arts24

By FRANCE 24 English

Culture news from the world's art, food and fashion capital, Paris. Join us every day at 12:15 Paris time for reviews and conversations on what’s arguably the only daily arts programme on TV.

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December 07, 2020 Norwegian singer-songwriter Ane Brun releases powerful and moving back-to-back albums
With nearly two decades of music behind her, Norwegian singer-songwriter Ane Brun has made a name for herself the world over as a moving and passionate songwriter. This autumn, she's back with her first body of original music in five years, two albums released a month apart: "After the Great Storm" and "How Beauty Holds the Hand of Sorrow". She tells FRANCE 24's Florence Villeminot about the different moods and musical landscapes on the album and how they reflect two sides of her.
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December 04, 2020 Brazil’s art scene on the brink: Award-winning film shows a city in crisis
Rio de Janeiro’s ballet dancers had been performing for months without receiving their salaries when Vincent Rimbaux put them in the frame of his Emmy award-winning documentary “Ressaca”. The director tells us why the city’s municipal opera house is a microcosm of wider problems in Brazil’s public sector, pushing artists to leave the country in search of opportunities abroad. The lockdown has provided an unexpected musical high for a cellist here in Paris, as the empty streets and silent monuments of the French capital provide the perfect stage for a series of special events.
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December 03, 2020 Joan Armatrading: 'I was born to do this'
She was the first British female singer-songwriter to achieve international success. Hits such as "Love and Affection" and "Me Myself I" in the 70s made her a household name, but other songs like "Barefoot and Pregnant" now a feminist anthem, and "Rosie" about a transgender character have become cultural landmarks. As Joan Armatrading turns 70, she speaks to Eve Jackson about getting a CBE from the Queen and the UK's Women of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award, being asked to write a song for Nelson Mandela and how she sees the future of the music industry after the pandemic.
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13min
December 02, 2020 Film show: David Fincher resuscitates Golden Age wit ‘Mank’
The director of “Seven”, “Fight Club” and “The Social Network” has made his latest, critically-acclaimed feature for streaming service Netflix: “Mank” transports us to the Hollywood of the screenwriter responsible for “Citizen Kane”. Film critic Lisa Nesselson tells us why this stylish return to the Golden Age of cinema is a must-see today. We discuss a new ranking of the 21st century’s best actors, tipping our respective caps to France’s Isabelle Huppert.
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November 30, 2020 Hervé Le Tellier wins prestigious Goncourt literature prize
A genre-blurring, polyphonic thriller about the double lives of passengers aboard a flight from Paris to New York, has won this year’s Goncourt prize. French author Hervé Le Tellier was awarded France’s top literary prize for his novel “l’Anomalie” (The Anomaly). This year marked a change to tradition for the prize; for the first time in over a century, the Goncourt Academy didn’t meet to decide the winner at the gastronomic Druant restaurant, but instead met over the video conference platform Zoom.
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November 30, 2020 Bilal Hassani: En route to pop superstardom
French Youtube star Bilal Hassani is fast becoming one of the country's most glamorous popstars. After taking part in the 2019 edition of the Eurovision song contest, he's just released his second studio album "Contre soirée". Marjorie Hache asked him all about getting the counter party started and the anti-bullying campaign he wants to bring to French schools. We also take a look at new releases by Rico Nasty, Thomas Dutronc and Sigur Ros.
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13min
November 27, 2020 Is season 4 of 'The Crown' too close for comfort?
It's a show that like the queen herself needs little introduction: Alison Sargent and Olivia Salazar-Winspear dive into the fourth season of Netflix's drama "The Crown", featuring much-awaited portrayals of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Lady Diana Spencer. As the series gets closer to the current day, some find its depiction of sensitive events hits too close to home. We explore the controversy with the help of history professor Anna Whitelock.
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14min
November 26, 2020 Feeding France: The restaurant chefs helping the poor during Covid-19 pandemic
As restaurants are declared closed until at least mid-January, we meet the top French chefs cooking up food for those in need during lockdown. We also delve into the mysterious world of missing and stolen art in a new online exhibition devoted to missing masterpieces. Plus, our reporters head to the El Gouna film festival to meet the Arab world's directors making movies as a political venture to challenge what they see as an overly traditionalist society.
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13min
November 25, 2020 Film show: Mime star Marcel Marceau's wartime heroics
Lisa Nesselson speaks to Eve Jackson about the week's film news, including Jesse Eisenberg's role in "Resistance", playing the legendary mime star Marcel Marceau who helped thousands of Jews escape the Nazis. They also discuss restored films from 20th century Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu and the online Black Australia Festival, which is devoted to lifting up indigenous voices.
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November 24, 2020 'Face It': Debbie Harry's memoir on sex, drugs, David Bowie and the mask of Blondie
Blondie star Debbie Harry speaks to Eve Jackson about a life of rock 'n' roll madness. They chat about her autobiography, recently translated into French, which features stories of hanging out with Andy Warhol, taking drugs, being flashed by David Bowie and having her house taken by the tax collector – all while becoming a trailblazing rock star. It covers her adoption aged three months and goes all the way up to her recent 2017 album "Pollinator". The band has just announced a UK against-the-odds tour for November 2021 with the group Garbage.
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