{"id":36549,"date":"2026-06-02T11:18:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/36549\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:18:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:18:42","slug":"peaky-blinders-star-joe-cole-and-director-clio-barnard-on-class-masculinity-and-modern-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/36549\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Peaky Blinders&#8217; star Joe Cole and director Clio Barnard on class, masculinity and modern Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"&#039;Peaky Blinders&#039; star Joe Cole and director Clio Barnard on class, masculinity and modern Britain\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6FvhJa0ybV8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8216;Peaky Blinders&#8217; star Joe Cole and director Clio Barnard on class, masculinity and modern Britain<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPremiering in the Directors&#8217; Fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival, &#8220;I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning&#8221; is Clio Barnard&#8217;s adaptation of Keiran Goddard&#8217;s acclaimed novel about five childhood friends from working-class Birmingham whose lives have drifted far from the futures they once imagined. &#8220;Peaky Blinders&#8221; actor Joe Cole stars as Rian \u2013\u00a0the one who escaped, made money and seemingly &#8220;made it&#8221;, only to discover that success cannot free him from the place he came from.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to arts24&#8217;s Eve Jackson on the Croisette, Barnard and Cole discuss Birmingham identity, modern masculinity, class divisions and the universal experience of mourning the life you thought you&#8217;d have by the age of 30.<br \/>\n#PeakyBlinders #JoeCole #ClioBarnard<\/p>\n<p>Read more about this story in our article: https:\/\/f24.my\/BxiH.y<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Peaky Blinders&#8217; star Joe Cole and director Clio Barnard on class, masculinity and modern Britain Premiering in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[10074,5469,32408,1241,3192,22,23,20,21,36668,36669,36670,36672,36673,36671,19548,16701],"class_list":["post-36549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france24","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-cinema","tag-clio-barnard","tag-culture","tag-films","tag-france-24","tag-france-24-english","tag-france24","tag-france24-english","tag-i-see-buildings-fall-like-lightning","tag-joe-cole","tag-keiran-goddard","tag-masculinity","tag-modern-britain","tag-peaky-blinders","tag-series","tag-uk-culture"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116680324806832227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}