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Front Row: Nicolas Cage film Pig, Singer-songwriter Moses Sumney, The White Lotus, Sisters

20/08/2021

Nicolas Cage film Pig, Singer-songwriter Moses Sumney, The White Lotus, Sisters

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Nicolas Cage film Pig, Singer-songwriter Moses Sumney at the Proms, comedy The White Lotus

Singer-songwriter Moses Sumney on singing at the Proms, and Michael Sarnoski on his film with Nicolas Cage about a truffle hunter whose beloved, essential pig is kidnapped.

Michael Sarnoski is the director and co-writer of Pig, starring Nicolas Cage and a pig that is brilliant at finding truffles – until it’s stolen. Cage’s trip to the culinary hot spots of the big city to find his pig reveals more about his past and explores ideas of grief, redemption, and what to value in life.  The director joins Front Row to talk about casting Cage – and casting the right pig.

The singer-songwriter Moses Sumney has an extraordinary and distinctive voice and his songs challenge traditional ideas about love or identity.  At the BBC Proms tomorrow night he’ll be performing songs from his albums Aromanticism and græ in new arrangements with Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.  He talks to Front Row about his voice, words and music. 

Mike White’s new HBO / Sky Atlantic television comedy drama series The White Lotus is a look at how the other half lives as it follows a group of hotel guests holidaying in a luxurious Hawaiian paradise, starring Jennifer Coolidge, Murray Bartlett, Connie Britton and Natasha Rothwell.  In a world which is more deeply divided between the haves and the have nots than ever, how successful is The White Lotus as a satire of inequality?
Critic Leila Latif reviews.

Inspired by the story of the Zohra orchestra – Afghanistan’s only all-female orchestra – British musician Dan Blackwell composed a new work for them. He got himself to Kabul, to record the musicians playing the piece. The results can be seen in a new documentary, Sisters, that premieres this week at the Chichester International Film Festival.  Dan joins Front Row to discuss the making of his film.

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