Now, the Breton tides have turned. Take the critical and commercial successes of
Lupin and
Call My Agent! The former, which premiered on Netflix earlier this month, is projected to hit 70 million views in its first 28 days, surpassing the latter, whose fourth and final season dropped on the streaming platform last week, has been around since 2015 but is finally getting the international attention it deserves.
The acclaim is warranted; these two shows are excellent. Plus there s also the perpetual American obsession with all things French and especially anything with Paris as a backdrop, which is even more wanderlust-inducing during this era of quarantine and border lockdowns. This truth undoubtedly explains
Two years ago, she was talent-spotted by a London management company.
This morning she was announced as music director of the Opéra national de Lorraine, starting in September.
She will conduct there ten weeks a year. Marta says: ‘It fills me with pride that I will get to shape the cultural life of a place that was strongly shaped by a former Polish king, Stanisław Leszczyński. I hope to give the best possible representation of Polish culture here in Nancy.’
Before joining Bournemouth Marta was a singer in Vienna’s Arnold Schoenberg Chorus.
News of her appointment is making headlines in Poland.
It’s become a rite of passage for the French film star: you have achieved arthouse immortality, won an armful of Césars and been pontificated about by critics in black polo-necks all that’s left is
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In France, the hit Netflix series Call My Agent! is called Dix Pour Cent in reference to the fee charged by French cinema agents. For those in the know, the name says it all. For others, like me, the reference was opaque at first, but it sent the message that this is a show – unlike others representing a cliched take on French life, such as Emily in Paris – that positions itself as an insider’s peek into the capital and its movie business.
The many cameos from A-list actors playing themselves – with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sigourney Weaver lined up to appear in season four; Weaver called the series “a love letter to the business” – similarly underlines the show’s proximity to the authentic professional world, something that is subtly shown, too, through its clothes.