i love the wayjeunet is always dressing amelie in red. cinema. you've got this convergence of a genius, like a director, jean—pierre jeunet, and an actress like audrey tautou. jean—pierre jeunet is a master of the whimsical and the fantastical. he studied animation, and i think that's really, really evident in his body of work. so much in montmartre has become famous because of amelie, including here. montmartre has always been an artistic quarter, but amelie — set at the beginning of the 21st century in these dazzling, hot, sunny parisian days, all these scenes set around sacre—coeur — and i think, in cinema, it gave paris a whole new lease of life just because of the romantic, idyllic, idealistic way thatjean—pierre jeunet filmed amelie. it does belong to a different era, even though it still feels contemporary enough for us all to relate to. well, we're going to finish with another picture that was emblematic of the french new wave. it's an adult love story, rather eerily set in a city devastated by an atomic bomb. it's a movie that ma

so much of montmartre has become famous because of amelie, including here.has always been an artistic quarter, but amelie, set at the beginning of the 21st century in these dazzling hot, sunny parisian days, all these scenes set around sacre—coeur. and i think in cinema, it gave paris a whole new lease of life just because of the romantic, idyllic, idealistic way that jean—pierrejeunet filmed amelie. another great moment of 2024 for me was at the venice film festival, when i met the celebrated director pedro almodovar. he had made his first film in the english language, the room next door. even though it deals with a hard topic, he does it with his customary flourishes of colour and humour. being close — in the room next door, so to speak — as a terminally ill person chooses the time of their dying, is the subject of oscar—winning spanish director pedro almodovar�*s latest film. tilda swinton plays martha... grunts in frustration. ..a journalist with incurable cancer. and julianne moore is the friend, ingrid, who is asked to accompany her on what martha want