Leading French actresses cut hair in solidarity with protesting Iranian women
Issued on: 05/10/2022 - 15:20
Leading French actresses including Juliette Binoche and Isabelle Huppert have cut locks of…
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Polanski to stand trial in France for defaming accuser
Issued on: 14/09/2022 - 18:19
Veteran Franco-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski has been ordered to stand trial in France over…
French New Wave film director Jean-Luc Godard has died aged 91
Issued on: 13/09/2022 - 11:26
Film director Jean-Luc Godard, the godfather of France's New Wave cinema, died on Tuesday aged…
France vows to crack down on motorbike ‘rodeos’ after children injured
Issued on: 08/08/2022 - 15:49
The French government pledged a new crackdown Monday against illicit motorbike cruising by…
French cinema legend Jean-Louis Trintignant dies aged 91
Issued on: 17/06/2022 - 17:21
Jean-Louis Trintignant, who has died aged 91, was one of France's greatest actors whose life…
Cannes screens last testament of filmmaker killed in Ukraine’s Mariupol
Issued on: 20/05/2022 - 22:39
“Mariupolis 2”, a raw portrayal of Ukrainian civilians’ struggle for survival, was completed…
Cannes war films delve into France’s painful colonial legacies
Issued on: 19/05/2022 - 22:01
The Cannes Film Festival explored the devastating human cost of war and colonisation in…
‘Last Hollywood star of his kind’: Tom Cruise jets into Cannes for ‘Top Gun’ sequel
Tom Cruise touched down in Cannes on Wednesday to launch "Top Gun: Maverick", making his first appearance in three decades at the world's premier film festival and…
Cannes summons the undead to prove cinema is alive and kicking
Issued on: 17/05/2022 - 22:03
The 75th Cannes Film Festival kicked off on Tuesday with Michel Hazanavicius’s “Final Cut”,…
Cannes Film Festival goes back to the future with post-Covid reboot
After two years of Covid disruption, the Cannes Film Festival returns to its traditional May slot for a 75th anniversary edition stacked with celebrated auteurs and…