Eurofile

Godard’s A Bout De Souffle is needlessly repetitive and unbearably sexist

The art of slipping away from a party without saying goodbye is known across the Channel as ‘leaving in the English style’

Her confrontation with Pakistan’s military rulers was rooted in a lifetime of activism that began in childhood and never wavered

Trump’s public health appointees are spreading such dangerous disinformation that it’s killing Americans. The world of science has to take a stand

The Crewkerne Gazette’s right wing videos have racked up 150 million views – and their creator even claims they forced Angela Rayner out of office

Oh, Mary!, the surprise West End hit about Mrs Abraham Lincoln, is a triumph of childish, profane pointlessness

The far right populist is likely to be the next president of France. A new book explains why

A rebuilt concert hall delivers mid-century style with a dose of EU symbolism – but with big queues, and a heavy price

From Mariupol to Tehran, Cecilia Sala’s new book captures young people forced into extraordinary acts of resistance

Alessandro Mendini turned corkscrews into characters and armchairs into art. An exhibition of his work is on at the Estorick in London

The Welsh illustrator is staring down the barrel of 90, but still raging about an ‘unimaginably awful’ president – and laughing about the Gonzo genius of his own partnership with Hunter S Thompson

A landmark series of images comes to London, showing the humiliation, rage and moments of hope found in women’s jails

Amazon’s $75m documentary about the first lady is a shameful waste of time and money

Once again, the director’s Nouvelle Vague is a love letter to a cultural milieu and an enchantment in its own right

A collection of mementoes and testimonies at the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo is a timely reminder of the devastating effects of war on children

To succeed, you have to forget a fundamental law of walking in the Pyrenees: what comes down must go up

The director of the first lady’s troubled new film was the centre of serious accusations of sexual assault

Engineers warned but managers pushed on and a preventable disaster unfolded live on the world’s TV screens

It Wittgenstein had written a Tractatus Logico Humurous, would we have learned anything from it?

How a Greek word for sanctuary became one of the most contested terms in modern English

How the widow of Martin Luther King Jr transformed mourning into a lifelong movement

One guilty purchase was all it took for the algorithm to start stalking me

The veteran presenter of the BBC Radio 4 show, which I co-created, is a tough act to follow, but Misha Glenny seems equal to the task

Predator: Badlands and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy prove that some franchises improve when they stop pandering to old fans

A lost duck dish is one of the reasons Iraqis are flocking to east London restaurant Logma

A seven-million-year-old fossil continues to complicate the story of when, and how, humans first walked on two legs

Exhibitions in London and Paris show a big-time director whose remarkable attention to detail comes from thinking small

Belgian idealist Paul Otlet imagined a global information network that would unite humanity. How right – and wrong – he was

Malik Al Nasir’s search for his roots began with a racist jam mascot - and ended with him tracing his heritage to both sides of a brutal trade

Gustav Trippe’s family say his letters show his doubts about the regime - and that he was murdered for writing them