Know your Camembert from your Roquefort? The choice of cheese can be overwhelming, but if you let your senses and palate guide you, you’ll become a ‘big cheese’ in no time, as Stacie Overton Johnson found out on a recent tour of France.
A History of Big Hair: Catherine Deneuve, Cindy Crawford, and More – Vogue
As bouffant-lovers Baby Jane Holzer and Catherine Deneuve celebrate birthdays this weekend, a look back at women who wouldn’t be tamed.
Source: A History of Big Hair: Catherine Deneuve, Cindy Crawford, and More – Vogue
Robert Doisneau, the image of the poet – Cross
While a book and an exhibition devoted to the photographer, Arte offers a documentary in which her granddaughter Clementine Deroudille paints a tender of his grandfather portrait.
The photographer Robert Doisneau everyone knows Kiss of the town hall , its most iconic photograph, peacekeeper snapped up by the menacing mouth cabaret Hell, his melancholy portrait of Mademoiselle Anita , his school or distracted shooters bells, its maw of Parigots gleaned in bars with his friends Jacques Prévert or Robert Giraud.
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When France goes Brit-mad: Dinard Film Festival – Flux Magazine
The Dinard Festival of British Film may not be France’s most prestigious movie destination, but it’s a great place to watch some indie films and rub shoulders with up-and-coming British acting talent.
Source: When France goes Brit-mad: Dinard Film Festival – Flux Magazine
‘Moonlight’: Is This the Year’s Best Movie? – The New York Times
Our critic A.O. Scott says this film about a young black man’s coming of age is both a disarmingly personal film and an urgent social document.
Source: ‘Moonlight’: Is This the Year’s Best Movie? – The New York Times


