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Albert Camus

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7 days ago

François Ozon’s adaptation of the 1942 novella L’Etranger passionately honours the original text while bringing a contemporary perspective to its themes of empire and race

A heatstricken reverie of vi…

14 days ago

Let’s get metaphysical! Existentialist cinema is back, if anyone cares ⊕⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The philosophy was embraced by film noir, the French New Wave and modern hitmen questioning life’s purpose. Now dust off your turtlenecks, for Sirāt and a new version of Albert Camus’ The Stranger lo…

4 months ago

François Ozon’s handling of classic novel draws both praise and criticism, including from the author’s daughter

More than 80 years after it was published, Albert Camus’s L’Étranger remains one of the …

6 months ago

Football Daily | Diego Simeone, Anfield and some shouting in the workplace ○

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Prepare the tiny violins! Someone has been shouting at Diego Simeone! Famously thin-skinned and a bastion of all that is right and pure in this world, the Atlético Madrid manager was sent off on Wedn…

12 months ago

The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – ‘It was like fresh air’ ○

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

A fascinating, exciting history of how the agency smuggled subversive books across the iron curtain

In, I think, November 1978, I got a call from a rather grand British journalist who’d heard that I w…

13 months ago

A gripping study of the CIA smuggling operation to get banned books behind the iron curtain

In March 1984 Polish customs officers noticed a suspicious truck. It had arrived on an overnight ferry from …

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