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François Ozon made a breakthrough in his film-making career in 2000 with an adaptation of an unproduced stage play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Water Drops on Burning Rocks. Now, to open this year’s Berlin film festival, he has returned to the dark master of New German Cinema with a gender-switched version of Fassbinder’s 1972 movie The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, that strange, angular, claustrophobic drama in which only women appear on screen.Fassbinder’s film is set entirely in the apartment of a fashion designer…

Director François Ozon has had something of a lifelong creative crush on Rainer Werner Fassbinder. An early career breakthrough for Ozon came with the mannered but amusing ménage-à-quatre Water Drops on Burning Rocks, based on a stage play that Fassbinder wrote when he was still in his teens. Now Ozon consummates his ongoing flirtation with the German auteur with his latest picture, a gender-swapped reworking of Fassbinder’s 1972 film The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.French actor Denis Ménochet stars as Peter, a…

| François Corteggiani was a prodigious French comic book writer, editor and artist who studied art, and worked in advertising and illustration before creating his first comic in 1974 for SEPP, drawing over a thousand pages for the Lyon publisher, and then Mucheroum for Spirou magazine. Along with Michel Motti, he drew the BD comic Pif le chien for the longstanding Pif Gadget comic book anthology as well as creating Disney comic book stories for Le Journal de Mickey, writing over 1500 stories for the publisher since…

From unsplashFrom Francois Chollet: “On the Measure of Intelligence”Throughout history, the measure of intelligence has been changed wildly to adapt to shifting thought and attitudes towards different groups of people and animals. In recent decades, the possibility of intelligence is being extended towards machines.Many have attempted to articulate criteria of intelligence in terms of language: there is room here to slide around, and the application of intelligence is something which must be evaluated by an external agent…

Using Gurobi and the knapsack problem to find an optimal solutionSource: https://unsplash.com/photos/u0vgcIOQG08Without knowing, people are constantly trying to optimize their lives. For instance, by going on vacation, you decide that the trip is worth it, even if it comes at a financial cost.Sadly, you cannot spend all your time seeking only pleasure. Most people must think about their longterm wellbeing as well.Indeed, on a given morning, an individual could prefer going skydiving instead of going to work. However,…

André (André Dussollier) is not a man who is accustomed to having his wishes thwarted. So when, after a debilitating stroke, he decides that he wants to end his life, he is not open to a debate on the matter. This places his two adult daughters, Emmanuelle (Sophie Marceau) and Pascale (Géraldine Pailhas), in a tricky position. In Paris, where they live, assisted suicide is illegal. His only option is to travel to Switzerland. But if they are suspected of helping him, his daughters might face prosecution. Not to mention…

Writing your very own personal Python packageSource: https://unsplash.com/photos/H424WdcQN4YWhen you have been working with data for a while, you quickly realize that big parts of your code could be reused from one project to the next.In the following article, I will show you a very easy and efficient way to create your personal python “package”, allow you to reuse potentially huge chunks of code with just a couple lines as long as you are on-premise (same computer and using personal files).Steps to creating your personal…