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...By now, how many fans of Les Misérables are even aware it existed for 118 years before “I Dreamed a Dream” was first belted out in 1980?...
...I can do that, le Carré smiles, “Like I can do bird noises.”...
...“Le Carré would have called that episode ‘self-induced schizophrenia’,” Morris says now. It may be that he was fated to work with le Carré....
...New in town, our bright-eyed sweetmaker is taken in by a pair of grubby hoteliers (Olivia Colman and Tom Davis), with their own debt to the swindling Thénardiers of Les Misérables....
...As for the food: he asked himself, “If my New York friends Danny Meyer, Jonathan Waxman and Stephen Starr opened this restaurant on Central Park, what would they serve?”...
...A principal is Huong Nguyen Thien Le, a childhood reader of Jules Verne who later fell in love with her own country’s journey to the centre of the Earth....
...Take a break from the news In a year of titans from Tár to Napoleon, FT film critic Danny Leigh has selected the best films of 2023....
...Our heroine is Ama (Le’Shantey Bonsu), a bright-spark 11-year-old living with her African migrant mother, Grace (Déborah Lukumuena)....
...After being raped by the warder Tybalt (the scarily good Danny Reubens), Juliet finds solace in the arms of Romeo before a catastrophic (and very gory) breakdown....
...I assume this is a guided walk until guide Danny Stoffel starts handing out harnesses....
...In 2018, Park directed The Little Drummer Girl, a well-regarded six-part BBC adaptation of the John le Carré novel, starring Florence Pugh....
...‘King Lear’, Almeida Theatre Yaël Farber directs Danny Sapani (Killing Eve, Black Panther) in the title role of the Shakespearean tragedy....
...And watching Ithaka, it is hard to argue with the sense of an example being made pour encourager les autres. Which others?...
...(The character is based on Florence Aubenas, whose real-life exposé Le Quai de Ouistreham was published in 2010.)...
...Call Jacques Audiard’s polysided love story Paris, 13th District or the name it went by in France: Les Olympiades. Either way, the movie distances itself from the past....
...For all the gifts of the Hamilton creator, the source of the comeback was warhorse Les Misérables, its 2012 film version made by director Tom Hooper and producer Working Title....
...The movie was a lesson in how, even for a Parisian, a Métro journey to Les Halles can seem like a journey to another world....
...An actor needs more than presence to do what she does here — asked to play broken doll, middlebrow fan of Les Mis and chic avenger. Her inner landscape teeters....
...Damon’s de Carrouges presents himself as a fearless warrior undermined by social climber Le Gris. Driver’s gifted charmer sees it otherwise....
...Glance in haste at the Danish crime drama Shorta and you will swear you have seen it all before — a brawny conflation of John Carpenter, John Ford, LA cop opera Training Day and most recently Les Misérables...
...In the grandly batty French cinema of his career to date, Carax has had Juliette Binoche water-ski down the Seine (Les Amants Du Pont Neuf) and Denis Lavant eat flowers in Père Lachaise cemetery (Holy Motors...
...In both his first two films, Lavant’s lovesick hero was called “Alex” — as he was in the third, Les Amants Du Pont-Neuf....
...Good news comes in threes: Arsenal beat Manchester United on Saturday, Emmanuel Macron defeated Marine Le Pen on Sunday, and today we have fixed our email gremlin, so please do get in touch at the below...
...You taste a corrosive drop of Le Carré, so too a trace of Pawel Pawlikowski (with whose Ida the film shares a co-writer, Rebecca Lenkiewicz)....
...His French director Florian Zeller was also the writer of the play the film is based on, Le Père. The project is now relocated to the cinema, the story to London....
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