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Alpha males, Harry Styles, and going mad with desire: what to watch in April

This month’s streaming slate is packed with bold, conversation-starting TV, from an expose of the toxic manosphere, to a Netflix comedy featuring a very horny Rachel Weisz. If you’re feeling nostalgic, there’s even an old classic from French New Wave filmmaker Agnès Varda. So settle in and get watching!

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Can’t stand subtitles? These 11 international masterpieces will change your mind

Subtitles are everywhere on social media, but on film some see them as an obstacle. In fact, they are an opportunity – containing the potential to unlock cinema’s universality

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Brigitte Bardot was a zeitgeist-force and France’s most sensational export

Bardot titillated the world for five decades, but the controversy and voyeurism surrounding her shouldn’t overshadow an intriguing film career

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Filmmaker Agnès Varda’s photographic legacy emerges from family archives

The Carnavalet Museum in Paris has delved into filmmaker Agnès Varda's family archives for an extensive exhibition highlighting her parallel career as a photographer, a practice she maintained fervently until her death in 2019.

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Cannes Film Festival unveils historic first for 2025: A look back at the best posters

In honour of the newly revealed 2025 edition poster - which pays tribute to Claude Lelouch, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimée - here are the best Cannes posters of the past 20 years.

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‘Too original for just one medium’: Agnès Varda’s Paris photographs go on show

Esteemed film-maker Varda began work as a photographer, capturing the postwar freedom of Paris, where a new exhibition presents her as a vital part of the city’s creative history

The Guardian - UK

Sète: the seaside town with year-round sunshine in the south of France

Surrounded by canals, a lagoon and the Mediterranean, the port town has fabulous seafood and some quirky cultural traditions

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Agnès Varda, Luca Guadagnino and Wim Wenders: why Aesop’s love affair with cinema is more than skin-deep

Aesop’s new 2024 Christmas campaign celebrates its long love affair with cinema. Laura Havlin speaks with the brand’s head of global store design Marianne Lardilleux to discover why film is inherent to its DNA

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Miu Miu’s Women’s Tales film series comes to life for Art Basel Paris

In ‘Tales & Tellers’, interdisciplinary artist Goshka Macuga brings Miu Miu’s Women’s Tales film series for Art Basel Paris to life for the public programme

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Japan’s #MeToo, ominous guinea fowls and a grandma out for revenge: top 5 picks from the Melbourne International Film Festival

Ever since I came to Melbourne as an international PhD student in film studies, the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has provided me with a sense of home among a community of like-minded cinephiles. To quote Agnès Varda, “Cinema is my home. I think I’ve always lived in it.”

The Conversation

10 Successful Female Directors Who Made A Mark In The Industry But Go Unnoticed

The contributions of several gifted female directors have shaped the history of cinema, with some of the most influential figures paving the way for up-and-coming female directors.

International Business Times UK

‘Juergen Teller finds beauty in the most mundane moment’: a photographer like no other

He transformed fashion and celebrity photography with his unglamorous, low-fi style. Now, a new exhibition in Paris celebrates a lifetime’s work, from revealing self-portraits to nudes of Vivienne Westwood

The Guardian - UK

20 greatest Venice film festival Golden Lion winners – ranked!

With the 80th instalment of the festival on the Lido around the corner, we sort through the winners of one of cinema’s most prestigious accolades

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Jane Birkin: a tremendous screen presence with a gift for creative collaboration

Birkin made a sensational impact in Blow-Up, and went on to become a classy performer for a number of major French directors – notably Godard and Agnès Varda

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Jane Birkin obituary

Singer and actor who duetted with Serge Gainsbourg on Je T’aime … Moi Non Plus in 1969 and went on to a prolific film career

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Camera ready: how Agnès Varda turned her photographs into film

The seeds of the revered director’s cinema lie in her earliest still images as a photographer, says her daughter, Rosalie

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Bottega Veneta supports new art publishing project, Magma

Supported by Bottega Veneta, the inaugural issue of Magma revives historic ‘revues d’art’ and features unpublished works and texts from the likes of Agnès Varda, Sophie Calle, Lucas Arruda and more

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Cléo from 5 to 7: Agnès Varda’s New Wave classic is cosmopolitan to the core

This elegant film follows a sad, beautiful woman around Paris as she awaits the results of a biopsy – and the result is eternally cool

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She spent 8 years and her life savings to make a 'grandma action star.' It was worth it

A once-revered filmmaker weighed down by grief wakes up inside her own unfinished screenplay in "Leonor Will Never Die," the audacious debut of Manila-based writer-director Martika Ramirez Escobar. Inspired by the macho Filipino action films of the '70s and '80s and her own beloved grandmother, she wondered: What would a…

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Review: 2 oddball comedies are back on TV after a long hiatus. Do they still work?

Once upon a time in the music business, it was normal for a band to put out two records a year. Then, as budgets went wild and groups wrote albums in the studio, they might‘ve started taking a year or two to deliver the next. Then, as schedules were filled…

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The friend zone: art, music, films and more about platonic love

From Michelangelo’s male muse to Sex Education’s best pals, we pick five passionate but ultimately chaste partnerships

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Cannes 2022 week one roundup: a return to form – and Top Gun reborn

Back in its traditional May slot, the film festival was in boisterous spirits. Week one’s wildly eclectic offerings ranged from Italian arthouse grandeur to Tom Cruise flying high

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