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… a confection of missed chances.
Co-writer/director Thierry Klifa may not be the richest man in the world, but his film The Richest Woman in the World was the most popular at the recent Alliance Francais
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A nimble, well-scripted crime drama set in Paris, what’s not to like?
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A French Succession and perverse power game in the glossy beauty industry. Calling all Huppert fans, Francophiles, and fashionistas ….
The French filmmaker adapts Victor Hugo with his muse, actor Grégory Gadebois
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… intensely effective …
A former high school English teacher who lived in the UK for five years as a teenager, French actress Camille Cottin, 47, is understandably, fluent in English. After she gained
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… a mature work that is never not entertaining.
The passing of Brigitte Bardot has prompted many people to wonder, “Um… Why was she famous again?” After all, she hadn’t made a movie since 1973, and whenever her name
Emmanuel Courcol is feeling vexed. The French writer-director has spent years working on My Brother’s Band, his new film set in the world of conducting. “Now there are so many