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WRP and Lost in Frenchlation collaborate on a show to bring you a thoughtful look into contemporary French films, as well as an occasional look back to the films the shaped French cinema as a whole.
Created by World Radio Paris and recorded in Paris.
On this episode of Lost in Frenchlation, today we are talking to Alice Wincour who directed ‘Couture‘ starring Angelina Jolie. It’s an intimate and artful look at some of the women behind Paris Fashion Week.
Angelina Jolie plays a women named Maxine who is an indie horror director. Her career is about to take off, she is directing a film for a big Fashion House during Paris Fashion Week and has more opportunities on the horizon. She is suddenly diagnosed with a fast moving cancer. As the week progresses Maxine’s story intersects with a model from South Sudan, a make up artist struggling to find her place, and a seamstress in love with the art of costume. This episode is hosted by Alex Brook Lynn and Manon Kerjean.
This is the 2nd time Alice has been on the show. Check out her last episode here:
For the film Revoir Paris about the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. https://rss.com/podcasts/lost-in-frenchlation/2463061/
Couture on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34688195/
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A period film with all the juicy modern Paris architecture gossip! In this episode of Lost in Frenchlation, hosts ARBL Murray (Alex Brook Lynn) and Manon Kerjean are excited to delve into the film L’Inconnu de la Grande Arche or The Great Arch with director, Stéphane Demoustier.
The film takes place in the 1980s and is based on the true story about the building of the Great Arch at La Défense in Paris. It was to be a great achievement among The “Grands Projects” of socialist President Francois Mitterrand, It was to become a part of the great views of Paris and to add to the sight line from the Arc de Triomphe. A Danish Architect, named Johan Otto von Spreckelson won a design competition and was awarded the project. His insistence on perfection and his clear vision butted up against the compromises needed in French bureaucracy, and of course in the mid eighties the realities of private interest eroding the sanctity of public projects. Under the weight of circumstance one man goes mad with his ambitions for lasting art and architecture.
The film is based on the 2016 novel Le Grande Arche by Lawrence Cossé.
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In this episode of Lost in Frenchlation, we are at the Cinéma du Panthéon in the 5th arrondissement of Paris with Arnaud Desplechin talking about his film Deux Pianos as it screens. The film stars Charlotte Rampling, Nadia Tareskavich, and Francois Civil.
Deux Pianos is about a piano prodigy, Mathias, who has been away for a long time, he returns to Lyon to play music with his mentor Elena (Charlotte Rampling). He runs into the love of his life Claude, he hasn’t seen her for many years. She has a young child and is married to Pierre. When Pierre suddenly dies questions about who the son’s father really is comes up, Mathias wonders if he will stay and try to make a family with the young widow or continue on his path toward musical brilliance and a solitary life.
This is the second time we have had Arnaud on our show and as always we are able to delve into the mechanics of making films and crafting art and story. Arnaud shares with us his childhood experiences with the young widows in his family, how he feels about motherhood, and his writing process with partner Kamen Velkovsy.
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On November 13th, at L’Arlequin cinema, Manon Kerjean screened Revoir Paris for the 10th anniversary of the Paris terrorist attacks. Revoir Paris is set during the attacks of 2015.
During the screening, Manon and ARBL Murray were able to interview the filmmaker who captured that fateful day so remarkably, Alice Winocour. Alice talked to us about the impetus to make the film, using sound design to help the audience feel the memory fragmentation and trauma of the characters.
Alice also talks about how she immerses herself in a subject entirely while making a film and what it means to have represented this story, the story of so many victims, and of Paris itself.
On this episode of Lost in Frenchlation, we talk to Suzanne Lindon and Paul Kircher about what it was like to star in the new film by Cedric Klapisch, La Venue de l’avenir (French Title), Colors of Time (English Title). As always ARBL Murray (Alex Brook Lynn), and Manon Kerjean interviewed the pair as their film screened at Le Balzac Cinema during a Lost in Frenchlation event.
Suzanne and Paul share about what it was like to embody characters from the turn of the 19th century in Paris, as the modern city began to emerge. We talk about art, life, emotional scenes, and legacy.
La Venue de l’avenir (Colors of Time) is about four cousins who inherit a house in rural Normandy. They are encouraged to sell it to make way for a large development but after they visit the house they begin to discover the story of their ancestors, notably a young woman named Adèle (Suzanne Lindon). They trace her story through Paris as the city is really starting to embrace the modern age.
Both Paul and Suzanne are born and raised Parisians and recommend the film Le Péril Jeune (Good Old Daze) and a quintessential coming of age film about young Parisians.
