Jean-Marie Poiré’s Papy fait de la résistance (1983) occupies an unusual position in French cinema. On the surface, it i...

In Delinda Jacobs’s 2017 French television series La Forêt, the forest is far more than a geographical setting for a cri...

Le Grand Bain is ostensibly a comedy about a group of middle-aged men who form an unlikely synchronised swimming team.

Florence Foresti’s Désordres initially presents itself as a familiar kind of television comedy: a successful woman in he...

Yves Angelo’s Le Colonel Chabert is, on the surface, a historical drama about a soldier who returns from the dead. Adapt...

Saint-Exupéry: The Last Romantic is less a conventional documentary than an exercise in interpretation: it constructs An...

The French series Mafiosa does not present organized crime as spectacle so much as it presents it as a governing conditi...

Beaumarchais l’insolent approaches its subject less as a historical biography than as a meditation on performance as a p...

Romantic comedies often rely on improbable circumstances, misunderstandings, and grand gestures to unite their protagoni...

Anthony Marciano's Play (2019) is, on the surface, a coming-of-age comedy that follows several decades in the life of Ma...

There are certain film series that endure because they are considered masterpieces, and then there are those that endure...

When Tenue de soirée premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1986, it arrived at a moment when French cinema was renego...

To understand modern French cinema without the Cannes Film Festival is to miss the stage on which France has most consis...

The French film Le bonheur des uns… (2020), directed by Daniel Cohen—is often framed as a social comedy about friendship...

The French mini-series Romance (created by Hervé Hadmar) presents itself as a hybrid of melodrama, fantasy, and thriller...

The work of Gilles Caron and the documentary Looking for Gilles Caron by Mariana Otero together form a meditation on one...

At first glance, the project H24 – 24 heures dans la vie d'une femme appears structurally simple: twenty-four short film...

The 2008 war film Female Agents (original title Les Femmes de l’ombre), directed by Jean-Paul Salomé and starring Sophie...

The French television series Baron Noir stands as one of the most incisive contemporary portrayals of political life in ...

The Franco-Belgian crime series Kepler(s), starring Marc Lavoine, distinguishes itself within the crowded field of Europ...