posts, which provide bursts of digital...
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Eyes in the movie world turn to Berlin as its annual film showcase opens with a typically exciting roster, including the new release from French director André Téchiné starring Isabelle Huppert and Hafsia Herzi. Film critic Lisa Nesselson also tells us about a suitably surreal take on the master painter himself: "Daaaaaali!” is Quentin...
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British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir talks about playing Bob Marley, learning Jamaican patois and discovering what the icon was like as a person from his friends and family. We also hear from the "One Love" filmmaker Reinaldo Marcus Green and get Bob Marley's son Ziggy's take on the film.
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In this edition of our arts24 music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim chats with French rising star Jäde ahead of her debut album release. She has a voice like sugar but with a heavy dose of lyrical spice, with musical influences ranging from Lauryn Hill to Françoise Hardy. Her upcoming record "Les Malheurs de Jäde" is a reference to the French...
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She is one of the most celebrated American authors of our time: Barbara Kingsolver speaks to "arts24" about her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Demon Copperhead", which has just been published in French. The book is a reimagining of Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield" set in modern-day Appalachia, one of the poorest regions in the United States and...
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He was a surrealist icon with an iconic moustache. Salvador Dali is the subject of a new film from absurdist French director Quentin Dupieux. "Daaaaaalí!" sees the Spanish artist brought to life by five different actors, including Jonathan Cohen and Edouard Baer. We take a closer look.
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Since premiering in Venice in September, Polish director Agnieszka Holland's refugee drama "Green Border" has been showered with prizes and praise. But it sparked outrage from Poland's now former right-wing government, with politicians calling it "Nazi propaganda". FRANCE 24 film critic Lisa Nesselson explains the backlash to what she calls an...
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Michael Morpurgo is one of the world's most prolific and successful children's writers. Out of his 150 books, his most famous is perhaps the 1982 novel "War Horse", which became a global theatre phenomenon with more than 3,000 performances and a film directed by Steven Spielberg starring Benedict Cumberbatch. The storytelling supremo speaks to Eve...
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FRANCE 24's Jennifer Ben Brahim takes us through the winners and highlights from the 66th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, from Taylor Swift winning a record-breaking fourth best album prize to Miley Cyrus winning her first Grammy for her breakup smash hit "Flowers". Meanwhile, music legends Tracy Chapman and Joni Mitchell gave rare performances and...
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Gilles Perret's "La Ferme des Bertrand” is something of a rarity in French film: a tale of rural success for three generations of a family of dairy farmers. Its release next week has acquired added resonance as farmers across France rise up in protest at taxes, costs and regulations they say are killing their livelihoods.
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A former Victoria's Secret Angel and muse to the likes of Jean Paul Gaultier and Karl Lagerfeld, Laetitia Casta has successfully made the transition from modelling to cinema. FRANCE 24's Louise Dupont meets the French actress to talk about her latest film "Le Bonheur est pour demain" and being directed by her mother-in-law, Brigitte Sy.
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Haute couture represents the apotheosis of fashion. Thousands of hours of work can go into a single item, destined to be worn just once. Couture offers a window into a multi-billion-euro industry. But it's also a pillar of French soft power, which was perfectly expressed this year at Dior, Imane Ayissi, Sara Chraïbi and Simone Rocha for Jean Paul...
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After showing his work internationally, including in London, Lagos, Cape Town and New York, Nigerian-born artist Chibuike Uzoma is in Paris for his first solo exhibition at Galerie Mitterrand. Entitled "Twelve Tickets", his exhibition goes beyond popular themes of Black figuration, contemporary politics, post-colonialism and migration, to use...
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With a mother from Sweden and a father from Burkina Faso, visual artist and filmmaker Theresa Traoré Dahlberg grew up with a dual perspective. Her work as an artist often brings together her two worlds, such as her bronze sculpture "Hakili", inspired by a Burkinabé sculpture of a hare she found in Sweden's ethnographic museum. Traoré Dahlberg's...
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From striped tops, to berets, to ballerina flats, this week on French Connections we discuss which clothes are iconically French. We dive into the history of some of these sartorial splendours, as well as the French origins of the word fashion. We also look to the future and explore what the French school uniform could look like.
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One of the world's top violinists has spoken to FRANCE 24 about his passion for his art and for helping people less fortunate than himself. The Russian-born Austrian classical violinist Yury Revich was named Young Artist of the year back in 2015 and has now performed at all the great venues worldwide, from Carnegie Hall in New York to La Scala in...
