Complaint against Cécile Desprairies over Nazi collusion novel alleges that ‘resentment permeates the entire work’
The Polish poet Czesław Miłosz is famously credited with the line: “When a writer is …
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Cécile McLorin Salvant: Oh Snap review | John Fordham's jazz album of the month ○
(Nonesuch)
From breezy swing to scampering synths, folksy harmonies to stark wails of the soul, Salvant’s crystalline vocals shine across her ingenious experiments
When the US-raised French-Haitian sin…
7 months ago
An Ordinary Case review – Daniel Auteuil directs and stars in tense Ruth Rendell-ish crime procedural ○
A careworn husband is accused of murdering his wife in a story inspired by a real life case that dispenses with the genre’s familiar brutality
Here is a fictionalised true crime drama, but one that is…
9 months ago
Partir Un Jour (Leave One Day) review – foodie musical is an undercooked turkey ○
Cannes film festival opening film
Dreadful songs add no flavour to dreary tale of a big-city gourmet returning to her home-cooked roots
The opening gala of Cannes can be such a gamble: a very exposed f…
13 months ago
Orgies, vampires and jewel-laden tortoises: it’s time we buried the myths of decadence in art ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Is western civilisation being destroyed by its own decadence? Was the Roman empire? And does a preference for Lord of the Rings over The Matrix indicate that we are all doomed? Our critic tries to si…
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