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Arnaud Desplechin: 'Theatre is for the bourgeois. Film is the art of rascals!'

by Laura Cappelle

The revered film director vowed never to touch theatre. So why is he staging the great Aids epic Angels in America? Apparently, it's all a misunderstanding Arnaud Desplechin looks surprisingly calm as he excuses himself to listen to a voicemail from the Comédie-Française's technical team. France is one week into a general strike over pension reform and the country's premier theatre company has followed suit, resu…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:06am on January 6, 2020