Tag: Blow-Up
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Actress and singer Jane Birkin dies age 76
Birkin’s death has shocked her adopted France over the long Bastille Day weekend.Anglo-French actress, director and singer Jane Birkin has died at the age of 76.Born and brought up in the UK, Birkin rose to fame in France in the 1960s with a parallel acting and singing career and became a global fashion icon and…
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Jane Birkin, British-French Actor and Singer, Dies at 76
Jane Birkin, the beloved British-French actor and singer who spent most of her life in France and is known for a tumultuous relationship with French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, died on Sunday at her home in Paris, according to Le Parisien newspaper. She was 76.No cause of death has yet been confirmed.Birkin was best known internationally…
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Clare Peploe obituary
Screenwriter and film-maker best known for Couples and Robbers, Besieged and La LunaWhen the film director Michelangelo Antonioni visited the London party circuit in the mid-1960s in preparation for his thriller Blow-Up, he met a woman named Chloe Peploe; she informed him that the person he should really speak to was her sister, Clare, who…
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Streaming: curate your own Cannes film festival
With this year’s festival called off, a trawl through past winners of the Palme d’Or yields streaming gems from Brief Encounter to Blow-Up, The Leopard to The SquareBring out your tiniest violins: in a normal year I’d be writing this column from the balmy French Riviera, with a glass of rosé at my side, amid…