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Taylor Swift’s Wine Choice Shines a Spotlight on French Sancerre

This is Beirut, 17:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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A French winemaker has hailed the impact of his Sancerre appearing in Taylor Swift's latest documentary, which looks set to deepen America's love affair with the famed Loire appellation. A bottle of Sancerre by the Terres Blanches Domaine, which sells for around $40 in the United States, is glimpsed briefly by a mixing desk during episode five of ...

Chalamet Wins Best Actor at Critics Choice Awards, Boosting Oscars Bid

This is Beirut, 05/01 12:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Timothée Chalamet's Oscars campaign earned a major boost Sunday as he scooped the best actor prize for Marty Supreme at the Critics Choice Awards, the first major gala of this year's Hollywood awards season. He defeated rival Leonardo DiCaprio, whose raucous political thriller One Battle After Another took the night's top prize for best ...

George Clooney, Amal, and Twins Embrace French Citizenship

This is Beirut, 2025-12-30 15:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Hollywood star George Clooney has become French, along with his wife, Amal Alamuddin Clooney, and their two children, an official decree seen by AFP on Monday showed. The publication, in France's government gazette, confirms an ambition Clooney alluded to early in December when he hailed French privacy laws that keep his family shielded from ...

Oliver Ojeil: London Fashion Film Festival Winner

Lea Mehanna, 2025-12-21 17:00 - Reading : less than a minute

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On this episode of This Is Arts, film director and fashion photographer Oliver Ojeil talks about winning Best Story at the London Fashion Film Festival, storytelling through fashion photography, his work as a colorist on major productions like The Chosen, and his upcoming project starring L’Oréal ambassador Luma Grothe and Iacopo Ricciotti ...

Lancel’s B.B.: Parisian Glamour Inspired by Brigitte Bardot

Bélinda Ibrahim, 2025-12-14 18:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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How do you create a bag inspired by an icon like Brigitte Bardot? How can an accessory express the freedom, instinct, and tenderness she embodies? In embracing this challenge, Lancel was not aiming simply to produce a collaboration. The house sought to capture what Bardot represents in the collective imagination: a feeling of lightness, a sense of ...

Exhibition of Franco-Chinese Print Master Zao Wou-Ki Opens in Hong Kong

This is Beirut, 2025-12-13 12:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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An exhibition by the Franco-Chinese master printmaker Zao Wou-Ki opened in Hong Kong on Saturday, the first time his work has been on display in Asia. Hong Kong's M+ museum is hosting a collection of more experimental prints by the artist, who is considered a master of the lyrical abstraction movement and whose work regularly fetches vast sums at ...

The Path Is Made by Walking: How Each Step Creates the Way

David Sahyoun, 2025-12-10 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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Within this framework, the statement can be read as an ethic of movement, desire, and fruitful incompleteness. It suggests that truth is not a fixed object, but a direction; not a trophy, but a process. Likewise, failing is not a mistake, but the condition of one who is on the journey. As Franck Pavloff, French writer and psychologist, puts it in ...

Farewell to Martin Parr, Britain’s Relentless Chronicler in Colour

This is Beirut, 2025-12-08 15:40 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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Celebrated British documentary photographer Martin Parr has died at his home in the western English city Bristol, his foundation announced on Sunday. He was 73. Famous for his kitschy colour-saturated images capturing all aspects of life in Britain and beyond, Parr had a sharp eye for mundane oddities, whether it was the rich at play or ...

Mona Zaki Takes on Iconic Role of Umm Kulthum in ‘El Sett’ at Marrakech Film Festival

This is Beirut, 2025-12-08 12:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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It took Egyptian actor Mona Zaki more than a year's preparation to take on the hardest role of her career, the iconic singer Umm Kulthum, a legend in the Arab world. Marwan Hamed's El Sett (The Lady) premiered this week at the Marrakech International Film Festival, where Zaki told AFP about the daunting task she faced. "I was very scared at the ...

The Hermes Kelly: Elegance Inspired by Grace Kelly

Bélinda Ibrahim, 2025-12-07 18:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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In the exacting world of luxury leather goods, few pieces have left as profound a mark on collective memory as the Hermes Kelly. No other bag so effortlessly unites French equestrian heritage with international glamour. Originally created in the late 19th century as a “Haut à Courroies” for carrying saddles, it evolved in 1935 into the ...

Hollywood Awards Season Kicks Off: 'Sinners' Tops Critics’ Choice Nominations

This is Beirut, 2025-12-06 11:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Sinners topped the slate of nominees for the Critics’ Choice Awards in Los Angeles on Friday, as the movie industry's awards season starts to take shape. The acclaimed period horror drama, written and directed by Ryan Coogler, received a whopping 17 nods, including one for best picture, giving it early momentum as Hollywood gears up for the ...

Iran Filmmaker Panahi to Return Home Despite Prison Sentence

This is Beirut, 2025-12-05 19:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has said he plans to return to Iran despite being sentenced to a year in prison and a travel ban earlier this week, a report said Thursday. The 65-year-old is currently touring to promote his latest Oscar-nominated film, It Was Just an Accident, which won top prize at the Cannes Film Festival this ...

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