As our society continues to age, the depiction of the “Third Age”—the period of life after retirement—takes on increasing significance. “Abschiede und Aufbrüche: Das Alter im […]
Wednesday morning, French singer Thomas Dutronc announced the disappearance of his mother, late music icon Françoise Hardy, at 80 years old. As the expected laudatory tributes […]
The Third Austrian Film Gender Report was released in April 2024 by Austrian Film Institute and involves the funding data from eleven Austrian funding bodies, including […]
Podcast recommendation – Wiser than me TM (2023-) In her seminal essay The Second Sex, first published in France in 1949, Simone de Beauvoir discusses the […]
In the study of ageing and gender in contemporary European cinema that the research project AGE-C is undertaking, one of the key lines of questioning is […]
When taking into consideration the production of European films about ageing in the twenty-first century, one of the potential avenues for exploration is the engagement of […]
As the fourth anniversary of the outbreak of the Covid pandemic approaches, Europe finally seems to have entered an endemic stage of cohabitation with the virus. […]
Although one month ago, French movie icon Catherine Deneuve celebrated her 80th birthday, she is still far from retirement: after a much talked-about commercial for Cartier […]
At the face of decline: Ageing as comedy in contemporary French cinema On Saturday 14th October, members of the French and English team of the AGE-C […]