Classical CDs: Infernal dances, hammered dulcimer and musical taxidermy

CLASSICAL CDS: Infernal dances, hammered dulcimer and musical taxidermy

French and Welsh songs, Russian ballet and a musical cactus

 

Boulanger songsNadia & Lili Boulanger: Les Heures Claires - The Complete Songs Lucile Richardot (mezzo), Stéphane Degout (baritone), Raquel Camarinha (soprano), Anne de Fornel (piano), Sarah Nemtanu (violin), Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) (Harmonia Mundi)

Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism, Dulwich Picture Gallery review - lightning speed brushwork by an Impressionist maestro

★★★ BERTHE MORISOT: SHAPING IMPRESSIONISM, DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY An Impressionist painter's view from inside the boudoir

An Impressionist painter's view from inside the boudoir

When Berthe Morisot organised the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874, along with Monet, Degas, Renoir and co, she’d already exhibited at the Paris Salon for a decade – since she was 23. That’s not bad for someone refused entry to art school because she was a woman!

Blu-ray: A Woman Kills

A lost treasure from May '68 Paris radically considers a transvestite serial killer

May 1968. As France’s Fifth Republic shook, radical director Jean-Denis Bonan divided his time in the Paris streets between filming protests and the fictional hunt for a cross-dressing serial killer. A Woman Kills lay unfinished and forgotten till 2010, a rough-edged film maudit from a tumultuous time.

Album: Sissoko Ségal Parisien Peirani - Les Égarés

★★★★ SISSOKO SEGAL PARISIEN PEIRAN - LES EGARES Delicate musical conversations

Delicate musical conversations hit the spot

This is an enchanting album which brings together four outstanding musicians, brilliant in their own right, but also adept at the kind of collaboration in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, National Gallery review - an impressive tour de force

★★★★★ AFTER IMPRESSIONISM, NATIONAL GALLERY An impressive tour de force

But many names are missing from this international survey

What a feast! Congratulations are due to the National Gallery for its latest blockbuster After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art. Such a superb collection of modern masters is unlikely to be assembled again under one roof, so this is a once-in-a-lifetime, must-see exhibition.

John Wick: Chapter 4 review - is this the El Cid of shoot-'em-up movies?

★★★★★ JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 Is this the El Cid of shoot-'em-up movies?

Keanu Reeves's Zen assassin scales new heights of awesomeness

Since the first John Wick film from 2014 became an unexpected hit, the Wick franchise has blossomed into a booming business empire, also including comic books, video games and upcoming TV spin-offs. The title role has transformed Keanu Reeves, who remains guarded about his spiritual leanings, into the Zen master of action heroes.

Other People's Children review - a Parisian woman battles the tyranny of the biological clock

Rebecca Zlotowski's fifth feature tackles serious issues but feels too well mannered

“Trapped?” hisses 40-year-old Rachel (Virginie Efira) at her boyfriend, Ali (Roschdy Zem), who has a five-year-old daughter and is returning, for the sake of their child, to his ex-wife, Alice (Chiara Mastroianni). “What’s trapped you? Nothing at all. You can have kids or not have them, whenever you like.”

You Resemble Me review - complex portrait of a troubled young woman

Egyptian-American journalist Dina Amer's directorial debut, drawn from life

You Resemble Me is the very definition of a passion project, and all the better for it. First-time director Dina Amer was a journalist working for Vice News. She was sent to Paris to cover the 2015 terrorist attacks that left 130 people dead and hundreds more injured. Amer was on the scene when the police raided a flat where the terrorists were based.