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British singer-songwriter Declan McKenna broke into the music industry in 2015 as a socially conscious teen with his track "Brazil", which called out football's governing body FIFA. On February 9, he'll be releasing his third studio album "What Happened To The Beach?", inspired by his time spent writing in California. He tells us more about this...
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Since 1974, the international comics festival in the French town of Angoulême has welcomed the best of the world's illustrators. This year the top prize was awarded to Britain's Posy Simmonds, making her just the fifth woman in the festival's history to receive the honour. She spoke to Alison Sargent about her work, her connection to Paris and her...
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As stars flock to Paris for the January Fashion Weeks, journalist Louis Pisano speaks to Eve Jackson about the highlights including Zendaya and J-Lo's looks, Natalie Portman and Rihanna's love-in video at the Dior show and the Schiaparelli collection. Louis also shares his top red carpet looks for awards season. Plus we dive into Men's Fashion...
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Get the week's arts and entertainment news with Eve Jackson, including ticket price hikes at the world's most visited museum, a delightful exhibition of Art Nouveau designer Alphonse Mucha's work and a look at the life of French painter Pierre Bonnard as a new film is released about him. We also stop off in London to check out some of the 450...
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FRANCE 24 film critic Lisa Nesselson gives us her take on both the Oscar nominations and France's Lumière awards, for which she is the academy president. France has been reacting with both pride and astonishment to the success of Justine Triet's courtroom drama "Anatomy of a Fall", which got five Oscar nods despite not being submitted by France...
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"Oppenheimer" - Christopher Nolan's masterly portrait of the father of the atomic bomb -- topped the Oscars nominations Tuesday, earning an impressive 13 nods including for best picture in a nominees' list of few surprises, although the year's biggest hit, "Barbie,” came away with a haul notably less than its partner in Barbenheimer mania.
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In this edition of arts24, Eve Jackson is joined by one of the most important abstract painters of her generation. Born in Hong Kong, Fiona Rae grew up in Indonesia, then London, where she trained as an artist in the 1980s. She became part of the infamous generation known as YBAs or Young British Artists in the 1990s, being shortlisted for the...
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In this edition of our arts24 music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim chats with one half of French duo Papooz, Ulysse Cottin, as the pair drop their fourth studio album "Resonate". It's a record full of euphoric sounds and melancholic lyrics, for which they enlisted the help of American songwriter Jesse Harris and superstar producer Patrick Wimberly....
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Since founding her company in Melbourne in 2002, award-winning choreographer Lucy Guerin has become one of the artists defining contemporary Australian dance. Her minimalist work explores the body's relationship to space, rhythm and people, as well as themes like time, gravity and control. In her over 20 years as a choreographer she says she's...
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Film critic Lisa Nesselson speaks to Eve Jackson about the week's film news, including the movie that won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and the Best Film and Best Actress Golden Globes, "Poor Things". Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, it's a Victorian-era comic romp tipped for an Oscar or two. Also on the show, we look at French family...
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TV critic Dheepthika Laurent speaks to Eve Jackson about the winners at TV's night of nights, the Emmy Awards. We also make the difficult choice among January's news shows to give you our top picks of the month including the glossy World War II series with Austin Butler – "Masters of the Air”, Nicole Kidman's thriller "Expats” and a...
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Robert Robert is a DJ-turned-singer-songwriter from Quebec who has just released his second album in French, "Bienvenue Au Pays", and has begun touring both sides of the Atlantic. He popped by FRANCE 24 to introduce himself and his music. We also took a look at new releases by Lil Nas X and Ariana Grande, who aren't the kind to shy away from...
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As Taiwan gears up for key January 13 presidential elections, FRANCE 24 takes you to Taipei for the second part of our special programme on the Taiwanese cultural scene. In this episode, we focus on the island's cultural diversity. Ranked as the world's tenth most successful democracy, we look at how Taiwan's commitment to progressive...
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A small island with a complex history, Taiwan's rich culture is shaped by its many Indigenous groups, a period of Japanese rule, and of course its neighbour, China – its closest and most complicated relationship. In this first part of a special programme ahead of crucial presidential elections on January 13, we travel to Taiwan to explore how...
