Jacques Brel and his secret home of the French Riviera

In the 60s, Jacques Brel has hidden his forbidden love with his mistress, Sylvie Rivet, in a house in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, on the edge of the Mediterranean. This is where he wrote some of his most beautiful songs like “Amsterdam”, “Matilda” and “The flat country”. The new owner, an Italian, wanted to keep the soul of the house and of the great artist who has occupied.

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Things to Come review – Isabelle Huppert is note-perfect

Due in American movie theaters in December, Things to Come gets four stars from The Guardian

Huppert’s warm, wry performance as an academic facing a crisis at home powers Mia Hansen-Løve’s intimate, intellectual film

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Mia Hansen-Løve: ‘Oh no, please don’t touch the cat!’ 

When the French director decided to make Things to Come, a film based on her mother’s life starring Isabelle Huppert, she found there are some lines you can’t cross.

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Naptown Pint: A trip to Belgium is a reminder of our roots

Before coming here, I already had a healthy love and respect for the European brewing tradition that laid the foundation for what we make and sell stateside today. Farmhouses, sours, dubbels, tripels, quads, saisons, witbiers, lambics, gueuzes… they all got their start in Europe, many of them long before the idea of America even existed.But as I sat at a table at Brouwerij De Halve Maan — brouwerij is Belgian for brewery, by the way — sipping on my personal favorite of theirs, the Straffe Hendrick Wild (available in the U.S.), it struck me how much we, as Americans, take the European brewing tradition for granted.

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Surprised about Wallonia’s CETA stand? You don’t watch enough movies

For two decades now, among foreign movie buffs, the European city most closely identified with rising anxieties surrounding globalization, immigration and economic dislocation has been the hard-scrabble Wallonian industrial city of Seraing, near Liege. Seraing is the hometown of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the celebrated Belgian movie-making brothers and repeat winners of Palmes d’Or at Cannes, who have set their remarkable explorations of economic distress in the region they know best.

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