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Sumitra Peries on ‘Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar’ Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
Sri Lanka’s internationally celebrated film maker and former Ambassador to France the francophone Sumitra Peries goes down Memory Lane this month on ‘Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar’.
Hosted on the YouTube channel of the Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, the show uploads at 7.00 pm on Wednesday 30 June.
Listen to her recall watching Roger Vadim shooting ‘And God Created Woman’ on the streets of St Tropez in the late 1950s with an “unknown actress” named Brigitte Bardot.
She also reminisces how, years later, on one of her many visits to France with husband Lester James, the couple were hosted at the family chateau in Lyon, owned by the Lumiere Brothers, Auguste and Louis, the inventors of the Cinematograph.
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French Embassy launches ‘Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar’
May, 6, 2021
‘Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar’, a Franco-Sri Lankan talk show, on its YouTube channel.
Hosted monthly, this show, as its name suggests, will be a ‘meeting place’ and highlight Franco-Sri Lankan bilateral ties across the spheres of language, culture, literature, diplomacy, music, art and travel etc through Francophone personalities.
The maiden edition, last Friday, featured the current Ambassador for France in Sri Lanka
H.E. Eric Lavertu who explored Franco-Sri Lankan bilateral ties over three centuries from Lieutenant Delanerolle, the French Ambassador to the Court of King Rajasinghe the 2
nd, down the years to the French Vice Consul Monsieur Paul Grimblot in 1859, to the present day.