The recent flurry of books and exhibitions on Jean-Paul Sartre and his circle shows no sign of abating. After Carole Seymour-Jones’s revelatory biography of Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, A Dangerous Liaison, John Gerassi’s Talking with Sartre brings us the … Read More
Although the chief joy of spending time in Paris is experiencing and trying to understand French life with all its wonders and quirks, there are moments when it is impossible to escape feelings of profound cultural difference. And I must … Read More
The dearth of interesting-sounding French movies playing in Paris last week led me to take pot luck and choose to see the next French film being shown in the cinema I was passing one evening. And am I glad that … 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
The French obsession with singer/songwriter/ chain-smoking drunk/provocateur-par-excellence Serge Gainsbourg is unending nearly 20 years after his death. Now a comic-book artist and screenwriter named Joann Sfar has written and directed Gainsbourg (Vie Héroïque), a love poem to Gainsbourg that manages … Read More
I Remember Better When I Paint, a documentary about the positive impact of art and other creative therapies on people with Alzheimer’s, by Eric Ellena and Berna Huebner, will be screened in the Grand Salon (31, avenue Bosquet, 75007 Paris) … Read More
One day, Serge Bromberg, an indefatigable restorer and archivist of historic French films, had the good fortune toOne day, Serge Bromberg, an indefatigable restorer and archivist of historic French films, had the good fortune to find himself stuck in an … Read More
Film director Guy Maddin has been called “le David Lynch Canadien” by the French media. Like Lynch, Maddin mines the bizarre/bland dichotomy of a small town in his films. In Maddin’s case, it’s most often his hometown, the Canadian prairie … Read More
