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Jeanne Balibar & Rodolphe Burger: Le tour du monde

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Jeanne Balibar (b. 1968) is a French stage actress who has also featured in over 40 art house and independent films by directors such as Jacques Rivette, Olivier Assayas or Arnaud Desplechin since the beginning of the 1990s. A chance meeting with musician and singer Rodolphe Burger in 1999 sparked the start of a fruitful musical ... [Continue Reading]

Julie Delpy: A waltz for a night

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Before Sunset (2004) is an independent American film by Richard Linklater starring Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke. Both actors have also co-written the scenario. Having met nine years previously as students on a train journey between Budapest and Vienna but without exchanging addresses or phone numbers (see the 1995 prequel Before ... [Continue Reading]

Marissa Nadler: Thinking of you

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American folk singer and songwriter Marissa Nadler (b. 1981) hails from Massachusetts and has released six records under her own name to date. Rooted in the Americana movement, the singer is also strongly influenced by the music of Leonard Cohen (she has already covered or recorded "Famous Blue Raincoat", "Chelsea Hotel #2", ... [Continue Reading]

Lhasa: Rising

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After La Llorona (1997) and The Living Road (2003), Lhasa (2009) is the Mexican-American singer songwriter's eponymous third album. It was also to be her last one since the recording was released only a few months before her death in 2010 at the age of 37. Lhasa is a striking recording in the first place, but such sad ... [Continue Reading]

Lhasa: El desierto

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Born in the United States from American and Mexican parents, brought up through English and Spanish, travelling during her youth around North and Central America in a converted school bus, then spending her time between Canada and France, Lhasa de Sela (1972-2010) was a true wandering artist. "El Desierto" comes from her first ... [Continue Reading]