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Film critic Lisa Nesselson recaps the 81st Golden Globe awards, which are seen as a bellwether for the Oscars. French director Justine Triet's courtroom drama "Anatomy of a Fall" won both best screenplay and best foreign language film, while Lily Gladstone made history as the first Indigenous actor to win a Golden Globe. Meanwhile, the best film...
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In this roundup of arts and culture news, we take a look at what's coming down the cultural pipeline in 2024 – from Taylor Swift's Eras tour hitting Europe to the second instalment of sci-fi blockbuster "Dune". Meanwhile, Paris museums have almost fully bounced back from pandemic-related shutdowns, with the Musée d'Orsay seeing record...
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On the first arts24 music show of the year, Jennifer Ben Brahim chats with French composer, conductor and producer Thomas Roussel. He weaves between classical and electronic genres, and has performed in spectacular locations such as China's Forbidden City, as well as conducting an orchestra on the River Seine. 2023 saw the start of a beautiful...
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From Iran to Hollywood, in the domains of space travel, football and tech, 2023 was a year shaped by strong personalities. Some inspired us, most made us reflect, and others occasionally annoyed us. As the year comes to an end, FRANCE 24 has selected some of the personalities leaving a mark on 2023.
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German photographer Juergen Teller gives Eve Jackson a tour of his Paris show "I need to live" at the Grand Palais' massive temporary space in Paris. In the exhibition he displays around 800 works, including photos of Kim Kardashian, Victoria Beckham, Yves Saint Laurent and Vivienne Westwood, as well as more personal works of himself naked on his...
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Stella McCartney, Laurence Airline, Vaillant Studio and Litkovska are four fashion labels founded and run by women. Inspired by a desire to always strive for better, these designers propose solutions to the biggest challenges facing fashion today – everything from overconsumption and textile pollution to convoluted supply chains. All four women...
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From a celebration of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album to a South African Christmas rom-com, "Yoh! Christmas", as well as "Berlin", the spinoff of the beloved Netflix series "La Casa de Papel" or "Money Heist", TV critic Dheepthika Laurent has plenty to share for our last series show of the year.
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Two of Paris's most loved stand-up comedians speak to Eve Jackson about "the Parisians" who have served as inspiration for their comedy shows for years – from their defying bluntness and honesty to their severe rudeness, their fashion style and their unmatchable culture. Frenchman Olivier Giraud has a show in English called "How to Become a...
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Based on Priscilla Presley's 1985 memoir "Elvis and Me", Sofia Coppola's biopic "Priscilla" tells the story of the woman who married one of the world's biggest stars, from their meeting on a US air base when she was just 14, to the birth of their daughter and eventual separation. FRANCE 24 film critic Lisa Nesselson says the movie invites us to...
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As he presents his first film "Under the Sky" in Paris and prepares to launch his fashion line, Japanese superstar Yoshiki speaks to Eve Jackson about being both a heavy metal rock god selling out arenas since the 1980s with his group X Japan, as well as a classical composer and concert pianist who brings the house down in historic venues like the...
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This week on arts24's music show we welcome Martha Da'ro, a Belgian artist with Angolan heritage who is not only a musician but also an actor with roles in films like "Black", "A Girl from Mogadishu" and more recently hit French TV series "Lupin". She's just released her first studio album "Philophobia", in which she deconstructs her emotions. She...
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As his year of publicity madness draws to a close after winning the world's most prestigious prize for an English-language book in 2022 – the Booker – Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka comes to FRANCE 24 to talk about the novel that made him famous. "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" is part murder mystery, part ghost story, part political...
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Eve Jackson takes a look at the week's culture news, from "Barbie" director Greta Gerwig being named head of the Cannes Film Festival jury to exhibitions from one of Europe's most expensive painters, Scottish artist Peter Doig, at Paris's Musée d'Orsay and the most famous contemporary African painter of his generation, Congolese artist Cheri...
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After Gene Wilder in 1971 and Johnny Depp in 2005, Timothée Chalamet takes on the role of the world's most mysterious candy man in "Wonka", a sugar-sweet prequel about a young, idealistic Willy building his chocolate empire. FRANCE 24 film critic Lisa Nesselson tells us about the many cinematic incarnations of the original story by Roald Dahl. We...
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French filmmaker Mehdi Fikri has accused far-right cyberactivists and TV pundits of scuppering the launch of his police violence drama "After the Fire”, reviving talk of the influence of online rating platforms and politicised commentators in shaping movies' fortunes.
