Lost In Frenchlation

The History of Queer French Cinema with David A. GerstnerThis June, Paris gets a queer‑film takeover: David A. Gerstner is guest‑curating the Lost in Frenchlation screening series across art‑house theaters for Pride Month — all films shown with English subtitles. Want the perfect primer before you dive in? This episode is it.More Info on Tickets and Program HERE.David A. Gerstner is our brilliant guide: a published historian of cinema, professor at CUNY, and the author of multiple books and scholarly articles on film and queer culture. His sharp knowledge, warm humor, and infectious enthusiasm turn film history into a lively, unmissable ride.Hosts Alex Brook Lynn (ARBL Murray) and Manon Kerjean sit down with David to trace the stories of queer filmmakers and films in France across the 20th century. Read David's short essay on this series here.David A. Gerstner is a Professor of Cinema Studies at the City University of New York, Chevalier d’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and a prolific author of essays and writings on cinema, and queer culture. He is the author of 'Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship (2023)' and 'Christophe Honore: A Critical Introduction.' David's sharp knowledge, warm humor, and infectious enthusiasm make film history feel like the best kind of story, told by a friend in a cozy cafe somewhere..From the Episode:Notable filmmakers: Germaine Dulac, Christophe Honoré, Jean Epstein, Jacqueline AudryDavid's short essay on the series: Queer French Cinema: A Historical SketchA few of David's books on Thrift BooksFor further reading on Queer culture during the Vichy occupation of France David recommends:Denis Quinqueton. ÉTUDE Loi du 6 août 1942.Richard Plant. The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals.

On this episode of Lost in Frenchlation, today we are talking to Alice Wincour who directed 'Couture' starring Angelina Jolie. It’s an intimate and artful look at some of the women behind Paris Fashion Week.Angelina Jolie plays a women named Maxine who is an indie horror director. Her career is about to take off, she is directing a film for a big Fashion House during Paris Fashion Week and has more opportunities on the horizon. She is suddenly diagnosed with a fast moving cancer. As the week progresses Maxine's story intersects with a model from South Sudan, a make up artist struggling to find her place, and a seamstress in love with the art of costume. This episode is hosted by Alex Brook Lynn and Manon Kerjean.This is the 2nd time Alice has been on the show. Check out her last episode here:For the film Revoir Paris about the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. https://rss.com/podcasts/lost-in-frenchlation/2463061/Couture on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34688195/Find out more about the cinema club Lost In Frenchlation on https://lostinfrenchlation.com/You can listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts and SpotifyDonate to World Radio Paris Here: https://worldradioparis.org/donate/

In this episode of Lost in Frenchlation, hosts ARBL Murray (Alex Brook Lynn) and Manon Kerjean sit down with filmmaker Vladimir Rodionov at the Luminor Theater during a special Valentine’s Day screening of his romantic comedy Anges & Cie (Angels & Company / Angels Inc.).Set in a world where everyone has a personal angel, the film treats love like a workplace: angels are assigned “clients,” they follow you through every awkward, intimate moment, and they try (sometimes badly) to steer your life from above. At the center are two almost-lovers who keep colliding and missing each other, while their angels clash like rivals in a buddy comedy. But what happens when a few angels go off-script and decide to let love get messy on its own?Vladimir breaks down the long road of making a first feature (nearly a decade from idea to release), why he’s obsessed with “high concept” premises you can sum up in one sentence (“what if angels were real?”), and how he built a world where angels operate like a bureaucratic company: hovering behind you, influencing choices, and sometimes giving truly terrible advice.The conversation goes deeper than the rom-com label: intuition vs. destiny, “signs” that kept him going while the film was hard to finance/cast, whether a darker sequel could exist, and how love can be a surprise that pulls you outside your bubble. They also talk about modern romance in the age of apps (love as an “algorithm” vs. chaos), how movies shape the way we understand love, and what French cinema offers beyond couple-dom: friendship, empathy, and stories for anyone spending Valentine’s Day solo.Please consider donating to World Radio Paris so we can continue to make these radio shows and podcasts https://worldradioparis.org/donate/For more information on Lost in Frenchlation, visit https://lostinfrenchlation.com

Today on Lost in Frenchlation we talk to the renowned director Diane Kurys about her most recent film Moi qui t’aimais (Me who loved you.) Diane has had a truly incredible career. In this episode she shares with us the story of her parents falling in love as Jews in Europe during the holocaust, how that influenced her films about the nuances of love and commitment, and of course we talk about what it was like to write and direct a film about the complicated marriage of two French Entertainment Icons, Simone Signoret and Yves Montand.Moi qui t’aimais is the story of a famous love affair between French entertainment royalty: Simone Signoret and Yves Montand. They had a wild and deep, but also fraught love. They were married from the 50s until her death in 1981. During that time they became one of the most influential couples in France.Find out more about the cinema club Lost In Frenchlation on https://lostinfrenchlation.com/You can listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts and SpotifyDonate to World Radio Paris Here: https://worldradioparis.org/donate/

