Journalist, writer & broadcaster.
📚LEFT BANK, Arts, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950 (Bloomsbury)
📚NOTRE-DAME, The Soul of France (OneWorld)
✍️ 🎤 📺 UK and French politics, Arts and History
Agnes C. Poirier
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RIP David Hockney
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My two favourite films at #Cannes win the Palme d’Or and the Grand Prix : Fjord by Cristian Mungiu and Minotaur by Andrey Zvyagintsev !
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My Notebook in the Times
#Cannes #Fjord #Minotaur #LAbandon #GabrielAttal
She was incredibly charming. RIP Nathalie Baye. One of my favourite films with her is Truffaut’s Day For Night (La nuit américaine)
Here is the poster for the 79th edition of The Cannes Film Festival 2026. Thelma and Louise… #Cannes2026
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Cannes is a beautiful, gruelling circus. I wouldn’t quit it for anything | Agnès Poirier www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As the #Venice #Biennale approaches in less than three weeks, the controversy over #Russia’s participation intensifies, with #Finland pushing harder.
Two winning films ask what happens when institutions designed to protect us become consumed by their own self-preservation
The 2026 edition of the Cannes film festival suggests that Europe’s defining cultural figure may no longer be a rooted national artist but a divided intellectual speaking in several historical languag...
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Agnes C. Poirier
Agnes C. Poirier
The festival is a celebration of cinema and a frantic trade show all at once. After 25 years, I can’t help but go back, says critic Agnès Poirier