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On this episode of Lost in Frenchlation Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray (Alex Brook Lynn) interview Giulio Callegari the director of the new robot comedy ‘Un Monde Merveilleux’ or the English version ‘Robot T-O’
The film is set in the not so distant future in which robot companions have hit the consumer market and are now as common as the I-phone. We meet Max and her 10 year old daughter Paula who live off stealing and small time hustles. When they steal an outdated robot model and try to re-sell it, things don’t work out as planned and Max is separated from Paula and stuck with only the robot named Tio to help get her daughter back. Although Max hates technology and how robots have changed the world, she learns a few lessons from her new robot friend.
Originally a screenwriter for various films and TV shows, Gulio has made his directorial debut with this film. Guilio talks about the classics that inspired the parent/ child dynamics in this film like Cassavetes’ Gloria and Eastwood’s A Perfect World. We delve into what makes Blanche Charlie the perfect modern day Charlie Chaplin and why we should all be afraid of robots with cute faces.
This episode was recorded at the Luminor Theater in Paris.
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In this Episode of Lost in Frenchlation we talk to Laura Piani, the writer and director of ‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,’ a new romantic comedy about a woman who lives between the pages and struggles to finish her own story. Laura shares with us why she decided to direct, what inspired this story, and how she chose to show the work of Jane Austen in a new light.
We delve into some of the autobiographical elements of the film: The main character works at the famed Shakespeare and Co. as did Laura herself– and discuss the male archetypes in the films wonderfully funny love triangle, and the best book Laura ever read.
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The hosts for this episode are Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray. This episode was recorded and produced by World Radio Paris.
In this Episode of Lost in Frenchlatin we talk with lauded French filmmaker and screenwriter Arnaud Desplechin about his new film ‘Spectateurs!’ (Filmlovers!)
His film screened at the beautiful Jeu de Paume in the Tuileries Gardens, during the Lost in Frenchlation event. Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray were able to chat with Arnaud about his films, his inspiration, and what it was like to put together his own personal ode to cinema. Arnaud tells us why he used the mixed forms of narrative and documentary, what his earliest interactions with art were and why Pretty Woman occupies his thoughts from time to time.
In this Episode We Discuss:
Philosopher:
Stanley Cavell
Films:
Shoah by Claude Lanzmann
Killer of Sheep by Charles Burnett
The Exiled by Johnnie To
Pretty Woman by Garry Marshall
Arnaud’s must see recommendation for recent films:
Souleymane’s Story by Boris Lojkine
Listen to Arnaud give a talk about why he loves the film Pretty Woman (In French)
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In this Episode of Lost in Frenchlatin we continue our series on the Cinemas of Paris. Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray chat with Camille Labé, the new Owner of L’épée de Bois. L’épée de Bois is a small cinema on Rue Mouffetard, one of the most iconic streets of Paris. The cinema opened in 1971 and has changed hands several times. Camille is the most recent owner having taken ownership in February of 2024. Camille tells us what it’s like to run a cinema with a focus on community and classic cinema.
Camille is a big fan of classic comedy and she recommends checking out:
The films of Louis de Funès
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On this episode of Lost in Frenchlation, Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray talk to the crew at the Luminor Cinema, one of the oldest movie houses in Paris, about what it’s like to run an art-house theater. From the Paris projectionist shortage to the regulations for film distribution, the story of the Luminor touches all facets of film culture in Paris and, more broadly, France.
Andy Sellitto is the cinema manager, and Anna Dichio coordinates events as well as heads the awareness campaign to Save The Luminor. They reveal for us what it’s like to run this place, in one of the most famous neighborhoods in the world (The Marais), while fighting for the attention of cinema-goers and dodging building owners who want to shut it all down.
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Recorded by David Blanc for World Radio Paris at independent cinema Club de L’Étoile in Paris.
In this episode Yannick Champion-Osselin & Manon Kerjean interview Sionann O’Neill & Joan Lagache, the two translators for ‘Anatomy of a Fall.’ The thriller that was lauded internationally for its use of linguistics as a plot device.
‘Anatomy of a Fall‘ follows Sandra, a German writer, her French husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, the police question whether he committed suicide or was killed, and Sandra becomes the main suspect.
Little by little the trial becomes not just an investigation of the circumstances of Samuel’s death, but an unsettling psychological journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel’s conflicted relationship.
The film received the Palme d’or in Cannes last year, a Bafta, Golden Globes, one oscar, and six César, among other prizes.