On this episode of Lost in Frenchlation, we talk to Suzanne Lindon and Paul Kircher about what it was like to star in the new film by Cedric Klapisch, La Venue de l’avenir (French Title), Colors of Time (English Title). As always ARBL Murray (Alex Brook Lynn), and Manon Kerjean interviewed the pair as their film screened at Le Balzac Cinema during a Lost in Frenchlation event.Suzanne and Paul share about what it was like to embody characters from the turn of the 19th century in Paris, as the modern city began to emerge. We talk about art, life, emotional scenes, and legacy. La Venue de l’avenir (Colors of Time) is about four cousins who inherit a house in rural Normandy. They are encouraged to sell it to make way for a large development but after they visit the house they begin to discover the story of their ancestors, notably a young woman named Adèle (Suzanne Lindon). They trace her story through Paris as the city is really starting to embrace the modern age. Both Paul and Suzanne are born and raised Parisians and recommend the film Le Péril Jeune (Good Old Daze) and a quintessential coming of age film about young Parisians.Find out more about the cinema club Lost In Frenchlation on https://lostinfrenchlation.com/You can listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

In this Episode of Lost in Frenchlation we talk to Laura Piani, the writer and director of ‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,’ a new romantic comedy about a woman who lives between the pages and struggles to finish her own story. Laura shares with us why she decided to direct, what inspired this story, and how she chose to show the work of Jane Austen in a new light.We delve into some of the autobiographical elements of the film: The main character works at the famed Shakespeare and Co. as did Laura herself– and discuss the male archetypes in the films wonderfully funny love triangle, and the best book Laura ever read. For more information on Lost in Frenchlation, the cinema club click here:https://lostinfrenchlation.com/The hosts for this episode are Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray (Alex Brook Lynn). This episode was recorded and produced by World Radio Paris.

n this Episode of Lost in Frenchlatin we talk with Global Cinema expert Dina Iordanova about her 2016 book Cinemas of Paris.We talk about how Paris is a “never ending film festival,” and why movie going in the city of light is unlike anywhere else.We talk about the wealth of movie theaters and why they are all different. How some have gone to extreme lengths to keep these cinemas open and some have been saved by the city itself.Dina Iordanova is Emeritus Professor in Global Cinema at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. A native of Bulgaria, she has worked around the world for more than three decades. She is a film historian of transnational cinema and has particular interest in the study of film festivals and global film circulation.In this Episode We Discuss:Cinemas:Le Brady, Cinema La Clef, La Pagode, Espace Saint-Michel and many others.You can read more of Dina’s Work here:The Complicated History of Women at Cannes Film Festival (2021)Cannes Is Not A Film Festival: It Is a Club for Insiders (2018)For more information about Lost in Frenchlation and to buy tickets go to:https://lostinfrenchlation.com

On this episode Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray sit down with director Nicolas Peduzzi to talk about his latest documentary film Etat Limité or “On the Edge.” The Film follows a young psychiatrist Jamal during his daily rounds at the well-known Hospital Beaujon on the edge of Paris. Jamal has to navigate time constraints and budgetary restrictions whilst trying to care for his patients as best he can. Shot over the corse of 3 years, Etat Limité is an incredible portrait of the compassion of a young doctor and limitations of the healthcare system. Nicolas Peduzzi is a French actor and director. He studied theater and cinema in Italy and New York. His first feature documentary, Southern Belle, a portrait of real-life 26 year-old Texan Taelor Ranzau, was released in 2018, and won the Grand Prix of the FID Marseille in 2019. In 2021. His next film Ghost Song portrayed young people in Houston living on the “fringes” and fighting for survival. Etat Limité is his latest documentary. You can find him on instagram @nicolaspeduzziFilm Recommendations from this episode:On the Adamant: (Sur L’Adamant) 2023 by Nicolas Philibert – Follows patients and caregivers at a psychiatric centre with a unique floating structure located in the middle of the Seine river in central Paris.Ětra Là: 2012 by Régis Sauder. A story about the psychiatrists, nurses or occupational therapists at the Baumettes detention center in Marseille who receive inmates and help them with their mental illness. The work is hard and thankless but for these workers it is a necessity to participate in the helping of those who suffer.Opening Song in the Film:Evile Grimace: Pour Mes GensFor more information about Lost in Frenchlation and to buy tickets go to:https://lostinfrenchlation.com/

On this episode of Lost in Frenchlation, Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray talk to the crew at the Luminor Cinema, one of the oldest movie houses in Paris, about what it’s like to run an art-house theater. From the Paris projectionist shortage to the regulations for film distribution, the story of the Luminor touches all facets of film culture in Paris and, more broadly, France. Andy Sellitto is the cinema manager, and Anna Dichio coordinates events as well as heads the awareness campaign to Save The Luminor. They reveal for us what it’s like to run this place, in one of the most famous neighborhoods in the world (The Marais), while fighting for the attention of cinema-goers and dodging building owners who want to shut it all down.For see what is playing at the Luminor go to:https://www.luminor-hoteldeville.comFor more information about Lost in Frenchlation and to buy tickets go to:https://lostinfrenchlation.comMore Information on World Radio Paris