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Jennifer Ben Brahim is joined in the studio by British singer-songwriter Ala.ni for a very festive edition of arts24. Ala.ni has just released the second instalment of her two-part Christmas EP "Christmas Vol.2", a mix of original tracks and covers such as Joni Mitchell's "River". Her "dark Disney" vocals are reminiscent of Billie Holiday and Judy...
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Jennifer Ben Brahim is joined in the studio by British singer-songwriter Ala.ni for a very festive edition of arts24. Ala.ni has just released the second instalment of her two-part Christmas EP "Christmas Vol.2", a mix of original tracks and covers such as Joni Mitchell's "River". Her "dark Disney" vocals are reminiscent of Billie Holiday and Judy...
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British artist and this year's Turner Prize winner Jesse Darling talks about his prize-winning work which has been described as "delirious" and "juggling" with themes of Brexit, nationality, identity, bureaucracy, immigration and austerity. Humorous and bold, it's made up of net curtains, crowd control barriers, washing lines, bunting and ring...
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Japanese stylists have been making their mark on the Paris fashion scene since the 1980s, and continue to prove their mastery of the art of merging form and movement. Yohji Yamamoto, Yusuke Takahashi for CFCL, Maiko Kurogouchi and Satoshi Kondo for Issey Miyake – all these designers have a knack for taking the pulse of the planet, and, in turn,...
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In this edition of arts24, we focus on one of the year's most buzzed-about movies on the festival circuit. A different spin on a refugee story, warm and offbeat, "Fremont" tells the story of a young Afghan woman building a new life in California. British-Iranian filmmaker Babak Jalali speaks to Eve Jackson about his amazing first-time actress...
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Embraced as a modern holiday classic after its release in 2003, British romantic comedy "Love Actually” has since been chided for its lineup of all-heterosexual couples and sexist storylines. FRANCE 24 critic Lisa Nesselson makes an argument for the film's enduring magic, in part thanks to its incredible cast. But first, she tells us about the...
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She says she's not a dancer or a choreographer. Instead, our guest describes herself as a visual poet. Born in California, Carolyn Carlson became the reference for modern dance in France in the 1970s. Fifty years on, she's still dancing. She's created more than 100 pieces – many of them landmarks in the history of dance. With two touring shows...
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Singer-songwriter India Naia is of German-Algerian heritage and spent some of her childhood in France before moving to Florida, where she grew up listening to the "crème de la crème" of hip-hop and R'n'B. Several years ago she moved to Paris, where she began writing music. She popped by Arts 24 to tell Marjorie Hache about her debut EP "Globe"....
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Born in South Africa during apartheid, Pretty Yende grew up singing hymns with her grandmother on the way to church. This past May she dazzled Westminster Abbey at the coronation of King Charles, cementing her status as one of the world's most sought-after sopranos. Yende says her journey is proof that nothing is impossible. Back in Paris for "The...
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American choreographer and dancer Trajal Harrell chats to Dheepthika Laurent about his career retrospective at Paris' Festival d'Automne. They also talk about voguing, the focus of his seminal eight year project, Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church, and his current field of interest: Japanese dance style Butoh.
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Australian director Rolf de Heer chats to Lisa Nesselson and Dheepthika Laurent about his first feature film in a decade, "The Survival of Kindness", which was shot in the Australian outback. Also: German director Wim Wenders' Japanese-language film "Perfect Days" shines a spotlight on a toilet cleaner and Disney's latest animation "Wish" comes out...
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In this culture update, FRANCE 24's Jennifer Ben Brahim gives us a sneak peek of Beyoncé's concert film of her billion-dollar "Renaissance" tour. The film gives fans a glimpse of behind-the-scenes action and the best on-stage moments. Jennifer also tells us more about this year's Booker Prize winner – Irish author Paul Lynch – for his...
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Irish writer Paul Lynch's Booker Prize-winning fifth novel is a timely and urgent book described as powerful, claustrophobic and horribly real, capturing the social and political anxieties of our time. The book is set in a dystopian Dublin in the grips of totalitarianism. Some of the themes of "Prophet Song" are eerily similar to the riots that...
