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The controversial French actor and filmmaker’s latest work sees her in the role of courtesan in 1760s Versailles
Giuliano da Empoli’s first novel is a fictional account of the Russian president’s rise, told through the eyes of a shadowy political adviser
Pierre Lemaitre’s Balzacian epic explores the excesses of capitalism in the aftermath of the second world war
The ‘Hereditary’ and ‘Midsommar’ director discusses sending Joaquin Phoenix’s mummy’s boy on an anxiety-filled odyssey
Éric Vuillard writes another historically acute account of big business and political elites at play
The Berlin-based American screenwriter talks about the plight of wartime Jews in her new series Transatlantic
The director discusses dramatising the trial of a woman who left her child to die — and why it reflects ‘a very French form of racism’
Graham Boynton’s biography turns the spotlight on the American artist and adventurer
Barry Forshaw’s detailed study unravels clues to the Belgian writer’s prolific output and controversial life
This year’s Rencontres d’Arles festival showcases her photographs of New York’s 1970s avant-garde arts scene
The writer’s new Netflix show about Paris’s comedy scene, Standing Up, delves into identity and immigration
Written while under house arrest, Kirill Serebrennikov’s provocative film reflects his country’s rampant nationalism
The artist reflects on the weight of history and the poetry of Paul Celan for his show in Paris
Le Carré’s ability to inhabit the deepest recesses of his characters is on sparkling display in his final completed book
The writer-director’s latest is set partially in Nazareth but is about ‘tension rising everywhere’, not just in Palestine
Selected writings by the great director, during his youth as a journalist in Weimar Berlin, capture the joyous time and hint at an illustrious future
Can a writer’s voice truly remain neutral? A bold approach by a French essayist compared to Montaigne
A beguiling debut about lives lived in the orbit of an artistic temperament
This immense prequel to ‘Life and Fate’ on the siege of Stalingrad finally gets its English translation
The tragic fate of one half of a family with Germanic blood is uncovered in a pacy, compelling novel
An exemplary biography of one of America’s most unusual writers grounds the novel in his own literary awakening
Based on a script by Anthony Burgess, this new novel about the Hundred Years’ War brims with blood and gore
The Swiss-born photographer has built a career on acute observations of French life
The late Irish writer’s final gift to us is a sublime collection of short stories
The film mecca lured global fans of high-end TV drama with a festival devoted to the form
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