To lose our cinemas would bring me to tears
Trips to the silver screen are where memories are made – so beware the threat of Covid rules, and of streaming services on the march
Salvatore Cascio and Philippe Noiret discover the beauty of film in Cinema Paradiso
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It feels like I’ve spent a lot of my time in cinemas in tears. Of course it is easier to cry in the cinema than during almost any other cultural experience because people are rustling boxes of popcorn and jiggling ice about in oversized cups, which covers the sniffles, plus it’s really, really dark. Occasionally, my emotions have been exposed, like the time when my friend Rebecca and I wailed out loud over Daniel Day-Lewis saying goodbye to Joan Allen on a beach in The Crucible, and everyone laughed at us.
Gérard Depardieu s sordid, troubling past is finally catching up with him
The thuggish actor who once boasted of plenty of rapes, too many to count faces fresh accusations. Will his French defenders stand by him?
Gérard Depardieu photographed in Marseille, 2018
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Before Gérard Depardieu was anybody, he was a teenage rent boy and petty thief who robbed fresh graves to steal jewellery and shoes. He lifted the lid on this appalling childhood in his autobiography, That’s the Way it Was, published in 2014, which made his upbringing in the town of Châteauroux in Central France sound like the early chapters of an Émile Zola novel.
French actor Gerard Depardieu has been charged for the alleged rape and sexual assault of a 22-year-old actress at his Paris mansion in 2018, it was reported last night.
French actor Gerard Depardieu has been charged for the alleged rape and sexual assault of a 22-year-old actress at his Paris mansion in 2018, it was reported last night.
French film giant Gerard Depardieu has been charged with rape and sexual assault, a judicial source told AFP on Tuesday, the latest in a string of such allegations against prominent figures in France.