Pardon My French with Cécile & Michelle Michelle & Cécile

Bienvenue! On this episode of the pod, Cécile and Michelle go deep, engaging in semiotic and narrative analyses as they dissect the intricacies of mise-en-scène in Agnès Varda's essential 1962 film. JK! We just chat it up. Join us in this freewheeling discussion of French New Wave Cinema, the startling beauty of Corinne Marchand, questionable undergarments, and the impact of Seasonal Affective Disorder. We're too good for men!

Michelle's lost limb is back from Japan. Cécile shares her adventures, the girls play with letting AI do the pod, and we review our Barbenheimer experiences. Kon'nichiwa!

Jeanne Dielman was voted the greatest film of all time by the British Film Institute last year and Cécile and Michelle set out to discover whether this 3:40 long movie is revelatory or simply tedium. Spoiler alert - we loved it.

The Pardon My French girls check in to dish breezily after some time apart. Allons-y!

This week: We love Haneke! Leaps and lacunae! Did the daughter kill the mother? Should John Williams score this movie? We place our bets in this provocative talk where Cécile and Michelle metaphorically poop back and forth forever discussing this fascinating film by one of our favorite directors.

In this episode, Michelle and Cécile discuss the poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo" by Rainer Maria Rilke, focusing on its multiple translations and its stunning end. We have a pleogasm, we talk about being a poet and encountering poems in the world, and Cécile parses out the German. We find it all very interesting and intriguing and, hey, we say so. Please rejoignez-nous!