This week on Sound Kitchen, we'll answer your questions about last-minute film additions to the Cannes Film Festival lineup, have a Listener's Corner with Paul Myers, the latest on Roland Garros, and loads of great music. All this, plus a new quiz and a bonus quiz, so click the play button above to enjoy!
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This week's quiz: On May 4th, we asked about the Cannes Film Festival, about a film that was just added to the screenings. Please refer to our article “French stars Omar Sy and Eva Green to be jury members of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival” and send us the answers to the following questions: What is the title of that last-minute film? What is the director's name and nationality?
The answer is, To quote our article, “Recently, there have been some late additions to the festival's lineup, including Sacred Fig Seed “It's a film by Iranian director Mohammed Rasoulof, who is at risk of being jailed for criticizing the government. It's unclear whether he will be able to take part in the festival.”
he was As we reported a few days later, Rasoulof had left Iran without proper permission and was unable to attend the festival after being sentenced to eight years in prison and flogging on national security charges.
“I was given the choice between going to prison or leaving Iran,” he said at the time. “It was with a heavy heart that I chose asylum.”
The 52-year-old Rasulov is already No Evil“, which won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival four years ago. Sincere personwas highly praised at Cannes in 2018, but it led to a series of travel restrictions, prison sentences and filmmaking bans in Iran, and in 2023 he was unable to accept an invitation to serve on the Cannes competition jury due to his detention.
Sacred Fig Seed Not only did the film receive the longest standing ovation of this year's festival (12 minutes!), but it also won the FIPRESCI Award from the jury of the International Federation of Film Critics, a special award given at the festival.
In addition to the quiz questions, there were also bonus questions.“What book has made the biggest difference in your life and how did it change your life?”
Have an idea for a bonus question? Send it in!
The winners are as follows: RFI Listeners Club member Sahadot Hossain from Kishoreganj, Bangladesh. Sahadot is also the winner of this week's Bonus Quiz. Congratulations Sahadot!
This week's list of lucky winners also includes Shivendu Paul, president of RFI Metalli Listeners Club, Murshidabad, India; Sakhawat Hossain, member of RFI Listeners Club, Sylhet, Bangladesh; RFI English listener Bhabo of Friends Radio Club, Naogaon, and Suresh Agrawal, Odisha, India.
Here's the music you heard on the show this week: Opera Overture Ruslan and Lyudmila “Love's Trouble” by Mikhail Glinka, performed by the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev, “Watch What Happens”, “Mr. Ours” by Michel Legrand, performed by Ted Green, “Flight of the Bumblebee”, “Cakewalk” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Kids Corner Words by Claude Debussy, performed by the composer himself; “Evening”: Words by Anne Malcolm, music by Debussy, arranged by Tom Harrell, performed by Anne Malcolm and her ensemble.
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Question of the Week … You must listen to the show to participate. After you listen to the show, re-read our article “35th anniversary of Tiananmen Square: China's top dissidents reflect,” which will help you find the answer.
Entries for this week's quiz are open until July 1. The winner will be announced on the podcast on July 6. When you enter, be sure to submit your postcode along with your answer, and your RFI Listeners Club membership number, if you have one.
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