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“Coup de Chance,” Reviewed: Woody Allen Reëmerges with a Movie About Getting Away with Murder
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“Coup de Chance,” Reviewed: Woody Allen Reëmerges with a Movie About Getting Away with Murder

The most recent movie directed by Woody Allen, “Coup de Chance,” which opens in theatres this Friday, April 5th, is the most prominent theatrical release that any of Allen’s films have had since “Wonder Wheel,” six and a half years ago. But it’s not for lack of trying. In the meantime, Allen has been busy. In August, 2017, he signed a four-picture deal with Amazon. He started shooting “A Rainy Day in New York” a month later, with a cast that included such prominent actors as Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Selena Gomez, Rebecca Hall, and Liev Schreiber. But, that October, allegations of sexual abuse and harassment emerged against Harvey Weinstein—many of which were reported by Allen’s son Ronan Farrow, in The New Yorker—and against other powerful Hollywood men, energizing the #MeToo move...
Air France to serve 23 North American cities this summer – Business Traveller
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Air France to serve 23 North American cities this summer – Business Traveller

Air France has outlined plans to serve a total of 23 cities across the US, Canada and Mexico this summer. The carrier will resume daily flights between Paris CDG and Minneapolis on May 13 – a route served by joint venture partner Delta in summer 2023. It will also extend its Paris-Raleigh-Durham service (which it took over from Delta in October last year) into summer 2024, with up to seven flights per week operated by A350-900 aircraft. The full list of Air France’s North American destinations for summer 2024 is as follows: United States Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York JFK, Newark, Raleigh-Durham, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington DC Canada Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto and Vancouver Mexico Cancun and Mexi...
How IKEA Downsized to Go Downtown
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How IKEA Downsized to Go Downtown

Updated Dec. 31, 2023 12:20 am ETPARIS—There was no instruction manual when IKEA’s Paris team set to work building a new kind of city-center store.The Swedish furniture company’s ambition was to create a smaller version of its giant blue-and-yellow suburban stores for downtown consumers, to be replicated around the world. A quarter of the size of IKEA’s traditional outlets, the central Paris store—the first of this new type when it opened in 2019—would need to be radically different, they decided.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Macron Stirs Fury by Praising Gérard Depardieu, French Actor Accused of Rape
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Macron Stirs Fury by Praising Gérard Depardieu, French Actor Accused of Rape

PARIS—France is losing its patience with renowned artists and intellectuals whose work has long given them a free pass against sexual-misconduct allegations.So it came as a shock to many this week when President Emmanuel Macron strongly praised the actor Gérard Depardieu, once the face of French cinema, who has been accused of sexual assault and rape by a number of women. Macron rejected the suggestion by his own culture minister that Depardieu should lose the Legion of Honor, one of France’s highest awards, arguing it is merited for great artists who might be bad people.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Chicken Nuggets in Reusable Bowls? McDonald’s Isn’t Lovin’ It
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Chicken Nuggets in Reusable Bowls? McDonald’s Isn’t Lovin’ It

PARIS—A McDonald’s on a buzzy boulevard here offers a glimpse of what the future of serving fast food could look like. The burger giant doesn’t like what it sees.For those dining in, french fries are served in durable red containers, soda is dispensed into clear washable glasses and chicken nuggets come in hard plastic white bowls. When customers are finished eating, they are asked to drop the containers into a bin to be washed, dried and reused.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
A Tale of Two Hats
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A Tale of Two Hats

December makes me think of hats—well, one hat in particular. Not Napoleon’s bicorne hat, an original of which (just in time for Ridley Scott’s movie) sold for $2.1 million at an auction last month in France, but Santa’s hat.The two aren’t as different as you might imagine. They share the same origins and, improbably, tell a similar story. Both owe their existence to the invention of felt, a densely matted textile. The technique of felting was developed several thousand years ago by the nomads of Central Asia. Since felt stays waterproof and keeps its shape, it could be used to make tents, padding and clothes.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Air France, Etihad and Lufthansa ads banned over misleading environmental claims – Business Traveller
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Air France, Etihad and Lufthansa ads banned over misleading environmental claims – Business Traveller

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that Air France, Etihad and Lufthansa must stop showing “misleading” adverts promoting the airlines’ environmental impact. In three separate rulings the ASA said that the adverts in question “must not appear again in the form complained about”. In the case of Air France the ASA challenged an ad which stated “Manchester to Bangkok […] Air France flights […] Air France is committed to protecting the environment: travel better and sustainably”. The Authority said that the ad “would be understood by consumers to mean that Air France offered a sustainable and environmentally friendly way to travel by air”, and that it “therefore expected to see a high level of evidence which demonstrated how Air France were protecting the environment and mak...
Tourist Stabbed to Death Near Eiffel Tower in Suspected Terrorist Attack
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Tourist Stabbed to Death Near Eiffel Tower in Suspected Terrorist Attack

PARIS—A German tourist was stabbed to death on Saturday evening a few hundred yards from the Eiffel Tower in a suspected terrorist attack, a blow to authorities on high alert because of the Israel-Hamas war. The suspect, identified as a Frenchman in his 20s, was arrested shortly after the slaying, said Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin. France’s counterterrorism prosecutor opened an investigation.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
The French Are Not Happy About “Napoleon”
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The French Are Not Happy About “Napoleon”

Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon.”Photograph courtesy Apple TV+Americans are so used to seeing history played by Americans that the oddity of it hardly registers anymore. Charlton Heston was the Spanish El Cid and the Hebrew Egyptian Moses and the Judean Ben-Hur—believe it or not, he won an Oscar for that one—and his Midwestern accents were taken for granted whomever he played and wherever the character was supposed to have lived.And why not? No one expects the actors in a production of “Julius Caesar” to speak good Latin. Fiction is the premise of all fictions, and that simple truth, along with the (perhaps declining) companion truth that, for the most part, movie stars are made in America, is enough to explain the phenomenon. Indeed, the whole point and rationale—the raison d...
Wegovy-Maker Novo Nordisk to Spend More Than $2 Billion Boosting Production in France
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Wegovy-Maker Novo Nordisk to Spend More Than $2 Billion Boosting Production in France

Pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk said it will invest more than 16 billion Danish kroner ($2.34 billion) in its French production site as it seeks to meet rising demand for its blockbuster obesity and diabetes treatments.The Danish company, which makes the Wegovy obesity drug and diabetes drug Ozempic, said Thursday that the expansion of its facility in Chartres, southwest of Paris, will more than double the size of the site and is expected to create more than 500 new jobs. Construction, which has already started and will employ up to 2,000 external workers, is set to complete between 2026 and 2028, it said.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8