Gaëlle Denis

@LenaLongstream Amazing news! So happy for you and the team ❤️🇩🇰

I’m not going to be cool about this. I MAY GET NO WORK DONE TODAY! 🌟🥂🙏🔥

Congratulations to the new Labour Government. We are excited to work with @Keir_Starmer, @BPhillipsonMP & @LisaNandy to help realise ambitions from the Labour Creatives Conference, especially ensuring the UK’s £126bn creative industries have the skills & talent they need to grow.

Best thing to do in London today gagosian.com/exhibitions/20…

I love her work! #LucyKirkwood is so talented @casarottoramsay

French Politics: Full-on drama and comedy, better than UK politics, Shakespeare and Netflix!

This event is happening at #LondonPerformanceStudios in #Peckham if you’re interested and fancy coming along! Free entry and food! #actors #directors #London londonperformancestudios.com/analysis-throu…

@lucyprebblish All The Beauty And The Bloodshed

@Hanifkureishi E

A HAIRCUT AND A SHAVE Sachin takes me out of the hospital and into the filthy street, clogged with traffic. Outside, in my wheelchair, I feel frail and vulnerable. People are literally looking down on me. I cannot believe that they don’t know what is it like to wake up and find that you cannot use your hands; what that is like, what an ending that is. I’m pushed into the barber shop where a friendly Syrian gives me a shave and a haircut.  Im shocked by my appearance, I look thin if not emaciated. My eyes and nose are bigger than before. But I have been successfully shitting after taking a barrage of laxatives and my appetite has returned. I had a halloumi sandwich for lunch, which is more than I’ve eaten since I’ve come back from Italy. I feel warmer. Things are looking up. Isabella, as I told you last time, said I should not only talk about my miseries. She was getting too many concerned texts from people. But there was not much else to say. I’ve now been in this new hospital, on the neurological ward, for a week and even I have to admit that it is certainly an improvement on the last place. It’s quieter. There are no half-naked demented people crawling along the floor, dragging their piss bags, howling and trying to escape the ward. It is much more relaxed, though I’m not sleeping better. I am tired for most of the day, but outrageously, I start to wake up around eleven O’clock, while listening to Martin Amis’s superb Money as an audiobook. I’m awake until about one, and then I fall asleep, afraid of my dreams. If it’s bad enough living in a hospital, I don’t want to have nightmares on top of everything else. My friends visit me most days, some of them come early, others come late, and some just walk in at random times. Sometimes there are four people in this little room at once, people who in other circumstances wouldn’t meet. Carlo says my life is not so banal, since he considers my friends to be interesting; writers, intellectuals, artists, journalists, directors, TV people, and so on. The liberal elite are in an out, crossing over with one another in this squalid little room, leaning against the wall, trying to find a chair, sitting on the edge of the bed, eating chocolate, and talking either about Barbie or Oppenheimer (Barbie easily being preferred to Oppenheimer). The rest of the conversations are about books read recently, holidays and the failure of the Tory government - how bleak and uninteresting everyone finds Keir Starmer. Apparently I’ve got quite a party going on here, but since I refuse to be cheered up, I can only vaguely enjoy it. I prefer it if Carlo is here when other people come, since he can do the heavy lifting in the conversation. He has plenty to say; he likes to talk. Until today, when I started to eat again, I’ve been too weak to say much. It costs me a lot to speak. But I can feel some of my strength returning now. I don’t know if that is better or worse. What I want to do is start going home since I live only fifteen minutes from the hospital. I haven’t seen my house since the Christmas holidays. I could do a sort of day release. Holidays are the topic I hate most, since people say things like; ‘I’m away now, off to Tuscany for two weeks, but I’ll be in to see you as soon as I get back’. Think how many nights that is I will have to get through.  They assume I’ll still be sitting in this drab, bleak little room in my nappie, and they will be right. Im going nowhere. No wonder I feel like shit.

@JonathanRomney I love India Hair, she is a great actress

#Cannes2023 Hm. Opening film JEANNE DU BARRY - not so much old school, more Ancien Régime. The one interesting thing about it: the cast list includes India Hair and Diego Le Fur.

We're overwhelmed by the messages of support for Leslie. Unfortunately, we couldn't reply to all & may not have everyone's email. Leslie's funeral is tomorrow. If you'd like to attend, please DM for details. Your presence would mean a lot to us @sohosocietyw1 @sohoradio @BFI

Leslie Hardcastle, my father-in-law, died this morning in Soho. An OBE, cultured, kind, and generous man, he was a wonderful grandfather. He was controller of @BFI, founder member of @SohoAssociation, and VP of @sohosocietyw1 We're so sad.

Exciting line up for @semainecannes this year presented by @AvaCahen , with @AudreyDiwan as jury president. 🎬🎥 ❤️ #Cannes2023 #SDLC2023

R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952-2023), a singular artist whose contributions to music and film remain unparalleled.

My message to #Balenciaga @KeringGroup and #DemnaGvasalia This is unacceptable!

All The Beauty And The Bloodshed is my #LFF favourite. The ending is 😭. Her sister's story is devastating. Multi-layered with politics and 6 decades of History. Gosse bumps all over. dir @laurapoitras #nangoldin #londonfilmfestival #AllTheBeautyAndTheBloodshed #film @BFI

French author Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel prize in literature 🙌. Her memoir “Happening” discusses an illegal abortion that she had in the 1960s and was adapted to cinema by ⁦⁦@AudreyDiwan⁩ #litterature #AnnieErnaux #Nobelprize theguardian.com/books/2022/oct…

Sad Terrible News for Cinema as #LFF just started. End of @edifilmfest and @filmhouse 😭Scotland is such a special and nurturing place for talents. Meanwhile in France they increase Culture budget to €4.2bn

@HelenSimmons8 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

What are the best biopic TV shows and films you've ever seen?

UK post-Brexit

#AbortionRightsAreHumanRights @cocoboer @libe #RoeVsWade #WomensRights journal.liberation.fr