Heidi Ellison
What’s New in Paris: J’Irai Dormir Chez Vous (2)
TAKE A STRANGE MAN HOME TONIGHT If you are walking down the street anywhere in the world and are approached by a slight, handsome man wearing a red shirt and a strange contraption fitted with three cameras pointing at you, … Read More
Miquel Barceló: Terra-Mare, Avignon
“Untitled” (2009), one of Miquel Barceló’s paintings on termite-eaten paper. © Miquel Barceló/ADAGP Miquel Barceló, like Pablo Picasso, is a natural-born artist, working with enormous ease, superhuman energy and great versatility. Just as Picasso could look at … Favorite
Safari in Nantes
Mathieu Mercier’s “Cage à Oiseaux.” The French city of Nantes is one of the last destinations you would consider for a safari, unless you were on the hunt for works of animal-themed art, currently the … Favorite
Villa Saint Victor
Home at the Château One of the sitting rooms where guests can mingle or have a quiet drink. The Villa Saint Victor, a hilltop château-hotel in Provence, is not the ancestral residence of Geoffroy and Stéphane Vieljeux’s family, but the … Read More
Evento
ART FOR AN URBAN REVOLUTION One of Pascal Marthine Tayou’s “poupées” from his installation at the Musée d’Aquitaine. The city of Bordeaux’s biannual citywide contemporary art festival, Evento, took a sociopolitical turn this year under the artistic direction of Italian … Read More
A long engagement for movie-goers
Amélie Fans Beware Oct. 27, 2004: If you, like millions of others, loved Amélie, the film that managed to make Montmartre even more of a tourist attraction, that doesn’t mean you will love director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s latest, “Un long dimanche … Read More
Les Particules Elémentaires
Bruno (Moritz Bleibtreu) rants at his dying mother while his half-brother Michel (Christian Ulmen) looks on. Les Particules Elémentaires, the controversial novel by French provocateur extraordinaire Michel Houellebecq, has been transformed into a German film, Elementareilchen, directed by Oskar Roehler. … Read More
Paris Je t’Aime
L’Amour, Toujours L’Amour Steve Buscemi as a hapless tourist in the Coen brothers’ contribution to the collaborative film. Photo © Patrick Klein/Victoires International 2006 A love letter to Paris in the form of 18 five-minute short subjects strung together into … Read More
13 Tzameti
Unlucky Number George Babluani plays Sébastien. It seems unlikely that Hollywood would take an interest in such a dark film as 13 Tzameti, but critics were quick to see its potential as an American remake after the movie picked up … Read More
Vers le Sud
Love for Sale Ellen with her summertime lover, Legba, in Vers le Sud. Like many French directors, Laurent Cantet has always taken an interest in thorny social issues. His last two movies, L’Emploi du Temps (Time Out) and Ressources Humaines … Read More