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In this edition of arts24's weekly music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim is joined by French singer-songwriter Edouard Bielle. His look and sound takes us back to the 1970s, inspired by Christophe and Etienne Daho. He's just dropped his debut EP "Loverdose", a record that delves into the addictive nature of love. We talk about Edouard's love affair with...
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Togo's International Fashion Festival (FIMO), which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary in Lomé, has organised a catwalk show in Paris to promote African fashion. Jacques Logoh, FIMO's founder, is an outspoken advocate of fashion that's designed and produced on the African continent. A recent UNESCO report says that Africa is on course to be...
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As the team behind the latest magical Disney adventure "Wish" present their film in Paris, we're talking about 100 years of the biggest media company on the planet. We learn about Walt's French ancestry and how the name Disney came from two French words – D apostrophe Isigny – which was combined into Disney. Eve Jackson interviews the team...
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In this edition of arts24, we discover the French version of the global smash hit musical seen by more than 65 million people and based on Abba's catchy tunes, which is on stage in Paris. Also on the programme, we visit the new queer, unapologetic and inclusive Paris exhibition of Austrian artists Jakob Lena Knebl & Ashley Hans Scheirl. Plus we...
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From Ridley Scott's epic about Napoleon to a film on the woman who brought the music of the tiny Cape Verde islands to a worldwide audience, join us for our film show with critic Lisa Nesselson and Ana Sofia Fonseca, the filmmaker behind the documentary "Césaria Evora — The Barefoot Diva".
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After "Alien", "Gladiator" and "Thelma and Louise", director Ridley Scott presents "Napoleon" to the French, with Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix in the title role and Vanessa Kirby as his Josephine. The filmmaker talks about his fascination with the brilliant and destructive emperor of France. From the final resting place of Napoleon, Paris's...
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Oscar-winning French actress Juliette Binoche sits down with FRANCE 24 to talk about her new film, "The Taste of Things”, which is a love letter to French gastronomy. One of France's most accoladed actresses, she talks about acting opposite her ex-partner Benoit Magimel for the first time in 30 years. Binoche also reminisces about the foodie...
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Our guest on this week's music show is jazz multi-instrumentalist Jowee Omicil, who spends much of his time between Paris, Miami and Montreal. He's about to release a new album entitled "Spiritual Healing: Bwa Kayiman Freedom Suite". The record is fully connected to his Haitian roots and represents a means to travel back in time to the slave...
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To add a little sweetness to our week, on French Connections we're exploring how French pastry is evolving. From a female French baker being named the best pastry chef in the world to the origins of the "haute patisserie" trend, to how "pâte à choux" (choux pastry) got its name, we dive into this emblem of French culture. We also take a look at...
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British filmmaker Molly Manning Walker's Cannes prize-winning debut film, "How to Have Sex”, has been released in France. Across the Channel, French actress and director Mélanie Laurent helms a new female action-comedy "Wingwomen”, out on Netflix while French filmmaker Claude Lelouch celebrates his 60 year-long career with nationwide...
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From the premiere of the final, fateful season of "The Crown”, to an Indonesian period romance "Cigarette Girl" and a South Korean criminal justice drama "Vigilante" – It's a very international month in the world of TV shows. Dheepthika Laurent speaks to Eve Jackson about the month's new releases.
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From "The Hunger Games" prequel without Jennifer Lawrence to a hit American independent movie that knocked "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" off the top of the box office this summer – "Sound of Freedom" without forgetting the British debut feature "How to Have Sex", film critic Emma Jones discusses this week's new pictures with Eve...
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Culture Editor Eve Jackson reviews Madonna's first night in Paris during her 78-date Celebration Tour. At 65 – she's still got it – she totally blew the 20 thousand fans away in Paris' Accor arena with a two and a half hour show that was an emotional journey through some of her biggest hits. She appeared on stage looking the best she has in...
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This week on Arts24, Marjorie Hache speaks to up and coming French pop artist Blowsom who has independently released two EPs and garnered millions of streams. We also catch up with American rock band Rival Sons who have released two albums this year and take a look at Queen Of Pop Madonna's opening Paris show and country royalty Dolly Parton's...
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In this edition of Arts24, Eve Jackson speaks to one of the most popular and accoladed artists in the UK and beyond. Antony Gormley's sculptures are simple and accessible and scattered around the world, from cities to seashores. His 20-metre-high "Angel of the North" has for two decades gazed down upon 33 million yearly passersby in North East...
