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Behind the Candelabra gets raves at Cannes
Steven Soderbergh’s ';Behind the Candelabra ,'; made through the premium cable channel after Soderbergh couldn’t find an interested U.S. distributor, screened last night at Cannes to a enthusiastic reception ...
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France May Allow English-Language Courses In Universities
Demonstrators hold placards as they rally from the Pantheon square towards the National Assembly on May 22, 2013 in Paris, during a protest against a draft law by the French government for higher education. (JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP/Getty ...
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Cannes Sundance Selects Nabs Blue Is the Warmest Color From Wild Bunch
centers on a 15-year-old girl named Adèle who dreams of finding the love of her life. When she meets Thomas -- a dark, handsome, friendly stranger who falls for her instantly -- her dream seems to have come true. But an unsettling erotic reverie upsets the romance before it begins. Adèle imagines that the mysterious, blue-haired girl she encountered in the street slips into her bed ...
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The Cannes Festival means its party-time on the French Riviera
20/05/2013 05:44 CET The magic of the Cannes Film Festival lies of course with the red carpet and the movies, but there are also secret places for the privileged where only the favoured have access. Euronews reporter Frederic Ponsard managed to bag himself an invitation to one of the top soirees. While glamour, a jewel heist and of course the movies have been grabbing the headlines this week ...
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YouTube CEO is Cannes Lions Media Person of the Year
Every year, the so-called Oscars of the advertising world bestows this honor on an influential figure in media whose innovation plays a larger role in shaping the industry. The past three recipients of the award were Jack Dorsey, Eric Schmidt and Mark ...
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UPDATE 1-Vivendi names new management for SFR
Wed May 22, 2013 1:17pm EDT (Adds details on SFR targets, possible IPO) PARIS May 22 (Reuters) - Media and telecoms conglomerate Vivendi has appointed Jean-Yves Charlier as chief executive of French telecome operator SFR, its largest unit, where profits are under pressure from a mobile price war. Charlier, a former board member of Vivendi, has been piloting the group's telecom strategy since ...
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Famed French composer Dutilleux dies at 97
FRANCE'S Henri Dutilleux, whose modernist and impressionist works ranked him among the leading composers of the 20th century, has died in Paris aged 97, his family has announced. The internationally renowned Dutilleux, born in Angers in 1916, was a composer of predominantly instrumental works ranging from symphonies, orchestral pieces, violin concertos and piano music. His latest work ...
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Kill Mittal game lets French workers vent fury
Broken relations between the French and steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal have found a new expression - an online video game called 'Kill ...
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Los Angeles calls upon star French designers for Figaro opera
By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES | Wed May 22, 2013 1:01pm EDT LOS ANGELES May 22 (Reuters) - Count Almaviva, muscles bulging and resplendent in white, struts like a peacock across the stage belting his baritone at his countess, who sits in a flowing red gown against a sparse backdrop of sleek, modernist lines. It is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." But unlike ...
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Germans French eye plan to create jobs for young
Germany's labor minister, Ursula von der Leyen, said Wednesday that she and her French counterpart will meet in Paris next week along with the countries' finance ministers and European industry representatives to discuss the initiative. On July 3, Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to host a meeting of the 27 European Union nations' labor ministers and national labor agency heads in ...
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Cannes 2013 Muhammad Alis Greatest Fight – first look review
Charisma corrective ...Footage of Muhammad Ali, seen here in 1967 declaring his refusal to accept the Vietnam draft, overshadows Frears's film. Photograph: ...
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No.7 out of French Open
Argentina's world No.7 Juan Martin del Potro has pulled out of the French Open with an ongoing viral infection.Del Potro is the second top 10 ranked ATP player to withdraw from the second Grand Slam of 2013 following world No.2 Andy Murray's decision on Tuesday to pull out due to a back injury."This is a tough blow, because these are the events you dream of winning," Del ...
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ECBs Weidmann tells France - Dont repeat budget mistakes
PARIS (Reuters) - France must step up reforms to rein in its budget deficit, Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann said in a magazine interview, urging Paris to avoid repeating "the mistakes of the past." The European Commission has proposed that EU ...
