The picks
One good thing from Europe, every weekday.
Films, series, albums, podcasts, books and products we think deserve a place in your week. Pick a type below, or just scroll.
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Film: The Great Arch (L’Inconnu de la Grande Arche) 🇫🇷
In 1983, an almost unknown Danish professor won the competition for a new Paris monument. The Great Arch tells the true story of his…
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Series: Portobello 🇮🇹
In 1983, Italy’s favourite TV host was shown in handcuffs for crimes he never committed. Marco Bellocchio tells his story in Portobello.
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Podcast: The Europeans; “Every @#$%ing quirk of the English language” 🇪🇺
The Europeans, a weekly podcast from Paris and Amsterdam, asks why English is so strange. Perfect for anyone who speaks it as a second…
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Music: How To Land a Plane · 7ebra 🇸🇪
7ebra, twin sisters from Malmö, made How To Land a Plane: funny, noisy indie pop about adult life without a manual.
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Film: The Peasants (Chłopi) 🇵🇱
More than 40,000 oil paintings, brought to life frame by frame by the team behind Loving Vincent. The story follows Jagna, a young woman…
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Music: People of the Moon · Nu Genea 🇮🇹
Two producers from Naples have spent years digging through their city’s musical past like archaeologists. On their third album they go further: Brazilian MPB,…
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Book: Checkout 19 · Claire-Louise Bennett 🇮🇪
A girl falls in love with reading, and then can’t help becoming a writer herself. There is almost no plot, just memories, books and…
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Music: How Have You Been? · Giant Rooks 🇩🇪
Five friends from Hamm, a small German city better known for its train junction, are now at the top of the German charts. Their…
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Phone: Volla 🇩🇪
Most phones want your data before you finish setting them up. Volla, a small German phone maker, starts from the opposite idea: a phone…
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Series: Die Kaiserin (The Empress) 🇩🇪
Netflix reimagines Empress Sisi’s early years as raw, dramatic and unapologetically emotional, not the sanitized legend everyone grew up with.
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