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Film show: France sends a delicious foodie movie to the Oscars

Film critic Lisa Nesselson and presenter Eve Jackson talk about the week's film news, including Juliette Binoche starring in historical foodie movie "The Taste of Things", also known as "The Pot-au-Feu". They also discuss the biopic of adventurous skilled navigator Florence Arthaud, as well as "Goodbye Julia", the first ever…

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France's top book prize goes to epic love story set in Italy

France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, has been awarded to "Veiller sur elle" by Jean-Baptiste Andrea, published by Iconoclaste. The American Library in Paris's Programs Manager Emilie Biggs joins Eve Jackson to talk about the book, whose title translates as "Watch Over Her" and the significance of the prize. We…

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British director Ken Loach's final film is a call for greater compassion for refugees

From "Game of Thrones" star Emilia Clarke as a mum-to-be of a baby grown in an artificial womb in "The Pod Generation", to compassionate refugee drama "The Old Oak" from veteran socialist filmmaker Ken Loach, film critic Lisa Nesselson talks to Eve Jackson about the week's film news.

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Director Terry Gilliam on his career: 'I got away with murder!'

For more than 50 years he has been conjuring up strange and fantastical worlds. From the very beginning of his work with Monty Python, he has rarely played by the rules and has shunned the Hollywood system, yet serious actors like Sean Connery, Robin Williams and Johnny Depp queue up…

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Joyce Maynard: 'I wouldn't recommend being published when you're a teenager'

Our guest is an acclaimed writer with a career spanning more than fifty years. In that time she's published hundreds of essays as well as twenty books, including the memoir "At Home in the World" – where she spoke of her relationship with "The Catcher in the Rye" author JD…

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Writer-director Rebecca Miller on her surreal romcom 'She Came to Me'

She's written and directed six feature films, including "Maggie's Plan" and "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee", as well as a documentary about her Nobel Prize-winning playwright father, "Arthur Miller: Writer" in 2017. Artist, author, writer and director Rebecca Miller talks to arts24's Eve Jackson about her new film, the…

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Musician Benjamin Clementine: ‘Performing in prestigious venues and on the Paris metro is the same'

From busking in the Paris metro to winning the prestigious Mercury prize and becoming the face of French brand Givenchy, British composer and singer-songwriter Benjamin Clementine has had quite a decade. He stopped by the arts24 studio during his European tour to talk to Eve Jackson about his third album…

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Film show: A couple's story under South Africa's racial classification system

In arts24's weekly film show, critic Lisa Nesselson and Eve Jackson are joined by award-winning French documentary maker Yolande Zauberman to talk about her 1987 film "Classified People". It showed the realities of living under apartheid in South Africa through the eyes of a couple considered inter-racial under the country's…

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Encore! becomes arts24 with rising music stars on the new set

What’s in a name? For the first episode of arts24, music critic Marjorie Hache and presenter Eve Jackson are talking titles, toxic relationships, performing in one of France’s largest prisons and karaoke at holiday camps with Irish singer-songwriter CMAT and French group Howlin’ Jaws.

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Paz Errázuriz: The female photographer who defied the Pinochet regime

On the week marking 50 years since the bloody military coup that brought Pinochet to power in Chile, we meet the woman who used her camera to defy the dictatorship. It was dangerous for anyone to capture life in Chile under Pinochet – let alone a woman determined to show…

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Hip hop at 50: How France became the second largest rap market in the world (part 4)

To mark 50 years of hip hop, FRANCE 24’s culture team has recorded three special shows in New York – the birthplace of the culture. In part four of the series we’re in Paris, because France is the second largest hip hop market in the world after the United States.…

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Hip-hop at 50: Back to the Bronx, where it all began (part 1)

This week we're celebrating 50 years since the birth of hip-hop. More than a musical genre, it’s a global phenomenon. Business, sport, fashion, politics – hip-hop influences it all. Our culture team has recorded a four-part series in New York and Paris to trace its journey from the streets of…

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'Game of Thrones' star Emilia Clarke supports strikes at Deauville Film Festival

In this edition from the Deauville American Film Festival on the Normandy coast, we meet an actress who shot to world fame as the Queen of Dragons in the hit TV series "Game of Thrones". We've also seen her in the films "Me Before You", "Last Christmas" and "Solo: A…

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Berlin Bad Boy Artist Jonathan Meese: 'I'm the sweet boy of art!'

