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Rungano Nyoni: "Trauma is minding your business and then there’s a body lying next to you"

Dec 1, 2024 | a-rabbitsfoot.com | Kitty Grady |Lucy Davies |Chris Cotonou |Tobias Grey

Rungano Nyoni discsusses the origins and inspirations of her second feature, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, which took home the prize for Best Film in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. “Film is about making things tangible, right? Like how do you deal with your past? Why do you stumble across it on a dark road?” The Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni is talking to me about the opening sequence of her second feature On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.
Isabelle Huppert: ‘Acting is a very simple thing for me’

Oct 12, 2024 | ft.com | Tobias Grey

Isabelle Huppert’s method for getting into character is simple: find the right hair and the rest will follow.
Filmmaker Cédric Kahn on The Goldman Case: ‘When you examine a justice system it quickly becomes political’

Sep 5, 2024 | ft.com | Tobias Grey

The French filmmaker Cédric Kahn was a teenager when he first discovered Dim Memories of a Polish Jew Born in France on his parents’...
The Young Wealth Trend: Why Teenagers Are Starting Businesses - Air M…

Aug 10, 2024 | archive.ph | John Ficarra |Tobias Grey |Harry Seymour |Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook

Entrepreneurial teenagers are swapping traditional after-school activities for side hustles, from content editing to crypto investing Every day after school, 14-year-old Hadiya Ali, who lives in Lahore, Pakistan, gets to work. First up is homework. Then, it’s on to her agency, for which she creates Instagram reels, TikTok videos, and YouTube shorts for clients looking to raise engagement across their social-media platforms.
The Echoes by Evie Wyld — ghosts of family trauma

Jul 18, 2024 | ft.com | Tobias Grey

The wit of Evie Wyld is on sparkling display in the first line of her unsettling fourth novel, The Echoes.
The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma — the brutal reality of war

May 30, 2024 | ft.com | Tobias Grey

Chigozie Obioma’s first two novels, The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019), both shortlisted for the Booker Prize,...
Maïwenn on the nuances of playing Jeanne du Barry to Johnny Depp’s Louis XV

Apr 6, 2024 | ft.com | Tobias Grey

I can’t help but feel like a bit of an interloper as I sneak glances at Maïwenn shovelling forkfuls of salad into her mouth.
The Wizard of the Kremlin — what really drives Putin?

Oct 17, 2023 | ft.com | Tobias Grey

Recent sightings of the 71-year-old Vladimir Putin tend to be described in the hushed tones of a concerned matron.
The Wide World — a sweeping saga of family fortunes and ill-gotten gains

Aug 16, 2023 | ft.com | Tobias Grey

In the 19th century, Honoré de Balzac initiated the trend for capacious interlinked novels depicting the peccadilloes of French bourgeois...
Painting in the Age of Photography

Jun 2, 2023 | wsj.com | Tobias Grey

The growing prevalence of photographic images in the first half of the 20th century persuaded many painters to shift away from representing reality and to focus instead on expressing their own emotional reactions to the world. That shift is dramatized in “Capturing the Moment: A Journey Through Painting and Photography,” opening June 13 at Tate Modern in London, which explores the myriad ways contemporary painting and photography have influenced each other.