Facile Rider The cops seem to be brutalizing this man in this scene from American Vertigo, but since the film offers no commentary, we don’t know what is really happening. One fine day, French pop philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy (commonly known … Read More
Sartorial Insanity Anna takes an incriminating photo of her stalkee. If being badly dressed is a sign of insanity in Paris, then it should have been clear to everyone right from the start that something was seriously wrong with Anna … Read More
The Death of Desire Séverine and Husson recall transgressions of yesteryear. “He’s an odd bird,” a waiter says of the main character at the end of this film, and the same might be said of Belle Toujours, a famous Portuguese … Read More
Klapisch Comes Home Karin Viard as the bitch-troll-from-hell bakery owner. In his new film named after a city we all know and love, director Cédric Klapisch wants to show the world what it’s really like to live in Paris. In … Read More
Not Lookin’ for Love Didine (Géraldine Pailhas) claims to love her single lifestyle. Didine, a new film directed by Vincent Dietschy and written by Anne Le Ny (writer and director of the recent Ceux qui Restent) is a pleasingly quirky … Read More
Dysfunctional Wedding Picture The always-popular subject of a wedding doesn’t deliver this time. In a week when posters for two “blockbuster” French films were plastered all over Paris – Laurent Tirard’s Molière and Alain Berbérian’s L’Île aux Trésors (based on … Read More
Marble sarcophagus from Thessalonika (c. 180). © RMN/René-Gabriel Ojéda For its exhibition “In the Kingdom of Alexander the Great: Ancient Macedonia,” a wide-ranging of the extraordinary ancient Macedonian civilization, which … Favorite
Mathieu Mercier’s “Cage à Oiseaux.” The French city of Nantes is one of the last destinations you would consider for a safari, unless you were on the hunt for works of animal-themed art, currently the … Favorite
Publisher Gallimard’s headquarters on the Rue Sébastien Bottin in Paris’s 7th arrondissement. Photo: Henri Manuel © Photo Archives Gallimard Lovers of French literature will not want to miss the exhibition “Gallimard, 1911 – 2011: Un Siècle d’Edition” at the Bibliothèque … Read More
Design Well Done The all-white lobby contrasts with the colorful bar. Paris does old so well that it often hurts to see international design hitting the city, especially when so many classic cafés are being done over in insipid pseudo … Read More