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Femen protester stages mock suicide at Notre Dame cathedral
Inna Schevchenko, Femen's leader, said the Notre Dame protest, above, was a message to all those backing fascism. Photograph: Kenzo ...
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Cannes Review J.C. Chandors All Is Lost
Cannes: 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom' Sells to U.K., Other Markets Redford’s exceptional performance will serve as the primary commercial calling card for Lionsgate upon October ...
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A Beautiful Unbreakable French Press Made From A Mason Jar
You don't have to be a coffee snob to know that French presses are delicate. Anyone who's ever so much as picked up one of the java brewers knows that the glass beakers are incredibly, almost uncomfortably, thin. But Mason jars? Sure, they're ubiquitous, and yeah, they can be a bit twee, but those babies are nothing if not sturdy. Bryan Kappa and Rob Story, the creative and ...
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France says Syrias Assad must give up power to end war
Bashar al-Assad must turn over power to a transitional government in order for a U.S. and Russian-backed peace conference to have any chance of success, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday. "It is perfectly clear that the main aim of this possible conference is to bring in a transitional government for Syria which will have the full executive power," Fabius said ...
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INTERVIEW-Italys Eni chips away at monolithic French gas market
Wed May 22, 2013 12:28pm EDT * Eni wins 50,000 gas customers in eight months * Raises forecast to 650,000 customers by 2016 * Tough market for new entrants, says CEO * Obstacles are govt policy and GDF Suez dominance By Geert De Clercq and Benjamin Mallet PARIS, May 22 (Reuters) - Every day about 500 French consumers sign up with Italian gas vendor Eni as it chips away at the near-total ...
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Germanys Bundesbank chief says France must cut deficit
PARIS (AFP) - The head of Germany's Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, said France needs to make additional efforts to reduce its public deficit, in an interview published Wednesday.France was originally supposed to bring its public deficit back to the EU's ceiling of 3.0 percent of gross domestic product, but has won a two-year extension from the European Commission.Given that the Commission, ...
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Cannes James Franco builds a bookish filmography
But this week at the Cannes Film Festival, he premiered his version of William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying," a novel of fractured perspectives and enormous cinematic challenges. Having earlier screened at Cannes a short film he made as a student at New York University ("The Clerk's Tale"), coming to the festival in the Un Certain Regard section - for innovating or ...
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Karl Lagerfelds Fendi fountain photos to be exhibited
Photographs taken by Fendi's creative director Karl Lagerfeld as part of the brand's 'Fendi for Fountains' initiative will be showcased in Paris this ...
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Frances Hollande says EU seeks automatic tax data sharing
BRUSSELS | Wed May 22, 2013 11:43am EDT BRUSSELS May 22 (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande said on Wednesday that European countries would start working in June on an automatic exchange of tax information, in a bid to recoup some of the billions of euros lost in tax evasion each year. Hollande told a news conference following a four-hour summit of European leaders that the ...
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German-French plan to help jobless
unemployment has become a pressing problem in many countries as economic belt-tightening continues.The German-French initiative comes at a time when both governments are under pressure: Germany faces criticism of its austerity-heavy remedy for Europe's debt crisis, while France has gone ...
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German-French plan to tackle EUs youth unemployment
Germany and France are preparing to launch a drive to combat the problem of high youth unemployment in Europe.Germany's labour minister said that she and her French counterpart will meet in Paris next week along with the countries' finance ministers and European industry representatives to discuss the initiative. Officials in Berlin say the jobs drive will focus on putting already ...
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Suicide on Paris cathedral altar stirs Frances far right
(Facebook) The public suicide in Paris of Dominique Venner, a 78-year-old right-wing French historian and essayist, has stirred a strong political reaction in the country. Some 1,500 visitors were cleared out of Notre Dame Cathedral after a man put a letter on the altar of the 850-year-old monument Tuesday, then pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head, three days after a law legalizing ...
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Paris has one of the largest and most emulated bike-sharing systems in the world
Paris is becoming ever more eco-friendly with bike-sharing becoming the major fad of daily commuters and public transport users. The system is so popular, major expansion plans have been announced.
Paris is already home to the largest bicycle-sharing system in the world, but the corporation set up to manage the city’s most eco-friendly form of public transport, Velib, has extensive expansion plans for the network, which is also one of the most copied in the world. Read more
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