Wigs and Candles

What happens when you create a period drama with a young, North American audience in mind? And when you add on one of the most successful Black, female producers in television to helm the show? Bridgerton , that’s what you get!  In this episode, we bring a very special guest, our sister Adriana, a mechanical engineer in the sunny Silicon Valley in California who also happens to be a huge TV series...

How many times have you seen a dark-skinned woman wearing a high-society 18th-century dress in history books? How much do you know about the lives of people of colour in the 18th century in England? (at least those who were not enslaved) And here’s one more: how often have you seen a Black woman starring in a period film?   With these and a few other challenging questions, we invite you to listen...

Did you ever wonder what it must have been like for Marie Antoinette when the riots of the French Revolution started to heat up the mood in the country? Did you ever wonder what it must have been like to be in the Versaille Palace and witness the uncertainty among the royals on the verge of free-fall? What happened behind those walls? How did those days pass for those living inside? In the film  “...

Take a Jane Austen classic, a Taiwanese director, a novice screenplay-writer and some of the best actors in England from the early 1990s and voilà! You get an unforgettable film adaptation of one of the most famous love stories in British literature.  This award-winning version of Sense & Sensibility stole our hearts many years ago and still today it makes us fall in awe of its humour, its portray...

“A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.” Pure Poetry that is! And so is the next film we review on this new episode: Cyrano de Bergerac.  The 1990 film adaptation of this classic of French literature is one of our all-time favorites, a fast-paced story with no redundancies.  Starring Gerard Depardieu in what became his most pivotal performance, a very young and handsome Vincent Perez...

It’s 1908. Europe is at peace. The upper-middle class is living carefree.  Now, picture Italy, its warmth, its sunlight-bathed landscapes.  Picture Florence and a young handsome couple.  Picture England’s countryside with green pastures and people playing feather ball.  You’re now immersed in the setting of a beautiful story about love, romance, society expectations, heart’s desires, and intrigues...

Why would two Latin American sisters do a podcast about period films, a genre dominated by European films? This is the departing question for this first episode as Gabriela (calling from Germany) and Andreina (connecting from Canada) explore the origins of their obsession. Join us as we reminisce about growing in Maracaibo, Venezuela—the hottest city in the country—and dreaming about far away plac...

missing description