Thursday, September 1 2011
Mamani Keita: Gagner L’Argent Français
The Malian singer stays steady and firm at the centre while the Frenchman roams baroque around her, fascinated by her ringing treelike isolation.
Friday, August 12 2011
‘French Cinema’ Is a Tangled, Rumpled Jumble of a History
French Cinema is a popular history that makes its own eccentric claims on what that history should be.
Sunday, April 17 2011
Les Nubians: Nü Revolution
Mild Afro-European R&B with weightless feelgood lyrics about liking the planet and loving your womanhood, and, if you are African, being happy that you have hair.
Thursday, April 14 2011
Cannes 2011: Lineup shows Malick, Almodovar and ‘The Beaver,’ but no Payne or Cronenberg
Thursday, April 7 2011
Les Chauds Lapins: Amourettes
Love, in these songs, is aware of its own delirious state and willing to share the details.
Friday, October 8 2010
Physical and Emotional Boundaries Crumble in ‘Trespass’
In Rose Tremain's new novel about two pairs of siblings battling over past injustices and a stone farmhouse in the south of France, misery loves company to a fault.
Sunday, August 8 2010
‘Dimanche and Other Stories’: An Entomologist of Evil
In these stories about the French before and during WWII, Némirovsky abjures commentary and merely observes the way that human beings go about their petty and ever-disappointing daily business. Thus, her writing is especially cruel.