In this episode ARBL Murray (Alex Brook Lynn) and Manon Kerjean talk to director Simon Bouisson about his latest film DRONE, his past work as an interactive filmmaker, building stories around the many layers of truth behind emerging technologies, the male gaze, making electronic music with composer Paul Saban, and using Artificial Intelligence in cinema. We also find out about what it was like to work with the drone racing community and the famous drone pilot, Benoit Finck. Drone is the story of Émilie, a young woman who has been accepted into an elite architecture program at one of Paris’ top schools. To support herself and her education she works as a cam girl on the side. She enters into a strange relationship with a drone that watches her from her window at night. At first the drone seems to be a protector and friend but soon things turn very sinister and she has to uncover the truth about where this mysterious drone comes from and who is behind it. Simon Bouisson is a graduate of the prestigious La Fémis film school in Paris. After graduating he directed documentaries while exploring the possibilities of interactive filmmaking. His first feature narrative “Wei or Die”allowed the audience to switch between many points of view running simultaneously from a cell phone to a police body cam. Then he made “République,” a film about a terrorist attack. With an app the viewer could slide through three running narratives as single points of view or in split screen. He went on to work with the idea of “slow TV” n a 9 hour experience for France 4 in which a man walks forward around a reversed Tokyo with all its inhabitants moving backward. In 2020 he started directing a more linear type of series called STALK playing with the themes that are also present in DRONE: the digital world, its opportunities, its dangers, and how human nature can become warped by being so “online.” Most recently he has been working on a feature film utilizing AI technology. You can read about it here (in French). This episode was recorded at The Luminor CinemaFor more information about Lost in Frenchlation and to buy tickets go to:https://lostinfrenchlation.com/

In this episode Yannick Champion-Osselin & Manon Kerjean interview Sionann O’Neill & Joan Lagache, the two translators for ‘Anatomy of a Fall.’ The thriller that was lauded internationally for its use of linguistics as a plot device. ‘Anatomy of a Fall‘ follows Sandra, a German writer, her French husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, the police question whether he committed suicide or was killed, and Sandra becomes the main suspect.Little by little the trial becomes not just an investigation of the circumstances of Samuel’s death, but an unsettling psychological journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel’s conflicted relationship. The film received the Palme d’or in Cannes last year, a Bafta, Golden Globes, one oscar, and six César, among other prizes.

Could you tell me how your favorite film tastes? This week we talk with Emily Neff who makes custom ice cream flavors in Paris about making a flavor for the beach films of Éric Rohmer. Emily unpacks the allure of these films as summertime staples of French cinematic culture while Manon Kerjean and ARBL Murray (Alex Brook Lynn)ask questions trying to get to the heart of what these movies taste like as ice cream.I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!To Donate to World Radio Paris Go To:https://worldradioparis.org/donate/For More information on Lost in Frenchlation https://lostinfrenchlation.comIN THIS EPISODE:Movies We Talk About:Summer’s Tale/Conte d’été (1996) -Éric RohmerClair’s Knee/Le Genou de Claire (1970) -Éric RohmerThe Green Ray/Le Rayon vert (1986) – Éric RohmerBenedetta (2021)- Paul VerhoevenSimple Comme Sylvain/The Nature of Love (2023)- Monia CHOKRILe Deuxième Acte/The Second Act (2024) – Quentin Dupieux Call Me by your name (2017)– Luca GuadagninoLa Piscine (1969) – Jacques DerayIce Cream Shop Recommendations in Paris:Folderol10 Rue du Grand Prieuré, 75011 Paris, FranceJJ Hings 46 Rue Bichat, 75010 Paris, France(@jjhings)Movie Theaters in Paris We Discuss:Summer Program Eric Rohmer:https://www.epeedebois.com/L’Arlequin76 Rue de Rennes, Paris 75006https://dulaccinemas.com/cinema/2625/l-arlequin/seancesA Few Good Reads on Éric Rohmer:New Yorker Article on Eric Rohmer’s Movie Music https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/eric-rohmers-movie-musicNew York Times Article on “Make This an ‘Eric Rohmer Summer.’https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/style/summer-fashion-eric-rohmer.htmlNew York Times review of Clair’s Knee in 1971https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/07/archives/-claires-knee-close-to-a-perfect-movie-claire-close-to-a-perfect.htmlRecorded for World Radio Paris at independent cinema Club de L’Étoile in Paris.

Produced by ARBL Murray for World Radio Paris, and recorded at independent cinema, Club de L’Étoile in Paris. French director Nora El Hourch speaks with ARBL Murray (Alex Brook Lynn) and Manon Kerjean about the making of her feature film, HLM Pussy. Centered around three girls in the Paris suburbs dealing with differences in class, race, and privilege – when a sexual assault occurs, they all grapple with how to deal with it in their own way and the different pressures it creates for each of them.