Welcome to this Special Edition of Talking Movies, where we look back at some of the highlights from this year s cannes film festival. The films that got festival goers talking. If i heard films that got festival goers talking. Ifi heard that films that got festival goers talking. If i heard that a film went to cannes, i was curious about it. Clever satire from sweden called the square, and russian relations in loveless. And some of the pressing issues of the day. Cinema is about life, and right now, like us to model is. Plus the row over netflix showing its films at the festival. When netflixs name appeared, there we re when netflixs name appeared, there were boos. And we look back at cannes through the decades. All that on this Special Cannes Edition of Talking Movies. Talking movies. It proceeded as normal this year, but there was heightened security. The mood was subdued and a little tense after the manchester bombing. Festival goers still thronged, beggars were eaten, and espresso
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Poland s Beloved Valentine
•Basia Syzdlowski FRYDERYK FRANCISZEK CHOPIN was born in Poland in 1810. This is how his name was recorded in the parish ledger and its Polish spelling is the title of the recent mega biography of Chopin by Allen Walker. Chopin has come to symbolize a nation, says Walker, and he is Poland s best known son.
When Chopin left Poland at the age of 16 to tour Europe with friends and a chaperone, he undoubtedly thought he would return. Political unrest and revolutions in Europe kept him from returning and eventually he became a Polish emigre in exile until he died in Paris in 1849.