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10 Chinese Dramas for Beginners

My Story of You, a series for 40-somethings Copyright @Iqiyi Genre: Slice of Life Number of Episodes : 48 Year: 2018 This series, taken from an autobiographical novel, tells 20 years of a man's life: From the end of college, his first jobs, to meeting the woman of his life, his personal d ...

26
June
2022

Reading: 5 Things to Know About the New Romance Genre

These are love stories spiced with eroticism. Unlike the old-fashioned romance novels, contemporary romance or New Romance is a literary genre that includes an erotic dimension, with explicit sex scenes. The novel "Fifty Shades of Grey," released in 2012, is generally considered the archetype of t ...

09
Nov
2023

The commedia dell'arte: origins and characters

What is commedia dell'arte? The commedia dell'arte is a genre of popular theater that appeared in Italy around 1550. This theatrical genre is characterized by stereotypical characters and slapstick situations. With the exception of love roles, all actors wear masks. The Italian expression 'comme ...

23
Feb
2011

Christmas TV movies: 5 unusual things you don't know about these films

1- They are filmed in the middle of summer. Genre governed by (almost) immutable rules, Christmas TV movies are most often snowy romances... with artificial snow! The United States is by far the leading producer of this type of seasonal romantic comedies, exporting them worldwide, even to countrie ...

08
Dec
2020

The Code: 5 good reasons to watch the new France 2 legal series

1- This series was written by the same team as Chérif The creators of the new series The Code wanted to renew the codes of the court series genre. Lionel Olenga and Stéphane Drouet, who worked on the police series Chérif for 6 seasons, teamed up with Cécile Even to write this new fiction for ...

30
Nov
2021

Cinema: 5 things you probably didn't know about Warner.

g one of the most famous, Rio Bravo, with Howard Hawks and John Wayne in 1959. Throughout its history, Warner Bros. Pictures has excelled in numerous genres: • science fiction with cult films such as Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (released in 1968), Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, and ...

13
June
2023

Master Crimes: What's the Verdict on TF1's Police Series with Muriel Robin?

copy of the American series Murder, Master Crimes is worth a look. Unlike the American series to which it bears similarities, it falls more into the genre of French comedic crime drama. One of the comic elements of this fiction is based on a very special duo. Muriel Robin plays the role of a crimi ...

07
Nov
2023

Dungeons & Dragons: 5 Things You Might Not Know About This Mythical Game

ay Dungeons and Dragons around the world often don't know it, but at its inception, this game had a really bad reputation. In the 1970s, the fantasy genre was associated with counterculture. Much like metal music, this hobby attracted the ire of conservatives and American religious groups. This ga ...

23
Sep
2024

Jazz à Juan : a prestigious jazz festival

ent in its kind because of the talent of the artists and the diversity of the music that is represented. Not only does it host the biggest names in the genre but it also opens up to young artists and new music. From its inception, the Festival was intended to be innovative by hosting the very yo ...

24
June
2008

The Annecy International Animation Film Festival: an unmissable event

ion Film Festival has been the meeting place for all animation enthusiasts. It is indeed the perfect place to discover the latest masterpieces of the genre, meet renowned animators and young talents, or spot new trends... Initially held every two years, this event became annual in 1998. It now take ...

08
June
2010

Portraits: a photo festival in Vichy.

Vichy, new capital of portraiture. With this photographic event entitled Portraits, the city of Vichy aims to become a reference in the field. This summer event, exclusively dedicated to the art of portraiture, offers the public the opportunity to discover several free exhibitions. Various approa ...

19
July
2013

The Photoreporter Festival: unique exhibitions in Saint-Brieuc.

Presentation of this festival The Photoreporter Festival, created in 2012 in Saint-Brieuc, showcases the genre of photojournalism. Its first edition, organized in the fall of 2012, attracted nearly 80,000 visitors. For three weeks, it presents reportages brought back from all corners of the world ...

25
Oct
2013

The Lord of the Rings: 5 things to know about the Amazon Prime series

ous 8-season fantasy series is, no doubt, the model Amazon would like to emulate. Will its Lord of the Rings become like GOT a monument of the fantasy genre? Only time will tell... What is certain is that the American giant is not looking at the expense to stay in the race on the very competitive ...

09
Sep
2021

Jean-Claude Mourlevat: the first French author to win the Alma Prize

sh time and Space and evoke, in dreamlike and effective prose, such eternal questions as desire and love, vulnerability and war.' About her favorite genre, the author explains, 'What I love about stories, when they are successful, is their purity, their timelessness, their crafted nature. [...] T ...

28
Sep
2021

The Undoing: 5 good reasons to watch the new TF1 series

the guilt and innocence of this suspect brilliantly played by Hugh Grant. In short, The Undoing is a whodunit (who did it?) that the master of the genre Agatha Christie would have hailed for its audacity. 3- For its high-flying cast In this mini-series, the very well written characters are at ...

03
Jan
2022

Plus belle la vie: soon the end?

han three other daily dramas that compete with it: Demain nous appartient and Ici tout commence on TF1 and Un si grand soleil on France 2. If this genre once absent in France has developed so much, it is of course thanks to the phenomenon Plus belle la vie! But its competitors have also helped ...

08
Mar
2022

Gardening: caring for a tillandsia in 5 questions

1- Where to install this plant ? In the genre of Tillandsias, or daughters of the air, you're spoiled for choice with nearly 400 species of plants with leathery, evergreen foliage. These plants from the Bromeliad family, the same family as the pineapple, are quite unusual in that they don't need ...

25
Mar
2022

The Lost Symbol: a series adapted from Dan Brown on M6

e probably seen this 38-year-old actor in Succession on OCS or Designated Survivor on Netflix. Despite the differences with the novel, fans of the genre will be pleased to find all the spellbinding mystical universe specific to this writer. The plot, which takes place in Washington, D.C., concern ...

11
Aug
2022

Singing: what is gospel music?

A musical genre born in the African-American community Gospel music, which can be described as popular religious singing with musical accompaniment, originated in the African American evangelical Christian community in the early 20th century. This musical genre has its origins in three centuries ...

27
Sep
2022

Hokusai: 5 things to know about the famous Japanese artist

ow it, but erotic scenes are one of the major themes of Japanese ukiyo-e prints, along with landscapes or portraits of women. The greatest artists of the genre have tried their hand at it, including Hokusai and Hiroshige, best known for their views of Japan. Yet, these sometimes very crude drawin ...

06
Oct
2022