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...Multimedia options are a little bit more difficult to come by, but some impressive ones stand out including one of the earliest recordings of "Amazing Grace" and the Marseillaise. For visual stimulation, try a late 19th-century short film of a Holy Week procession in Spain from the great Lumière brothers. (See TIME's pictures of modern-day Holy Week...
...bant Café, tel: (33-1) 4770 0102. Then, we'd get on our bicycles and pedal to the Marché des Enfants Rouges, the oldest covered market in Paris, for the organic produce, delicatessens and wine merchants. After lunch, we might hit the vintage-clothing stores Oh Lumière, tel: (33-1) 4357 5126, for vintage sneakers and the like, and Doursoux, tel: (33-1) 4700 0182, a classy military-surplus store with great aviator jackets and sweaters. For dinner, we'd reserve a table at Autour d'un Verre, tel: (33-1) 4824 4374, a friendly restaurant...
Prices in the souks are around $10-$16 for a bra-and-knickers set complete with son et lumière effects, but expect to haggle. Charme is found toward the end of Souk Hamadiya, away from the Umayyad Mosque; head upstairs for wedding sets of nightdresses and lingerie from around $15, and for individual nighties costing up to $70. A short taxi ride away in Hamra Street, Asseel has a greater range of conventional underwear; bras cost $8-25, knickers start at only...
...always some party you can't sneak into, some venue you will be barred from (like today's Da Vinci Codepress conference). The signs read "Complet," which is French for "Get lost." Considered coolly, these aren't personal slights. No movie facility, not even the 2,400-seat Lumière with one of the world's largest screens, can contain 4,000 journalists, plus all the appropriate filmmakers and their retinues. Someone has to be left out. And if there were not too many people, there wouldn't be enough. Cannes would slink into anonymity and irrelevance...
...Movies slated for screening include Safi, La Petite Mère, directed by Burkina Faso's Raso Ganemtore, in which an 8-year-old rescues her newborn brother from infanticide and escapes to the city, and Petite Lumière by Senegalese director Alain Gomis, about a child's attempts to understand the world ("When I shut my eyes, are people still there?"). The festival will open with Anita Roddick: Mrs. Body Shop, a documentary by German filmmaker Thomas Weidenbach that focuses on Roddick's work in Ghana to establish a women's shea butter co-operative...