Paris
PolisseWednesday, 13 June 2012
Hailed in some quarters for its gruelling realism in the depiction of the work of the Paris-based Child Protection Unit (the French call it La Brigade de Protection des Mineurs), Polisse is another French cop drama but with tiresome pretensions of... Read more... |
dÉbruit, Auntie Flo at The Boiler RoomThursday, 10 May 2012
Club culture has always had a tension between democratisation (“come one, come all!”) and exclusivity (the thrill of being in the know about the newest or most underground thing). The best clubs have always been the ones that find ways of short-... Read more... |
Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite, British MuseumTuesday, 08 May 2012
The Vollard Suite is Picasso’s most celebrated series of etchings. Named after Ambroise Vollard, the influential avant-garde art dealer who gave the 19-year-old Picasso his first exhibition in Paris in 1901, the series was commissioned by the dealer... Read more... |
The Arts Desk Radio Show 2Thursday, 03 May 2012
Welcome to our second show, brought to you again from the Red Bull Studio in London where it was recorded by Brendon Harding.This time, Peter and Joe are joined live in the studio by two guests: friend of theartsdesk and musical polymath Mara... Read more... |
Braquo, FXMonday, 30 April 2012
The first series of the French cops gone-to-pot drama ended with Lieutenant Eddy Caplan about to blow the head off his nemesis Serge Lemoine. Offing him was supposed to solve all Caplan and his team’s problems. Unfortunately, Lemoine was fitted with... Read more... |
Interview: Braquo and A Prophet screenwriter Abdel Raouf DafriFriday, 27 April 2012
Explaining the difference between the first series of the uncompromising French policier Braquo and the second, which he has come on board to write, Abdel Raouf Dafri says his take is “even more violent, even more sarcastic. The line between the... Read more... |
France Remembers Claude FrançoisSunday, 08 April 2012
If you’re not French, there are probably two things you know about Claude François: that he wrote “My Way” and that he died from electrocution when fiddling with a lighting fixture while in the bath. In France, however, he’s been part of pop-... Read more... |
Return of French police drama BraquoTuesday, 27 March 2012Fans of grungy Gallic crime sagas can rejoice at the return of Braquo, which is back on FX on 29 April. The non-law-abiding squad of unscrupulous Paris flics have suffered various demotions and punishments following their behaviour in series one,... Read more... |
The Girl in the Yellow Dress, Theatre 503Saturday, 24 March 2012
Ethnic tensions in France have been in the news this week, with the siege of the gunman Mohammed Merah, so award-winning South-African penman Craig Higginson’s new play seems really timely. First seen in this country at the Salisbury Playhouse, and... Read more... |
DVD: Une Femme MariéeTuesday, 21 February 2012
Une Femme Mariée has been all but lost. Made in 1964 and barely seen since, it lurked silently in Godard's filmography between Bande à Part and Alphaville. Its availability on Dual Format DVD/Blu-ray plugs a gap and also offers the chance to find a... Read more... |
Mondrian || Nicholson in Parallel, The Courtauld GalleryMonday, 20 February 2012
Conversations between artists both verbal and visual are the flavour of the month: the big voice of Picasso is almost but not quite drowning out a septet of British artists over at Tate Britain. Now joining the chorus is a fascinating exploration of... Read more... |
Interview: Director Pawel PawlikowskiFriday, 17 February 2012
Pawel Pawlikowski was named BAFTA’s Most Promising Newcomer for his feature debut Last Resort (2000), then the follow-up, 2004’s My Summer of Love, won Outstanding British Film of the Year. But neither felt obviously British, reflecting border-zone... Read more... |
