France and England have spent centuries cultivating an amusing mixture of rivalry, fascination and mutual influence. The...

French and English literature are often presented as opposites. French writing is associated with philosophical rigour, ...

What does it mean to retell a story? For Claude Lelouch, the answer is not necessarily to reproduce its original charact...

Cédric Klapisch’s Russian Dolls (Les Poupées russes, 2005) is a film about romantic relationships, but it is equally a f...

Jacques Deray's Flic Story (1975) is ostensibly an Alain Delon film. Delon plays Roger Borniche, the celebrated police i...

France and Britain are separated by only a few dozen miles of water, but their comedic traditions can sometimes seem to ...

You don't have to cross the Channel to experience a little bit of France. London is home to a thriving French community ...

London and Paris are often presented as rivals. One looks across the English Channel towards the other, and comparisons ...

Gérard Oury's La Grande Vadrouille (1966) occupies a remarkable place in French popular cinema. Set during the German oc...

Few international relationships have been shaped by such a fascinating mixture of rivalry, admiration, conflict and coop...

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

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

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

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

September has a particular energy in the fashion world. While much of the northern hemisphere is preparing for autumn, d...

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

For many nations, the FIFA World Cup is the pinnacle of sporting competition. For France, it is something even greater: ...

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...

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