France Culture

Feeling your best is about far more than deciding what colour to paint your accent wall or how to apply nightly moisturiser. It's also about creating a life that's well-rounded and filled with humour and understanding and, most importantly, that suits you. At a cultural moment when we are all craving people to admire, Queer Eye offers hope and acceptance. After you get to know the Fab Five, together they will guide you through five practical chapters that go beyond their designated areas of expertise.

Paul West, a young Englishman, arrives in Paris to start a new job and finds out what the French are really like. They do eat a lot of cheese, some of which smells like pigs' droppings. They don't wash their armpits with garlic soap. Going on strike really is the second national participation sport after petanque. And, yes, they do use suppositories.

Deep in the Blitzkrieg, one unlucky tourist must fight to survive. When aspiring pilot John Archer finds himself caught in the middle of the devastating Nazi invasion of France, he quickly realizes that his vacation could cost him his life. As an American swept up in a wave of refugees fleeing the chaos of the German advance, deep down he knows he’s in way over his head. When an unfortunate capture leads to Archer discovering vital information about the Nazi’s plans, he knows he has no choice but to slip out from under his enemy’s nose and tell the Allies what he’s found.

“The revival of interest in Provençal poetry in the late nineteenth century was a major inspiration for modern literary thinking. In tracing Friedrich Nietzsche’s engagement with Provençal lyric, Yunus Tuncel elucidates many of the philosopher’s most affirmative and exhilarating gestures. Tuncel does not shy away from difficult questions, such as the seeming divergence between Nietzsche and the Provençal poets in terms of representing gender. Festooned with copious, illustrations and written in a creative and poetic manner, Nietzsche, Gai Saber, and Modernity sits at the borderline...

C'est presque sans hésiter que l'on peut transposer dans cette lecture l'expérience des milieux du théâtre comme du Music Hall de Colette. Toby-Chien passerait pour un de ces personnages qui hantent les coulisses toujours en quête d'une émotion, d'un regard, et Kiki-la-Doucette, en vedette incontestée, fait souffrir de son mieux son admirateur le plus fervent, quitte à le perdre...

"Document sonore brut, nous avons choisi de ne pas remonter en studio cette conversation d'Arletty avec Marc Laudelout, afin de restituer le plus fidèlement possible la fraîcheur et l'authenticité de la rencontre entre le journaliste et la grande actrice - mythique s'il en est - de l'âge d'or du cinéma français. Marc Laudelout réussit avec perfection à nous faire partager une Arletty intime, généreuse, pleine d'esprit."