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France Is Having a Hot Guillotine Summer
Keep your coconut tree.
Nearly two hours into the endlessly entertaining 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony, I’m thinking its artistic director might be the most brilliant French mind since the mad scientists who dreamed up the Minions. During the “La Vie en Rose” section, one of the huge pink cartes postales dotting the river literally said “Baguette! In the “Liberté” portion of the ceremony, sandwiched between a tribute to the craftsmanship of Louis Vuitton and a pretaped perfume commercial-adjacent segment celebrating the horny highbrow smut of French literature, a row of beheaded Marie Antoinette types swathed in red with decapitated faces painted clown-white sang the French revolutionary song “Ça ira ” alongside the heavy-metal band Gojira.
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