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![Brit drama 'Bird' brings grit, fantasy and tunes to Cannes](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/51/90/0f/Brit-drama--Bird--brings-grit--fant-509076_small.jpg)
Brit drama 'Bird' brings grit, fantasy and tunes t...
"Bird", featuring Barry Keoghan as a young dad, is an early frontrunner at the Cannes Film Festival with its tough but sweetly fan...
![Coppola shrugs off 'Megalopolis' cost as Stone and Gere hit Cannes](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/85/23/b7/Coppola-shrugs-off--Megalopolis--co-179141_small.jpg)
Coppola shrugs off 'Megalopolis' cost as Stone and...
Francis Ford Coppola shrugged off the vast fortune he personally risked on his highly polarizing new film "Megalopolis", as Emma S...
![Paul McCartney becomes UK's first billionaire musician](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/cc/c9/f9/Paul-McCartney-becomes-UK-s-first-b-197397_small.jpg)
Paul McCartney becomes UK's first billionaire musi...
Music icon Paul McCartney has become the UK's first billionaire musician, according to the Sunday Times Rich List published Friday...
![Coppola faces press after epic 'Megalopolis' splits Cannes](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/85/23/b7/Coppola-faces-press-after-epic--Meg-923799_small.jpg)
Coppola faces press after epic 'Megalopolis' split...
Francis Ford Coppola faces the press Friday after his epic "Megalopolis" sharply divided critics at the Cannes Film Festival, whil...
![Reddit gives OpenAI access to its wealth of posts](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/3d/75/52/Reddit-gives-OpenAI-access-to-its-w-610019_small.jpg)
Reddit gives OpenAI access to its wealth of posts
OpenAI will have access to Reddit data for training its artificial intelligence models and will put its technology to work at the...
![Exhibition traces Jewish origins of Hollywood](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/36/49/fd/Exhibition-traces-Jewish-origins-of-516988_small.jpg)
Exhibition traces Jewish origins of Hollywood
A new exhibition opening in California this weekend traces the Jewish origins of Hollywood.
![Cannes film shocks with fairy-tale horror on abortion](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/55/4a/af/Cannes-film-shocks-with-fairy-tale--578781_small.jpg)
Cannes film shocks with fairy-tale horror on abort...
An early entry in the Cannes film competition has taken Cannes spectators down a dark path of unwanted motherhood to a shop of hor...
![100 years of British royal photography goes on display in London](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/f4/bf/e1/100-years-of-British-royal-photogra-657881_small.jpg)
100 years of British royal photography goes on dis...
A new exhibition opens this week tracing a century of British royal portrait photography, from the official coronation image of Ki...
![Anya Taylor-Joy praises 'unbelievable' 'Mad Max' stunt team](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/98/5a/56/Anya-Taylor-Joy-praises--unbelievab-151791_small.jpg)
Anya Taylor-Joy praises 'unbelievable' 'Mad Max' s...
Anya Taylor-Joy, who plays the lead in the "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga", was full of praise Thursday for her stunt double in the acti...
![Monet painting fetches $35 million at New York auction](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/38/2f/d1/Monet-painting-fetches--35-million--714515_small.jpg)
Monet painting fetches $35 million at New York auc...
A Monet sold for nearly $35 million at auction Wednesday evening, Sotheby's said, marking a solid start to New York's spring art s...
![Coppola's epic 'Megalopolis' finally arrives at Cannes](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/60/50/d8/Coppola-s-epic--Megalopolis--finall-115617_small.jpg)
Coppola's epic 'Megalopolis' finally arrives at Ca...
Another masterpiece emerging from chaos, or just a chaotic mess? One of Hollywood's most mythologised directors, Francis Ford Copp...
![Violin village: Artisanal hub in Bolivian Amazon](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/24/e5/09/Violin-village--Artisanal-hub-in-Bo-771827_small.jpg)
Violin village: Artisanal hub in Bolivian Amazon
Nestled in the Bolivian Amazon, the small, majority-Indigenous town of Urubicha has become an unexpected hub of violin makers, als...
!['Mad Max' tears through Cannes with frenetic 'Furiosa'](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/f0/7b/8a/-Mad-Max--tears-through-Cannes-with-171757_small.jpg)
'Mad Max' tears through Cannes with frenetic 'Furi...
"Furiosa", the latest frenetically paced "Mad Max" action movie, zoomed into pole position among this year's blockbusters with a r...
![Ukraine film captures 'psychiatric disease' of war](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/6c/85/bc/Ukraine-film-captures--psychiatric--157917_small.jpg)
Ukraine film captures 'psychiatric disease' of war
Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa returns to Cannes Thursday with "The Invasion", a documentary that captures the absurdity of wa...
![Danish museum settles dispute with artist over missing cash](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ec/9e/d5/Danish-museum-settles-dispute-with--191175_small.jpg)
Danish museum settles dispute with artist over mis...
A museum in Denmark has settled its dispute with an artist after it was presented with blank canvases despite lending him over 70,...
![Mad Max, Meryl and #MeToo in strong day for women at Cannes](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/3f/da/82/Mad-Max--Meryl-and--MeToo-in-strong-551551_small.jpg)
Mad Max, Meryl and #MeToo in strong day for women...
