9 d. ago BBC's King and Conqueror: What happened to William the Conqueror?

The new BBC drama tells the story of the Battle of Hastings and the relationship between Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy

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9 d. ago King and Conqueror star James Norton's solemn promise to Emmanuel Macron

A new BBC period drama explores the relationship between Harold and William the Conqueror before the Battle of Hastings, but James Norton assures viewers it isn't biased against the French.

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1 week ago King and Conqueror star James Norton makes odd promise to Emmanuel Macron

A new BBC period drama focuses on the relationship between Harold and William the Conqueror before the Battle of Hastings, but James Norton promises it isn't biased against the French

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1 week ago Julie Delpy on love: ‘Being a woman in a relationship is actually quite sad – you have to give up some dreams and live in reality’

The French star who captured hearts in Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy is back, but don’t expect another love story. She talks to Hannah Ewens about her gritty new role in the Netflix drama ‘Hostage’, her evolving ideas of romance, and why a fourth Before film may never happen

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1 week ago Oslo Stories Trilogy: Sex review – confessions of a chimney sweep

Rooftop conversations about sexuality and gender identity make this the most didactic – yet still lively – instalment of Dag Johan Haugerud’s trilogyHere is the first instalment of the stimulating Oslo movie trilogy about modern relationships from Norwegian novelist and film-maker Dag Johan Haugerud: this one is Sex, followed by Love and Dreams. It is marginally my least favourite of the three, being slightly more didactic and less humorous than its companions – but still very lively and full of ideas.Two guys work for a chimney sweeping business, and unlike Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins, there’s no smudge-faced larking about with brushes. But the job still appears to involve a certain amount of perching on rooftops; perhaps Haugerud has chosen this so that he can get plenty of reflective high-up views of the city, rooted in dramatic reality, and which aren’t just hackneyed drone shots. They are close friends, and in an idle moment of chat, one of them (Jan Gunnar Røise) confesses t...

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3 w. ago Oslo Stories Trilogy: Love review – gracefully grownup and breezy relationships drama

Doctor Marianne wonders if her gay colleague Tor’s approach to dating would work for her, in the second film of Dag Johan Haugerud’s absorbing trilogyHere is the second of Norwegian film-maker and novelist Dag Johan Haugerud’s seductive trilogy about affairs of the heart and mind, set in Oslo. (It comes between Sex and Dreams.) It is a thoroughly grownup and absorbing drama, acted with such sympathy and warmth, a ruminative and exploratory movie of ideas, and one that pays its audience the compliment of treating them as intelligent beings. Love is about a familiar question: can straight people learn from or even absorb the open and polygamous approach to sex that appears to come easier to gay people (and perhaps younger people of all sexualities), perhaps specifically gay men? Or is that idea stereotypical and naive?Andrea Braein Hovig plays Marianne, a urology consultant whose job it is to give bad news to a succession of men about their prostate cancer. She is single (though her p...

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