By Sara Bright So Jilly Cooper is gone. And with her, it feels, goes the key to a certain room in the English house that…
By Sara Bright So, Aimee Lou Wood has a new show out. Film Club. BBC Three. The premise is one of those things that sounds lovely…
By Sara Bright So, Taylor Swift has a new album out. The usual tidal wave of attention, the broken records, the breathless analysis. But we’re…
By Sara Bright So, the October film lists are out. The usual glossy round-ups of what we’re supposed to be watching. And you look at…
There is a moment in Olivier Dahan’s La Vie en Rose (2007) when Marion Cotillard, as the aged Edith Piaf, sits hunched in a chair…
By Sara Bright There is a change in the air as October settles in. The days shorten, the light thins, and our attention naturally turns…
By Sara Bright There is a particular quality to the light beneath the Mediterranean, a shifting, green-tinged twilight where the past does not so much…
By Sara Bright There are evenings when the weight of the world demands a specific kind of antidote. Not high art, not challenging drama, but…
By Sara Bright Before the myth, before the searing colours of Tahiti, before the infamous incident with the ear, there was a man in a…
By Sara Bright There was a moment, earlier this week, when members of Parliament gathered to debate whether London Fashion Week was in the national…