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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

There is something slightly absurd about watching the World Cup in Paris. The matches might be taking place thousands of...

There is a particular kind of summer romance that seems to exist more easily in France than almost anywhere else. It is ...

Every summer, millions of people arrive in France with remarkably similar plans. They spend a few days in Paris, head so...