Gisèle Pelicot
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516 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 25 Jun
Gisèle Pelicot’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then I was awake till 3 a.m., staring at the ceiling.
And then, so I actually did sleep through the nominations.
And my husband, who's a producer on The Perfect Neighbor, Nakon Kwantu, came screaming into the room with my co-director from The Devil Is Busy on the phone.
So that's how I found out about both.
With elegant ball gowns, lingering glances and perfectly timed rainstorms, there's an irresistible pull of a love story set in another era.
That's seen in the rising popularity of shows like Bridgerton, the new Wuthering Heights movie and the endless remakes of Pride and Prejudice.
But the reasons behind Gen Z's obsession go beyond the superficial lavish sets and predictable storylines.
Many young women say period dramas offer an escape from the uninspiring modern dating scene.
That's the view of two women in Canada and India.
But what do the experts make of our enduring love for historical dramas?
Dr. Faye Woods, associate professor in film and television at Britain's Reading University, told us it's about more than just romance.
Period dramas kind of favours female protagonists who feel like kind of women out of time that we as a contemporary audience can understand.
So you can kind of see why viewers that maybe feel like they have a lack of control in their own lives due to social and political instigability, who can maybe struggle with a lack of emotional transparency in relationships,
could favour programmes with heroines who are faced with this in historical bodies, but are able to kind of push past these barriers.
So many fans of a good romance will no doubt spend this Valentine's Day in an alternate universe filled with billowy white shirts and strict courtship etiquettes.
It was hard to recognize myself. Then the officer showed me a second photo and a third. My world fell apart. I'm speaking now not for myself, but for all the women who are drugged and abused.
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