France really comes alive in the summer, with events and festivals great and small taking place the length and breadth of the country - here's our pick for the summer of 2023.
As Jean Renoir’s piercing satire La Règle du jeu arrives on Blu-ray, we celebrate the golden age of French cinema between the coming of sound and the outbreak of World War II.
France really comes alive in the summer, with events and festivals great and small taking place the length and breadth of the country - here's our pick for the summer of 2023.
Barry Humphries has died at the age of 89. This was his last diary for The Spectator in our 2022 Christmas issue. F.Scott Fitzgerald declared in an excellent late story that ‘the second half of life is a long process of getting rid of things’. It is certainly what I am striving to do. I