A blood-splattered "Mad Max" heroine, a Meryl Streep masterclass, a #MeToo figurehead -- the Cannes Film Festival showed the progr...
![Child mascots and bun towers: Hong Kong keeps island traditions alive](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/32/42/2b/Child-mascots-and-bun-towers--Hong--675161_small.jpg)
Child mascots and bun towers: Hong Kong keeps isla...
Sporting costumes ranging from Cinderella dresses to Dragon Ball Z outfits, children were hoisted onto metal poles as unofficial m...
![Cannes gets rolling with strong day for women on screen](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/3f/da/82/Cannes-gets-rolling-with-strong-day-111111_small.jpg)
Cannes gets rolling with strong day for women on s...
The Cannes Film Festival got rolling on Wednesday with a strong day for female representation, including the new "Mad Max", a Mery...
![Streep honoured at opening of drama-filled Cannes Film Festival](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/a7/09/31/Streep-honoured-at-opening-of-drama-511175_small.jpg)
Streep honoured at opening of drama-filled Cannes...
Meryl Streep was guest of honour at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, unfolding this year against the background...
![Grammy-winning sax player David Sanborn dies](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/fa/2d/0b/Grammy-winning-sax-player-David-San-197731_small.jpg)
Grammy-winning sax player David Sanborn dies
Grammy-winning saxophonist David Sanborn, whose soaring solos appeared on works by David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen, has died. He...
![King Charles III sees red in new portrait](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/b4/a9/01/King-Charles-III-sees-red-in-new-po-407777_small.jpg)
King Charles III sees red in new portrait
King Charles III on Tuesday unveiled the first completed official portrait of himself since his coronation -- a striking red depic...
![Alice Munro, Nobel-winning Canadian author, dead at 92](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/15/21/4d/Alice-Munro--Nobel-winning-Canadian-751101_small.jpg)
Alice Munro, Nobel-winning Canadian author, dead a...
Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning author known as "Canada's Chekhov" for her mastery of the short story, has died at 92, her ed...
![Alice Munro, Nobel-winning Canadian author, dead at 92: media](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/15/21/4d/Alice-Munro--Nobel-winning-Canadian-549117_small.jpg)
Alice Munro, Nobel-winning Canadian author, dead a...
Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning author known as "Canada's Chekhov" for her mastery of the short story, has died at 92, Canadi...
![A gloomy season for Ethiopia's 'green gold' at the khat market](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/c5/b8/05/A-gloomy-season-for-Ethiopia-s--gre-116652_small.jpg)
A gloomy season for Ethiopia's 'green gold' at the...
"We call it green gold," says Ramadan Youssouf, a khat trader in the Ethiopian town of Aweday, one of the largest markets in the w...
![$27.7 million Bacon tops New York art auction sales](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/44/75/2c/-27-7-million-Bacon-tops-New-York-a-657718_small.jpg)
$27.7 million Bacon tops New York art auction sale...
A portrait by British painter Francis Bacon of his great love sold for $27.7 million at Sotheby's spring sales in New York on Mond...
![Greta Gerwig's jury at the Cannes Film Festival](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/14/2c/f6/Greta-Gerwig-s-jury-at-the-Cannes-F-155741_small.jpg)
Greta Gerwig's jury at the Cannes Film Festival
An eight member jury led by Greta Gerwig will decide the winner of this year's Palme d'Or, the top prize of the Cannes Film Festiv...
![French court to rule in Polanski defamation trial](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/03/e5/19/French-court-to-rule-in-Polanski-de-116515_small.jpg)
French court to rule in Polanski defamation trial
A French court will rule Tuesday on whether French-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski is guilty of defaming British actor Charlotte L...
![Hollywood heads to Cannes as off-screen drama soars](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/4c/35/b3/Hollywood-heads-to-Cannes-as-off-sc-751575_small.jpg)
Hollywood heads to Cannes as off-screen drama soar...
Hollywood stars jetted into Cannes on Tuesday as the world's most famous film festival gets under way in dramatic circumstances, i...
![Celebrities face digital backlash over Gaza silence](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/8d/3d/c3/Celebrities-face-digital-backlash-o-003706_small.jpg)
Celebrities face digital backlash over Gaza silenc...
Celebrities who have remained silent on the crisis in Gaza are feeling the wrath of angry fans wielding the "digital guillotine" t...
![US to raise concerns at first AI talks with China](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/b7/96/68/US-to-raise-concerns-at-first-AI-ta-151185_small.jpg)
US to raise concerns at first AI talks with China
The United States and China will hold their first talks on artificial intelligence on Tuesday, with Washington set to raise concer...
![Swiss Eurovision winner Nemo returns to hero's welcome](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/6a/66/7f/Swiss-Eurovision-winner-Nemo-return-150353_small.jpg)
Swiss Eurovision winner Nemo returns to hero's wel...
Nemo was given a hero's welcome on returning to Switzerland after winning the Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday, being greeted by...
![Legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman dies](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/e3/36/f5/Legendary-B-movie-producer-Roger-Co-551355_small.jpg)
Legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman dies
American B-movie director and producer Roger Corman, best known for hundreds of low-budget films and discovering Hollywood heavywe...