Class and comedy at the movies. Plus: women respond to Harvey Weinstein

Life and Art from FT Weekend

Forhecz Topher

Tv & Film, Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week, we compare a London comedy (Sally Potter's The Party) with a New York one (Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories). Gris is conflicted about #MeTo, the social media campaign highlighting the prevalence of sexual harassment. And Al speaks to the poet and playwright Inua Ellams.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Everything Else, the FTs Culture Podcast.
0:08.0	I'm Gris.
0:09.0	And I'm Al. This week we'll be discussing two new films, The Party and the Myrovit stories,
0:15.0	and what they say about British and American humour.
0:18.0	And later on, Al will chat to the poet, playwright and performer in
0:22.3	Eweer Ellens. We have a new Facebook page. Come and chat with us at facebook.com slash everything else
0:29.6	podcast. Hi, Gris. I'm morning, Al.
0:38.3	How you doing?
0:39.2	I'm well.
0:41.1	I've been doing a lot of thinking this week, specifically thinking about the whole Harvey Weinstein.
0:48.4	What do you even call it?
0:49.7	Well, I think we can call it a catastrophe, a scandal, like a horror show.
0:54.7	A horror show.
0:55.4	A shit show.
0:56.5	I think we can call it that.
0:57.3	I think we can do that.
0:58.4	Yeah.
0:58.9	And so in the last week, there has also been a very interesting female response to what's been happening.
1:06.2	The hashtag Me Too has, of course, been trending on Twitter.
1:09.6	And this is where women have been expressing
1:12.6	and confessing their own experiences of sexual harassment, assault, everyday sexism.
1:19.7	And it's really taken off.
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