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Jimmy Robert: the artist as a material

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Jimmy Robert’s work exists in a space where video, sculpture, dance, and installations meet. He even uses himself as one of his materials. The Guadeloupean-born, Brussels-based artist joins us as his new show "Langue Matérielle" opens at Paris’s Jeu de Paume gallery.

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We also head to the UK where London Fashion Week keeps up its eccentric reputation with a mixture of fashion flashmobs, and Mork and Mindy. And in Germany, our reporters look back on the latest Berlinale film festival, and we tell you who won the much sought-after “Golden Bear”.

Slideshow: Behind the scenes
Too Gay For Hollywood?
21/05/2013 - CULTURE

Too Gay For Hollywood?

The film that was said to be too gay for Hollywood has reached the Croisette in Cannes. We look at Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic "Behind the Candelabra", starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon. Also on the show: Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad on his new film "Omar", hope in the Middle East and Cannes.
Flops, tramps and cartoonists in Cannes
20/05/2013 - CULTURE

Flops, tramps and cartoonists in Cannes

We check out French director Guillaume Canet's English language debut "Blood Ties", starring Marion Cotillard and Clive Owen. Also, Eve Jackson meets "Borgman" director Alex Van Warmerdam, whose film is the first Dutch competition entry in 38 years. And Cat Nicholson speaks to the Cannes cartoonists who want to change the world.
100 Years of Indian Film!
20/05/2013 - CULTURE

100 Years of Indian Film!

Today we wish happy birthday to Indian cinema! Eve Jackson speaks to the directors Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar and Anurag Kashyap, who have come together to make the anthology film Bombay Talkies, plus a Cannes day in the life of an Indian superstar.
On the shrink's couch in Cannes
19/05/2013 - CULTURE

On the shrink's couch in Cannes

Benicio Del Toro gets on the couch in Arnaud Desplechin's psychotherapy drama, Jimmy P. Also on the programme, Israeli director Ari Folman talks about his trippy, part live action, part animation film 'The Congress.' Plus Cat Nicholson shows us Cannes by night.
The gritty side of Cannes
18/05/2013 - CULTURE

The gritty side of Cannes

Cannes cannot exist on glamour alone and in today's show we talk about two competition films that look at the darker side of life. Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi talks about 'The Past' while we also dissect the extreme and raw violence in the Mexican movie 'Heli.'

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