Agnes C. Poirier
@agnescpoirier
Journalist, writer & broadcaster. 📚LEFT BANK, Arts, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950 (Bloomsbury) 📚NOTRE-DAME, The Soul of France (OneWorld) ✍️ 🎤 📺 UK and French politics, Arts and History
One of Paris’s most cherished #BastilleDay traditions won’t happen this year. All firefighters’ balls on 13 & 14 July have been cancelled as the capital braces for extreme heat under red alert.
She had said she would not campaign with an electronic tag… So will she or not? #LePenVerdict
Pope Leo will celebrate mass… on the Champs Elysées on 26 September.
My Notebook in the Times #Cannes #Fjord #Minotaur #LAbandon #GabrielAttal
My two favourite films at #Cannes win the Palme d’Or and the Grand Prix : Fjord by Cristian Mungiu and Minotaur by Andrey Zvyagintsev !
Here is the poster for the 79th edition of The Cannes Film Festival 2026. Thelma and Louise… #Cannes2026
She was incredibly charming. RIP Nathalie Baye. One of my favourite films with her is Truffaut’s Day For Night (La nuit américaine)
My column in The Times today. "Two weeks ago, the Socialist Party and the Greens cut all ties with Jean-Luc Mélenchon over “intolerable” antisemitic provocations. Today? In city after city they are cosying up to the very same party. They call it “technical fusions”. Orwell would have smiled."
Giorgio Gosetti, critic, festival director, and beloved cinema passeur, died suddenly last Friday in Rome. Cinema has lost a true friend. Ciao Giorgio!
#Paris is bracing for impact. Municipal elections take place on 15 & 22 March. We may face five candidates at the second round…
An American friend came to dinner last night wearing this. « Enough is enough! » with a pun on Nuuk, Greenland’s capital city.
The French Left is losing its marbles. #Paris’s left-wing candidate for mayor (elections on 15 & 22 March) warns that the city may face a “brown wave”—yes, like the Brownshirts, the paramilitary arm of the Nazi Party.
"How much longer will the French tolerate the rancour of a septuagenarian whose perpetual provocations saturate the political landscape?" @ericchol.bsky.social in fine form in this week's @lexpress.fr #JeanLucMelenchon
Charlie Hebdo says it as it is: La France Insoumise, led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, has created a toxic political climate. For years, it has smeared opponents as “fascists,” “Zionists,” or “Nazis,” demonizing disagreement.
I joined @RaphaelKahane to discuss the Epstein case and its global impact. Watch here: www.france24.com/fr/%C3%A9mis...
Always a privilege to take part in the #Cannes preselection of British films!
Sun King interlude ✨ 40 of the 92 giant carpets commissioned by Louis XIV for the Louvre Palace, shown side by side at the Grand Palais in Paris. Absolutely phwoar.
“It is precisely because I am of the Left that I am no longer of the Left.” French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut