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World Service,01 Oct 2022,49 mins

Director Romain Gavras: Controlling chaos on screen

The Arts Hour

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Nikki Bedi is joined for two fascinating interviews by a prize-winning author and by a Greek/French cinematic auteur. She speaks with Pakistani British author Kamila Shamsie about her latest novel Best of Friends which follows two schoolgirls and the way their friendship grows and changes over the decades And film director Romain Gavras discusses his latest film “Athena”. Stylish, violent and tender, it’s set in a French housing project, telling the story of 3 Algerian-French brothers who have very differing relations to wider French society and their place within it. (Photo: Romain Gavras. Credit: Rocco Spaziani/Archivio Spaziani/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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