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Unsung Inglourious Basterds actor Denis Ménochet encounters more terror in the countryside in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beasts

The diminutive Italian actress, star of La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, was more than a match for her husband, director Federico Fellini, on and off set

We labelled her an ‘enemy alien’ but the Austrian-born studio potter’s work helped reinvent a drab postwar Britain

The late Israeli actor and singer performed If I Were a Rich Man more than 3,500 times in multiple productions of Fiddler on the Roof

The Beheading of St John the Baptist in Valletta’s St John’s Co-Cathedral became the inspiration for Samuel Beckett’s dramatic monologue Not I

Most modern European languages are thought to have originally come from one area of the vast Eurasian Steppe

A local modern-day bard, serenading commuters and beautifying the neighbourhood, is easily the best eccentric street person I’ve ever known

This recipe, from the founder of Michelin-starred Le Quinzième in Paris, puts a South American twist on a familiar favourite

It’s nothing short of terrifying that Tom Basden has managed to shift a story of Italian police corruption so effortlessly and convincingly to a metropolitan police station in this country

A triumphant production about life, love, growing old and dying has absolutely restored my faith in theatre

The Cuddy author has a rare gift for finding the right voice for the right people in the right era

When the Muppets went on a mission to Moscow in the 1990s, things didn’t go according to plan

The latest screen adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel has scooped four Oscars and seven Baftas

Hundreds of Afghan artists have had to flee the country since the regime closed down galleries and threatened them with prison

Arguably the greatest footballer in the world has inspired a plethora of songs across Europe

This recipe from the founder of Spanish deli Brindisa is a sure-fire winner for group dining

She was that rarest of dancers, one who could apparently transcend physics and the limitations of the human body

Look closely at the suffix -less and you’ll find it often attached to words like reck and ruth that have ceased to exist

The sight of tracksuit-wearing Brits entering one of the most beautiful brasseries on the Left Bank left me gasping and prostrated

Sleepova is one of those free-flowing, slice-of-life dramas that, with a no-frills staging, places a vast amount of pressure on the individual actors to make something of their parts

It’s clear everyone has tried very hard to make this show work. They failed

The story of the Senegal-born boxer the IRA couldn’t knock out – and his fatal drift into dissipation

Cannes Best Actress winner Zar Amir Ebrahimi on her exile from Iran and why her work shames the regime

Kælan Mikla bring their witchy synth-punk to the UK for the first time since the pandemic

Should undiscovered Terry Pratchett stories, and other posthumous work, be published?

How Sweden’s Eurovision loser became perhaps Europe’s greatest-ever jazz singer

Celebrating pizza – a better gauge of human integrity than Matt Hancock

The language arrived in Wales much earlier than England thanks to links between Britons and ordinary Romans

The remarkable career of the Spanish republican soldier who stumbled into the film industry

The case of a pedestrian jailed for causing the death of a cyclist highlights the ongoing power struggle on the pavements of urban Britain

The story of a bored Liverpudlian housewife finding love on a holiday to Greece now feels very dated

This has been said to be a dark reimagining of the old classic, but it is taking the word too literally