Ma Femme

Funny Bloody Funny

February 3, 2009 | By Nick Woods | Archive

I knew I was in for something different when I picked up the flyer for this production from a café table. It was shouting out for a review – something to do with the parental warning (not recommended for children … Read More

Les Bureaux de Dieu

Re-creating Reality

December 2, 2008 | By Paris Update | Film

All French filmmakers seem to be climbing onto the documentary bandwagon at the moment. My recent Paris Update reviews have certainly been dominated by both real documentaries (J’Irai Dormir à Hollywood and La Vie Moderne) and documentary-style movies (Entre les Murs).Claire Denis’s … Read More

La Vie Moderne

Focus on French Farmers

November 4, 2008 | By Paris Update | Film

Raymond Depardon is justly celebrated for the range of his work, covering photojournalism, photography, feature films and, with greatest success most recently, documentaries. His new documentary, ironically titled La Vie Moderne (Modern Life), focuses on a number of farms in … Read More

La Belle Personne

High-School Princess

October 7, 2008 | By Paris Update | Film

The two literary works that to my mind are the most difficult to adapt for the cinema or stage, Jane Austen’s Emma and Mme de Lafayette’s La Princesse de Clèves, are, perhaps for that very reason, the ones that seem … Read More

Le Fait du Prince

21st-Century Moraliste

October 7, 2008 | By Paris Update | Books

Novelist Amélie Nothomb is known for churning out a book without fail every year for the rentrée littéraire, wearing flamboyant hats and being extremely media-savvy. Her latest offering, Le Fait du Prince (the almost untranslatable title of which means something … Read More