One of the best surprises at this year's Film Festival has been a new movie that throws new light on the people of Aubervilliers, one of the most deprived and roughest districts around Paris. The film is a daringly structured mix of a series of events all taking place during a day, interspersed with interviews with
With the 2011 Cannes Film Festival well underway on the Riviera, for the 3rd year running, a British TV company Cinémoi has been bringing fans all the backstage gossip and interviews live from the Croisette through its global TV and web coverage. Cinémoi, which launched in 2009, is the UK's first and only TV channel
Less than a year ago Cote-dweller Brian Levine (a writer, producer and actor) sat round a table in Grasse with Brit film director Kris McManus. The sun was out, the pool was glistening and they'd just sold their film 'Travellers' (which Kris directed and Brian produced) to the UK and Germany. What next? Levine
No writer has managed to capture in words the beauty of Provence and the manners of its people as well as novelist and film-maker Marcel Pagnol did, which is why his books have often been adapted into movies. Film-maker Claude Berri for instance released to critical acclaim an updated version of Jean de Florette and
Forget Tintin or Asterix the Gaul, France's new comic-strip hero is now an eight year old boy with a little round head and a blond quiff named Titeuf (Tootuff in English). Created in 1992 by Zep (the pseudonym of Swiss cartoonist Philippe Chappuis), the best selling character leads the life of your typical French
In just three weeks over 30,000 people have already visited a stunning new exhibition about film director Stanley Kubrick that is running in Paris. If you liked "The Shining", "A Clockwork Orange", "Spartacus", or "Lolita", you won't want to miss this fascinating journey through the great man's career. There are
Released on the 9th of March, Julien Leclercq's new movie L'assaut ("the Assault") recounts "one of the most successful anti-terrorist operations in history" (according to TIME Magazine) and pays tribute to the GIGN (Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale), the French Gendarmerie's elite counter-terrorism
You still have two days to enjoy movies for 3,50€ in every Pathé and Gaumont movie theatre! Every year, the Printemps du Cinema celebrates spring by lowering the price of movie tickets for three exclusive days. With 2.8 million tickets sold last year, the event confirmed the growing trend observed since its creation in
Since Colin Firth was given the Best Actor award at the Golden Globes ceremony last week, we have been inundated with recommendations from movie experts telling us to watch Tom Hooper's big sensation. The King's Speech is the must-see of the moment, and one of the main arguments for that is that it finally honors the
