Nouvelle Vague Various cinemas Blue Moon Available on streaming services Though cinema is the youngest art form – the tenth Muse, or seventh art, as the French have sometimes called it – it isn’t nece

Remember PADS? This was the ‘post-Avatar depression syndrome’ widely reported in 2010, where distressed filmgoers claimed that they were feeling blue because the planet of Pandora from 2009’s Avatar w

Simone De Beauvoir The Image of HerTranslated by Lauren Elkin208pp, Penguin Vintage Classics, £14.99 The first reviews of Simone De Beauvoir’s novel Les Belles images (1966) were dismissive. Some crit

I’ve made a lot of films about young people trying to figure out what the hell they’re doing in the world. Although I’m still wondering that myself. It’s so interesting looking back – I realised from

In “a junkyard of surrealistic mayhem”: Adele Bertei ...

Last April, a surprising photograph (see near right) appeared on the Wikipedia page devoted to Jeanne Duval, the long-term mistress of Charles Baudelaire and the “Black Venus” who inspired some of the