Episode 1: Homecoming

The French Dispatch

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Episode 1: Homecoming

Manuela reports back from our hometown and the French cultural conversations she already got a sense of there

Animus Magazine

Nov 29, 2023

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Before she sets off to Paris, Manuela spends a week in Clermont-Ferrand, our hometown. In the centre of France, it is home to the world’s most important short film festival, and perhaps for this reason it boasts a great array of different cinemas showing the (many) films that get released in France every week.

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The French Dispatch

An investigation into the clichés about French culture and cinema.

In the first ever Animus podcast, founder and editor Elena Lazic in London, UK, talks to her sister Manuela once a week about the latter's experience of cinephilia in Paris, France — from the cost of cinemagoing to the differences in programming, from independent cinemas to multiplexes, etc.

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