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Awards ceremony will take place on January 19, 2021.

Italian director Filippo Meneghetti’s debut feature Two Of Us leads the nominations in the 26th edition of France’s Lumière awards, which were unveiled online today (December 14).

The awards, which are voted on by some 130 international correspondents hailing from 40 countries, are France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.

In spite of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has delayed numerous releases this year, they have retained their traditional time slot and the awards ceremony will take place on January 19, 2021, in line with previous years.

Meneghetti’s Two Of Us is also France’s submission...

Hoping to escape the reductive “chillwave” tag, Chaz Bundick’s second album as Toro Y Moi finds the blissed-out electro-pop producer foregoing that bastard subgenre’s samples for completely organic instruments. Granted, Underneath The Pine is still pretty chill: Bundick’s music evokes an amber-colored nostalgia for the breezy grooves of ’70s soft rock and soul, all doused in reverb and digital warping. That postmodern longing for a funkier past is felt in the deep basslines and shimmering Mellotron tones of songs like “Go With You” and “Still Sound,” which recall French space-age-scavengers such as Air or Bertrand Burgalat, while ...