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Cinema Provincial

La Sortie Des Usines
Thank Voltaire for the Lumiere Brothers. Since they invented cinema by
filming a short sequence of the workers of their factory, predictably enough, walking out(*) (albeit at the end of the working day) France has held the flicks in a special corner of her heart.
The love affair manifests itself in a number of […]

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LA RENTRÉE DES….

Napoleon is famously said to have labelled the English a ‘nation of shopkeepers’. Anyone English wishing to retaliate for this reducing of all Englishness to that Ronnie Barker character from ‘Open all hours’ need not look too far – the French themselves are a nation of eternal schoolchildren.
This is brought home to me every year […]

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