If you had to choose one adjective which least suited Béatrice Dalle, you might do worse than “demure”. The actress, who celebrated her 50th birthday recently, may have become an object of desire to rival Bardot or Monroe, but her behaviour has, on occasions, been more reminiscent of a female Oliver Reed (a remarkable achievement, given that Dalle is not a drinker). The woman who has been described as “a walking grenade,” a “one-woman Vietnam”, “the patron saint of the abyss” and “Joan of Arc: the suicide bomber version” has agreed to meet me in the small village of Grignan, just outside Montélimar, where she is playing the lead in Lucrèce Borgia. Given that, in this role, she only kills seven guys nightly, straddling the corpses with an urgency more suggestive of lust than remorse, you might say that she is mellowing.
Actress Jean Seberg, FBI’s COINTELPRO, and the film ‘Kill!’
The scene was tragic.A casket covered with lilies, daisies, and yellow roses. A stunned and muted crowd of hundreds gathered at Paris’s Montparnasse Cemetery, Friday, September 14, 1979.The mourners were there to bid farewell to Jean Seberg, internationally renowned actress, activist, and reluctant celebrity. Among those present were her young son Diego and his father (Jean’s former husband), notable French author and diplomat Romain Gary.Parisian police had declared her death a suicide, the result of alcohol and barbiturate poisoning. But the coroner was more cautious, at first issuing a report of “probable suicide” with “unresolved questions,” and then the following year filing charges for “persons unknown” who may have been involved in her death.
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IFI announces programme for the 2016 IFI French Film Festival
The programme for the 2016 IFI French Film Festival has been announced. Ireland’s largest celebration of French film, now in its 17th year, will run for 12 days at the Irish Film Institute (IFI) from Wednesday, November 16th to Sunday, November 27th. This year’s programme features 23 Irish premieres, will be packed with special guests including Gustave Kervern, Benoît Delépine, Dominik Moll and Gilles Marchand, alongside a focus on French classics, including a 60th anniversary screening of Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman.Highlights of this year’s festival include the opening film, Justine Triet’s In Bed With Victoria, François Ozon’s period drama Frantz, The Unknown Girl from two-time Palme d’or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, and 2016 Cannes Jury Prize winner It’s Only the End of the World, directed by Xavier Dolan.
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Jain Is A Third Culture Kid Ready To Make Her Mark | The FADER
When did you start making music?When I was nine, my family and I moved to Dubai. There I studied an Arabic percussion instrument called the darbuka or the tabla. Percussion was my first introduction to music. Then from the age of 14 to 17 years old I lived in the Congo in a small town called Pointe Noire; that’s where I made my first songs. After my graduation in Abu Dhabi, I moved to Paris, to attend art school…When I was in the south of France, in a town called Pau, I began making music by taking drum lessons for two years, and Arabic lessons while I was in Dubai. That’s where it all started, really. With rhythm.
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Ro’s Recipes: House Party in Bruges & Mariners’ Mussels | Women’s Voices For Change
Three weeks later Jean-Luc called. He was visiting London. Over many meals of moules, Chinese, Indian, French, Turkish and English food, we developed a warmhearted friendship. Out of the sad fire of misled expectations and blind hope evolved happy stories.
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Agnes Obel: ‘It’s called a Trautonium – and it can electrocute people!’ | Music | The Guardian
Agnes Obel’s first two albums, 2010’s Philharmonics and 2013’s Aventine, were darkly intimate affairs, the work of a rich, characterful singer at her piano at night. They made her a top five artist in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark, and well-known in her adopted hometown of Berlin, where she’s lived and worked for 10 years. “I have genuinely no idea,” she says almost apologetically, when asked to explain their success.
Her latest music layers 250 tracks on top of each other, and duetting with a male cyborg version of herself. Where does it all come from?
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