IN OUR fast-paced world, one has to really trust an author to make a big commitment of time to surrender to the enormity of a novel such as this of nearly 600 pages. 

THE title comes from Rousseau’s edict on education, Let there be no book but the world. 

Size: Sq m 420 (4,500 sq ft)

Faced with the challenge of filming a literary classic, a director can opt for a slavish devotion to the original text or to adapt the source material for a different kind of storytelling.

ONE puzzling and often overlooked feature of the France that elected Nicolas Sarkozy as its new president, and that is now poised to give his political allies a powerful parliamentary mandate after tomorrow’s elections, is its mix of private optimism and public pessimism.

Arcand, who made the brilliant l989 Jesus of Montreal, returns to form with this excellent Cannes double award-winner (and double Oscar hopeful).

Rolf Harris is to be honoured with an exhibition of his work at the National Gallery.