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ABBA dismisses reunion talk

ABBA members Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus have dismissed a reunion at next year’s Eurovision Song Contest in their native Sweden, which will also mark the 50th anniversary of when the supergroup won the competition with Waterloo.

In an interview with Britain’s BBC Newsnight last week, the pair ruled out taking to the stage with fellow members Agnetha Faltskog and AnniFrid Lyngstad for the occasion.

One snapper’s take on Cannes

When Eric Gaillard first went to photograph the Cannes Film Festival in 1981, it was a smaller, more intimate affair — the kind of place where you could see the greats from Hollywood’s Golden Age like Lauren Bacall or Ava Gardner wandering alone on the esplanade or having fun on the beach without bodyguards.

Returning for his 40th time, Gaillard says he finds a different beast — larger, more multicultural, with more restrictions on where photographers can stand to try and get that viral snap or capture that moment when a movie star gets caught off-guard sharing an intimate smile, striking a goofy pose, or having a bad hair day.

Critics drool over ‘food porn’ story The kitchen of a 19th-century French chateau is home to an endless gastronomic feast in The Pot-au-Feu, an ode to food with a simmering love story at its heart which left Cannes critics drooling. The film by Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung, which premiered at the festival last week, stars former real-life lovers Juliette Binoche and Benoit Magimel in the roles of cook and gourmand aristocrat.

Their romance slowly unfolds in the background of clanging pans, sizzling veal and poaching fish as complex sauces meld together.