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‘Queen of rock ‘n’ roll’ Tina Turner dies at 83
Tina Turner, the American-born singer who left a hardscrabble farming group and abusive relationship to change into one of many high recording artists of all time, died on Wednesday on the age of 83. She died peacefully after an extended sickness in her house in Küsnacht close to Zurich, Switzerland, her consultant stated.
France’s Breillat again to breaking taboos at Cannes with ‘Final Summer season’
French director Catherine Breillat’s new erotic thriller “Final Summer season,” premiered on Thursday evening, bringing her taboo-breaking fashion to the Cannes Movie Competition. The movie follows Anne, a lawyer dwelling in Paris together with her husband and two daughters, when the son from her husband’s earlier marriage, 17-year-old Theo, comes to remain.
Wim Wenders will get uncommon Cannes movie double invoice: ‘It will likely be an expertise’
Most administrators can be thrilled to have one movie proven on the Cannes Movie Competition. Wim Wenders has two. “Good Days” – the German auteur’s tenth contender for the pageant’s high prize – is sharing the programme with a particular screening of “Anselm”, his 3D research of German artist Anselm Kiefer.
Italy’s Nanni Moretti directs, stars in Cannes entry ‘A Brighter Tomorrow’
Famend Italian director Nanni Moretti each directs and stars in “A Brighter Tomorrow,” which premiered worldwide on Wednesday and is his ninth movie to compete for the Cannes Movie Competition’s high prize. Up to now he has come house with the Palme d’Or solely as soon as – greater than 20 years in the past, with “The Son’s Room” in 2001.
Stars at Cannes take break from pink carpet to help AIDS analysis
Celebrities together with Queen Latifah, Jeffrey Wright and Heidi Klum escaped the Cannes Movie Competition’s crowded Croisette Boulevard for an evening to attend a fundraiser for AIDS analysis at a secluded luxurious lodge within the close by resort city of Antibes.
“I needed to be right here tonight as a result of I believe it is such a ravishing charity and simply to have the ability to do what I can,” stated Bebe Rexha, one of many stars performing on the Thursday occasion.
ABBA’s Bjorn and Benny dismiss Eurovision reunion in Sweden subsequent yr
ABBA members Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus have dismissed a reunion at subsequent yr’s Eurovision Track Contest of their native Sweden, which will even mark the fiftieth anniversary of when the supergroup received the competitors with “Waterloo”. In an interview with Britain’s BBC Newsnight on Wednesday night, the pair dominated out taking to the stage with fellow members Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad for the event.
Forty Cannes movie festivals considered via one photographer’s lens
When Eric Gaillard first went to {photograph} the Cannes Movie Competition in 1981, it was a smaller, extra intimate affair – the form of place the place you may see the greats from Hollywood’s Golden Age like Lauren Bacall or Ava Gardner wandering alone on the esplanade or having enjoyable on the seashore with out bodyguards. Returning for his fortieth time, Gaillard finds a distinct beast – bigger, extra multicultural, with extra restrictions on the place photographers can stand to attempt to get that viral snap or seize that second when a film star will get caught off-guard sharing an intimate smile, putting a goofy pose, or having a nasty hair day.
French delicacies competes on huge display at Cannes in ‘The Pot-au-Feu’
Stomachs have been certain to grouse on the Cannes Movie Competition premiere of “The Pot-au-Feu” on Wednesday, which brings Michelin star chef Pierre Gagnaire’s culinary skills to the massive display. The celebrities of the movie, French movie icon Juliette Binoche and Benoit Magimel, two-time winner of France’s Cesar award for greatest actor, have been on the pink carpet within the French Riviera metropolis together with Gagnaire and French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung.
Tina Turner honoured at lakeside Swiss house the place she died
Effectively-wishers gathered exterior the lakeside house of Tina Turner on Thursday to pay tribute to the music legend who had made Switzerland her house for almost three a long time. Flowers and playing cards lay exterior the home within the picturesque city of Kuesnacht, on the shore of Lake Zurich, the place Turner died on Wednesday on the age of 83.
Tributes salute Tina Turner’s music and resilience
Tina Turner, the American-born singer who left a farming group and abusive relationship to change into one of many high recording artists of all time, died on Wednesday on the age of 83. Under are reactions from musicians, actors and the White Home.
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