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...And there are lesser-known sagas: his account of the filming of Marcel Carné’s Les Enfants du Paradis in 1943, shot in Nice under the evil eye of the Vichy government, captures the triumph of creativity...
...But he has also recently realised his own long-held directorial ambitions with his debut feature film, L’enfant du Paradis....
...Jean Seberg’s boy cut for Joan of Arc, that nuanced “Deneuve” blonde, and Françoise Hardy’s fringe....
...Speaking in 2011 about his then partner Vanessa Paradis, Johnny Depp offered this analysis of the moment he fell in love: “It was the Hôtel Costes,” he told reporters....
...Lily-Rose Depp, the 17-year-old daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, followed shortly after, in a shimmer of gold, shiny white lace-ups and an expansive smile....
...Among the nine sets of illustrations are the Dancing Frog, hoofing (or webbing) with Astaire and Rogers, the wordless, funny-sad Clown, inspired by Jean-Louis Barrault’s mime in Les Enfants du Paradis; How...
...Mr Hollande has campaigned strongly for curbs on such “paradis fiscaux”, as tax havens are called in France....
...Jean Asselborn, foreign minister of Luxembourg, where the banking sector has offered low taxes to its customers since well before the euro was founded, came out denouncing a German “diktat”....
...Favourite film: Les Enfants du Paradis, on account of the poetry, the intermingling of love, grief and the theatre and the fact that Jean-Louis Barrault looks very like my father in his youth....
...Riding takes note of Albert Camus’ novel L’Etranger, plays by Sartre (Huis Clos) and Jean Anouilh (Antigone), Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps and Marcel Carné’s film Les Enfants du Paradis...
...newest, most eccentric and provocative gift, deposited here last year, is on show this summer in the The Planque Collection: The Example of Cézanne: selections from the 300 works assembled by Swiss maverick Jean...
...The direction also relies on the inherent drama of the situation, buoyed up by the verisimilitude of Jean-Marc Stehlé’s monumental decor....
...“I’d seen Les enfants du paradis twice, which I loved, but very little else. It was quite liberating because I felt free to make films the way I wanted to make them....
...Verbier still feels discreet, a place where the extremely wealthy can wear jeans, not fur, and where the locals don’t talk about who’s in town.”...
...Among Cannes' most prestigious addresses are Chemin des Collines and Corniche du Paradis Terrestre, streets where Florentine mansions stand next to Oriental Âpalaces, Provençal manor houses and ultra-modern...
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