French cinema

The Return of “My Favorite Season,” a Great Modern Melodrama
April 28, 2025
Melodrama isn’t central to modern French cinema, because melodrama is rooted in irony, whereas one could hardly slip a playing card between most great French directors’ intentions and results....
The Hitchcockian Wonders of “Misericordia”
March 21, 2025
The vitality of classic formats such as thrillers and mysteries comes not from their nostalgic reminders of old movies but from their power to inspire and embody new ideas...
Leos Carax’s Self-Portrait Film “It’s Not Me” Is So Him
December 11, 2024
Fully half of the best films ever—from Charlie Chaplin’s to Claude Lanzmann’s—are replete with cinematic selfies. Yet they are rare over all, perhaps because the camera is an unflinching...
France cinema boss gets 3-year jail term in sexual assault case
June 28, 2024
The head of France's top cinema institution, Dominique Boutonnat, was on Friday given a three-year prison sentence, two of them suspended, after being convicted of sexually assaulting his godson...