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In this edition we meet three up-and-coming fashion designers. Victor Weinsanto studied fashion in Paris before going on to work with Jean-Paul Gaultier. He later went on to found his own exuberant label, this year inviting his drag queen friends to model his latest collection. Meanwhile, Kevin Germanier wants to break with the bad habits of the...
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Film critic Lisa Nesselson and presenter Eve Jackson talk about the week's film news, including Juliette Binoche starring in historical foodie movie "The Taste of Things", also known as "The Pot-au-Feu". They also discuss the biopic of adventurous skilled navigator Florence Arthaud, as well as "Goodbye Julia", the first ever Sudanese film to be...
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"In the Rearview”, about filmmaker Maciek Hamela's efforts to rescue civilians stranded by war, is a gripping testimony to the plight of the millions of Ukrainians displaced by Russia's invasion. As the award-winning documentary opens in French cinemas on Wednesday, its Polish director hopes it will remind viewers of what is at stake in Ukraine...
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French author Jean-Baptiste Andrea has won this year's Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, for his novel "Veiller sur elle" ("Watch Over Her"), a love story set in fascist-era Italy. He spoke to FRANCE 24's Clovis Casali about the political dimension of his work. We also take a look back at the history of the Goncourt, which is...
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France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, has been awarded to "Veiller sur elle" by Jean-Baptiste Andrea, published by Iconoclaste. The American Library in Paris's Programs Manager Emilie Biggs joins Eve Jackson to talk about the book, whose title translates as "Watch Over Her" and the significance of the prize. We also visit the new chateau...
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In this edition of our music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim meets the London-based trio Dream Wife ahead of their concert at Paris's Pitchfork music festival. They started as a university performance project, similar to "This is Spinal Tap". Three albums later, they're a fully-fledged rock band with a musical manifesto: dismantling the patriarchy and...
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Akeem Smith grew up between Brooklyn, New York and Kingston, Jamaica, where his aunt and grandmother were figures of the city's dancehall culture. Over a decade ago he began collecting family photos and videos – archival work that grew into an artistic practice as he sought to bring those archives out of the shadows and into the public view....
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She's a cinema pioneer with an incredible list of firsts: Euzhan Palcy was the first female director to win one of France's prestigious César awards, the first Black woman to have a film produced by a major Hollywood studio and the only woman to have directed Marlon Brando. Born on the French island of Martinique, Euzhan Palcy fell in love with...
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Set amid the snowy mountains of northern China, "The Breaking Ice" follows three young people over the course of several days as they form a brief and life-changing friendship. It's the latest film from Singaporean director Anthony Chen, whose first feature "Ilo Ilo" won the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 2013. Anthony Chen spoke to Alison Sargent and...
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Born in the small Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago, opera singer Jeanine De Bique says it wasn't easy studying classical music growing up. But – much like Cinderella – De Bique pursued her dreams to the Manhattan School of Music and is now starring as the fairy tale princess in a fun and feminist production at the Opéra Bastille in...
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On this week's music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim goes backstage with British dance music duo Jungle as they kick off their European tour in Paris. They've just dropped their fourth studio album "Volcano", a record erupting with timeless disco, soul and hip-hop sounds. The album is accompanied by a motion picture, with the visuals for the song "Back...
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He's a little Gallic warrior who's a big cultural phenomenon in France. The 40th volume of beloved comic Asterix was released this week. We hear from first-time Asterix author Fabcaro about what the comic books meant to him growing up, as well as fans talking about their favourite characters. We also visit a retrospective of Dutch fashion...
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"Ressusciter la rose" (Revive the rose) is an original musical tribute, a marriage of fashion, music and design, to celebrate the centenary of the Villa Noailles. This collection of Cubist-inspired buildings in the south of France was designed in the 1930s by architect Robert Mallet-Stevens. It was commissioned by an iconic couple: Charles and...
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Hailed as one of Britain's best young novelists, Isabella Hammad burst onto the scene in 2019 with "The Parisian", a sweeping historical novel inspired by the life of her grandfather. Her second novel "Enter Ghost" examines identity, art and resistance in the Palestinian Territories.
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With his small stature, impressive moustache and clever quips, Asterix has been winning hearts both in and outside of France since his creation by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo in 1959. This Thursday marks the release of the comic's 40th edition, "Asterix and the White Iris". The first written by French comic book author Fabcaro, it satirises...
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