Episode 2: The Appointment

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Episode 2: The Appointment

Manuela's first week in Paris, and her Saturday with a special guest — me.

Animus Magazine

Dec 07, 2023

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As Manuela concluded her first week in Paris, chance brought us back together again when a last minute work opportunity allowed me to visit the French capital for a day.

In this episode, Manuela first talks about her experience seeing a film at le Christine Cinéma Club, in Saint Germain in the 6th arrondissement. This is one of the two repertory cinemas — together with Écoles Cinéma Club — owned by Isabelle Huppert and programmed by her son Lorenzo Chammah, and it lives up to this stellar pedigree.

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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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