On a bright Sunday afternoon in Paris, in a packed cinema, applause erupts as end credits roll on the screen. The film that just concluded is neither the latest superhero blockbuster nor a mainstream ...

At the advent of a wave of leftist student and worker protests in 1968 that would engulf France for several years, French cinema was in a state of flux. Gone were the days of blissful political ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about women in comedy. The highest-grossing film in French History is, curiously, an American film: Titanic. However, the ...

My Journey Through French Cinema (2017), Bertrand Tavernier’s César-nominated three-and-a-half-hour tour through French film history, was too short to introduce audiences to all that he wanted to ...

Brigitte Bardot founded her namesake foundation in 1986, fighting fur trapping, seal hunting, and animal abuse worldwide ...

The French movie industry has been celebrating statistics that show an increase in movie attendance. By Richard Fausset Reporting from Paris Ronald Chammah, who owns a pair of small cinemas on the ...