Ukrainian Sergei Loznitsa's A Gentle Creature an absurd struggle against...
Time seems to have stood still in this film set somewhere in a possibly contemporary Russia. In A Gentle Creature where nightmares collide with real-life situations. It is a loose adaption of a story...
View ArticleDu Bartàs, voice of the south of France
RFI reports from the recent Accents du sud festival in Paris which gave pride of place to the Occitan language from the south of France. Singers from the Béarn province in the Pyrenees showed why their...
View ArticleGerman director Fatih Akin explores reactions to loss of loved ones in terror...
One of the last films vying for the Golden Palm this year at the Cannes Film Festival is far from being the least. German director Fatih Akin's In the Fade has raised questions about how films here can...
View ArticleFrance votes and gets a new look
This week on The Sound Kitchen, guest chef Aidan O’Donnell will give you the answer to the question about the first round of France’s 2017 presidential poll. There’s some great music, and of course,...
View ArticleSex, cats and psychiatrists frame Ozon's Cannes entry
The Cannes Film Festival enters its final strech with French director François Ozon’s “L’Amant double”, about a troubled ex-model who falls for her twin shrinks.
View ArticleLegendary guitarist Eric Clapton receives French award
Guitar legend Eric Clapton has been honoured by France for his services to music, the French embassy in London said.
View ArticleA Man of Integrity, a Iranian film with an anti-corruption theme wins Un...
The 2017 Cannes Film Festival awards began on Saturday 27th May, leading up to the Palm Awards on Sunday. The Festival's Un certain regard, (A Particular View) section gave its top prize to an Iranian...
View ArticleSwedish satire 'The Square' wins top prize at Cannes 2017
Swedish satire "The Square", a send-up of political correctness and the confused identity of the modern male, won the Palme d'Or top prize at the Cannes film festival Sunday.
View ArticleSwedish satire The Square wins the 2017 Palme D'Or
The Square convinced the Cannes Film Festival with its wry and sometimes absurd humour. Director Ruben Ostlund from Sweden and main actor Claes Bang from Denmark make a satirical dig at our gradually...
View ArticleAbel Ferrara rocks and other less-publicised films at Cannes
In this month's Cinefile, Rosslyn Hyams goes looking for some of the smaller films at the Cannes Film Festival, including a rock-music documentary Alive in France by Abel Ferrara.
View ArticleMalian artist Oumou Sangaré releases new album Mogoya
In this week's World Music Matters Alison Hird reports on one of west Africa's greatest female voices - Oumou Sangaré from Mali. She has just released a new album Mogoya after an eight year break but...
View ArticleMamane’s international cast
This week on The Sound Kitchen, guest chef Aidan O’Donnell will give you the answer to the question about Rosslyn Hyam’s new show, Cinefile. There’s some great music, and of course, the new quiz...
View ArticleWork by French painter Soulages fetches record sum at auction
A 1962 painting with a generic title by 97 year-old artist Pierre Soulages was sold at an auction in France this week for more than six million euros.
View ArticleCuban musician Ernesto 'Tito' Puentes dies, aged 88
Cuban conductor and trumpet player Ernesto ‘Tito’ Puentes died on Thursday morning in Montpellier, southern France, where he lived.
View ArticleMansfarroll and Campana Project pay tribute to jazz great Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie, the great trumpet player and pioneer of a style of modern jazz known as be-bop, was also very influenced by Afro-Cuban music. To mark the centenary of his birth, the Mansfarroll and...
View ArticleThe 2017 French presidential poll scorecard
This week on The Sound Kitchen, guest chef Aidan O’Donnell will give you the answer to the question about the French presidential poll. There’s some great music, and of course, the new quiz question....
View ArticlePolanski victim pleads for rape case to be closed
The American woman raped by French-born filmmaker Roman Polanski at the age of 13 begged a California judge to end the case on Friday. Samantha Geimer said she has been serving a 40-year sentence that...
View ArticleCentenary events in Paris show great French sculptor Auguste Rodin's secret...
Queues to see the sensual works of sculptor Auguste Rodin at Hôtel Biron in Paris are usually long in any season. This year they are longer as the Rodin Museum is leading the events to commemorate the...
View ArticleSonghoy Blues releases its ode to Resistance
Songhoy Blues is an exciting young guitar quartet from northern Mali. As they release their second album Résistance, lead singer Aliou Touré talks to RFI about how Bamako's club scene defies ethnic...
View ArticleBaby Louis and his parents
This week on The Sound Kitchen, guest chef Aidan O’Donnell will give you the answer to the question about dinosaur Baby Louis’ parents. There’s some great music, and of course, the new quiz question....
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