By Anne Brodie A radical feminist who changed the wine landscape for all time is celebrated in Thomas Napper’s Widow Clicquot. It’s 1840 in the fertile Champagne region of France. Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, played with authority by Haley Bennett is married to François (Tom Sturridge) …
Haley Bennett Plays Pioneer Who Single-Handedly Changed the Patriarchal French Wine Industry.
France’s Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot played by Haley Bennett was what we’d call today a radical feminist; she singlehandedly saved their vineyard when her husband died, grew it into a prestige brand that we still drink today, against the misogyny of the early 1800s. Her story is a triumph, …
The Spell of Exotica, or, a Good Djinn is Hard to Find, Workplace Blues, Godard, Momoa and Hitch!
By Anne Brodie Three Thousand Years of Longing, an ambitious fable based on Persian myths stars Tilda Swinton as Alithea, a prim, self-sufficient, and intellectual seeker, a narratologist who studies "all the stories in human history". She heads to Istanbul to speak at a story conference when a …