Even though L’Arnacoeur (Heartbreaker), the recent movie starring Romain Duris and Vanessa Paradis, struggled to get funding when it was made, it has proved to be a smash hit in France in the seven weeks since it opened, with 3.3 … Read More
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM The Musée du Quai Branly’s garden at night. © Musée du Quai Branly. Photo: Nicolas Borel This year’s Nuit des Musées, when museums all over Europe open their doors for free and stay open late, takes … Read More
Short Shorts For the Festival International des Très Courts, 72 short-short film (less than 3 minutes, not counting the titles) will be shown at the Forum des Images (Forum des Halles) on May 7, 8 and 9. Admission: €5. Favorite
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PLAYS The Irish Cultural Centre in Paris is putting on an ambitious theater program in the coming months, with four plays in English being performed for free in the lovely setting of a former convent in the fifth arrondissement. … Read More
IT’S A DRAW Works on paper are the center of attention at a number of art fairs and in many museums and galleries in Paris this week, led by the Salon du Dessin (Palais de la Bourse, through March 29). … Read More
VOYAGES OF THE MIND You will have to leave Paris to see the exhibition “Terra Bruna” (Espace Julio Gonzalez, 21 av. Paul Doumer 94110 Arcueil; tel.: 01 46 15 09 75; RER: Laplace), featuring the work of Paris-based Chilean artist … Read More
“A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house.” So goes the biblical dictum. Well, not any longer, because Jacques Audiard’s Un Prophète has just received the ultimate accolade in its own country, … Read More
CASANOVA RETURNS TO FRANCE The Bibliothèque Nationale de France has acquired the manuscript of 18th-century Venetian libertine Giacomo Casanova’s Histoire de ma Vie. An anonymous “financial company” paid €7 million to acquire it for the library. Casanova, who once hobnobbed … Read More
Océans, the new film directed by Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud, is full of incredibly beautiful images of exotic life in the depths of the world’s oceans. Unfortunately, Perrin has chosen a midway path between informative narration and no narration … Read More
NEXT DAYS The Centre Chorégraphique National du Havre will perform a new piece, “Next Days,” by choreographer Hervé Robbe on Feb. 16 as part of the Hors Saison dance festival at the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale (17, boulevard Jourdan, … Read More
