The ObserverDrama filmsReviewBased on a bestselling novel, this tale of a middle-aged author who returns to his home town to reconnect with his romantic past is oddly insular and fussy
A celebrated middle-aged author returns, for the first time in 35 years, to his home town in the Cognac-producing region in south-western France. Stéphane (Guillaume de Tonquédec) has been asked to give a keynote speech, but his motives for accepting the invitation have more to do with reconnecting with his own romantic past. Read More...
‘It says a lot that, at 69, I can still wear a jumpsuit on stage.’ Photograph: Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo‘It says a lot that, at 69, I can still wear a jumpsuit on stage.’ Photograph: Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock PhotoThe look I loveFashionThe rock legend on the look that defined her in the 70s – and is still going strong todayThis is the look I wore when I was 23, when Can the Can [Quatro’s second solo single and her first to reach No 1 in the UK] was about to be released. Read More...
Art theftNapoleon robbed it, Calvinists nearly burned it, the Nazis were desperate to own it, and part of it has been missing for 80 years. Noah Charney on the world's most tangled art heistJust about everything bad that could happen to a painting has happened to Hubert and Jan van Eyck's Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (also known as the Ghent Altarpiece). It's almost been destroyed in a fire, was nearly burned by rioting Calvinists, it's been forged, pillaged, dismembered, censored, stolen by Napoleon, hunted in the first world war, sold by a renegade cleric, then stolen repeatedly during the second world war, before being rescued by The Monuments Men, miners and a team of commando double-agents. Read More...
