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Assane Diop won’t be bidding au revoir just yet. Netflix has officially announced that Lupin, a hit French mystery thriller series starring Omar Sy, will be returning for Part 4. In an announcement uploaded on YouTube, the streaming giant harks back to the first three seasons of Lupin with a series of photos from Parts 1 to 3, along with a picturesque backdrop that shows where some of the scenes were filmed. The video then jumps to Sy wearing his customary Stetson Belfast cap before it was ultimately revealed that production for the upcoming season has now commenced.

The newly released announcement video takes viewers back to the iconic locations of the first three seasons of Lupin, paired with an exciting update that production is now underway for the new season. Apart from Sy reprising his “suave gentleman thief” role, nothing much has been revealed yet about what Part 4 will entail. However,...

Nobody really makes AIDS dramas anymore, which seems as good a reason as any to make one now. The disease that, forty-odd years ago, decimated a generation of queer people and prompted a prejudice-driven global panic hasn’t gone away — least of all in various developing countries, where it isn’t popularly defined by gender or sexuality, and death rates are still high. But its narrative has changed. For many, advances in antiretroviral and preventative drugs have stripped HIV of its aura of terror, making it something to be lived with, not a ticking clock to the end. With little posturing or overtly groundbreaking intent, French writer-director Gaël Morel unusually and sensitively bridges these eras of HIV/AIDS in his gentle romantic melodrama “To Live, To Die, To Live Again” — beginning in a distinctly Nineties register of mainstream queer cinema, before looking ahead to the 21st century.

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