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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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