It's back-to-school time here in France, which means a whole new season of cultural gems to look out for. In this edition we're talking about some of the Paris exhibitions on show, alongside a studio guest described as the "enfant terrible" of the Berlin art scene. German painter, sculptor, performance…

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Film show: Venice Film Festival opens amid Hollywood strikes

Film critic Lisa Nesselson speaks to Eve Jackson about the week's film news, including the Venice and Deauville film festivals, the box office hits of the summer "Oppenheimer", "Barbie" and "Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning", plus a look at the Franco-Senegalese writer-director Ramata-Toulaye Sy's love story "Banel & Adama", which is…

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Paris Opera star Hugo Marchand strives to make ballet more accessible

To kick off a new season of Encore!, Eve Jackson welcomes French dancer Hugo Marchand, a star of one of France's most prestigious cultural institutions. Known for his unique dancing style that mixes strength and grace, he was named principal dancer at the Paris Opera in 2017 when he was…

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Jane Birkin: The British actress who became a French icon

She was an icon in France: a British actress, singer and muse to many. In this edition we remember Jane Birkin, who died on Sunday at the age of 76. A British woman who was a cultural idol for the French, the lover and collaborator of one of their most…

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100% series: 'Only Murders in the Building' season 3, with Selena Gomez & Meryl Streep

From the new season of three-time Emmy award-winning "Only Murders in the Building", passing by hit legal show "The Lincoln Lawyer" to our guide on what to watch this summer, Eve Jackson and Dheepthika Laurent talk about all that's new on the small screen in July.

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Film show: Summer blockbusters

From Tom Cruise’s seventh "Mission Impossible", to Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as Barbie and Ken, as well as Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" starring Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon and Emily Blunt, film critic Ben Croll speaks to Eve Jackson about the films of the summer.

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Paris's must-see summer exhibitions

From a joint show with France's best-known political satire cartoonist Plantu and renowned Franco-Iranian photographer Reza at the Musée de l’Homme, to a celebration of street art at the Palais de Tokyo and along the banks of the Canal Saint-Denis, Eve Jackson brings you some of the best exhibitions of…

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Paris Haute Couture week: Viktor & Rolf celebrate their birthday with swimsuits

From the Avignon theatre festival – a three-week stage extravaganza that kicks off this week – to prehistoric cave images at the Arles photography festival and Viktor & Rolf's swimsuit show for their 30th anniversary at Paris Haute Couture week, Eve Jackson brings you France's latest culture news.

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How French Super-She-ro cartoon 'Miraculous' became an international sensation

After five series, "Miraculous", one of the world's most watched animated shows, has been made into a movie. Jeremy Zag – who not only directed "Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir" but wrote, produced and composed the music for it – speaks to Eve Jackson and film critic Lisa Nesselson about…

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Dominique Crenn: One of the world's top chefs opens first Paris restaurant

Dominique Crenn stands distinguished as the sole female chef in America to have been honoured with three Michelin stars. With an impressive portfolio that includes cooking for Emmanuel Macron and appearances on the Emmy-nominated series 'Chef’s Table', as well as programs like 'Iron Chef' and 'Tournament of Champions', Crenn considers…

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June TV series: 'The Idol', sleazy trash or black satire?

From the return of "The Full Monty" 25 years later that hits a political message, to a look at the controversial series "The Idol" with The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp that's being slammed for its graphic sexual content, TV critic Dheepthika Laurent speaks to Eve Jackson about what's on the…

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Author Hernan Diaz on his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'Trust'

Multi-award-winning author Hernan Diaz speaks to Eve Jackson about tackling the taboo of money in his book "Trust", which won this year's prestigious Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The Brooklyn-based author talks about redressing the fact that narratives around great wealth come from the viewpoint of men. "Trust" is the story…

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