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...

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

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

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

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

In France, asparagus isn’t just a vegetable—it’s a seasonal marker, a quiet announcement that spring has matured into so...

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

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

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

Paris in the spring is less a season and more a mood—soft light on limestone façades, café terraces filling back up, and...

Children carry paper fish in their pockets. Bakeries fill their windows with chocolate sea creatures. And somewhere, at ...

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...

French history is often told through a familiar pantheon of kings, generals, philosophers, and revolutionaries—figures w...

Paris may be the “City of Love,” but the most memorable dates here rarely happen on February 14.They happen on quiet Thu...

The Olympic flame burns brightly — and briefly. Stadiums roar, medals are awarded, flags are raised. And then, almost ov...

Le Journal d'une femme de chambre occupies a singular place in the filmography of Luis Buñuel. Adapted from the novel by...

The 2000 film Le Goût des autres (The Taste of Others), directed by Agnès Jaoui and co-written with Jean-Pierre Bacri, s...