Chloe Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’ Selected to Open Denver Film Festival — Film News in Brief

Cannes wrapped a late, and truncated, version of its 2020 film festival on Thursday, just hours before all of France went into a second coronavirus lockdown. The French Tech, a comedy from director Bruno Podalydès, closed the three-day mini-festival at 8 p.m.

Death on the Nile features comedy duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders in a more serious big-budget affair than they're used to.Joining Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford on today's (October 20) edition of This Morning, French (who plays Mrs Bowers opposite Saunders' Marie van Schuyler) hailed director Sir Kenneth Branagh for his "brave" decision with the casting.

Hot Priest” — it’s time for the “Hot Chef.”French actor and model Lucas Bravo, 32, is taking the world by storm in Netflix hit “Emily In Paris.”But before landing the role in the popular new show that follows Emily (Lily Collins), an American hired by a French marketing firm, Bravo had a markedly different look — including long hair and a beard that made him look more like an extra on “Game of Thrones.”“Wow, I love the long hair!” some fans raved on his old Instagram photos.English-speaking

Kaleem Aftab The hallmarks of screenwriter Michel Audiard – slang-laden dialogue, absurd situations and explosive confrontations – are all in evidence in Gilles Grangier’s “The Night Affair” (“Le Désordre et la nuit”), screening at the Lumière Film Festival as part of the program marking the centenary of Audiard’s birth.The celebration features 18 films scripted by Audiard, one of his directorial efforts, “Don’t Take God’s Children for Wild Geese,” a pastiche of the hardboiled detective

Lucas Bravo opened up about how common threesomes are in France and whether he’s ever had one.“I’ve never experienced one, but I guess it’s a reality and it’s not even in France,” the Emily in Paris star, 32, said on the Friday, October 16, episode of SiriusXM’s The Michelle Collins Show. “I think it’s everywhere.

“Emily In Paris” star Lucas Bravo spoke about France’s relationship with threesomes, toxic masculinity and more in a new interview with SiriusXM’s “The Michelle Collins Show”.

Lucas Bravo is opening up about his sex life.

Ed Meza @edmezavarThe Lumière Festival’s Classic Film Market (MIFC) in Lyon, France, is spotlighting efforts in Portugal to digitize and preserve the nation’s film heritage as part of this year’s country focus.Portugal is a good representation of what is happening in Europe, according to MIFC program coordinator Gérald Duchaussoy.The Cinemateca Portuguesa has agreements with rights holders and distributors, organizes events, promotes Portuguese cinema at festivals, digitizes and restores films

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentDealing with a surge in COVID-19 cases, France has imposed a nightly curfew in Paris and eight other cities, which could potentially put some film releases and shoots on ice.Announced by President Emmanuel Macron during a televised address on Wednesday, the curfew will kick off on Saturday and remain in place for six weeks, running from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMK2, a family-owned French film company boasting a prominent arthouse cinema chain in Paris and in Spain, is staging various events to turn the spotlight on classics from Charles Chaplin to Claude Chabrol and Abbas Kiarostami which are part of its impressive library of 600 movies.MK2’s CEO Nathanael Karmitz has been invited by Thierry Fremaux, the chief of Cannes Film Festival and the ongoing Lumiere Festival in Lyon, to deliver a masterclass on Tuesday

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentBefore borders closed due to the pandemic, Sigourney Weaver was able to travel to Paris in January to shoot a highly anticipated episode of “Call My Agent!,” the hit French series that’s available on Netflix worldwide.  The first international actor to participate in the ensemble series, Weaver was quick to accept the part which sees her taking part in a French movie.  The experience allowed her to dive into comedy which she rarely does, as well as

Emily in Paris, people in France have slammed the tale of an American girl who takes a job in the City of Lights, calling it “a cliché.” One of the show’s stars, Lucas Bravo, thinks the French have a point.“I think they’re right, in a way,” the 32-year-old Frenchman, who plays Gabriel, Emily’s (Lily Collins) neighbor and love interest, told Cosmopolitan in an interview posted on Friday, October 9. “We’re portraying cliches and we’re portraying one single vision of Paris.

Lise Pedersen “Ouf!” – “Phew!” in French: the sigh of relief was the first word to appear in the inaugural clip at the opening ceremony of Lyon’s Lumière Festival, which kicked off on Saturday night as the city was put on maximum alert amid the coronavirus pandemic.While attendance numbers are limited, cinemas remain open in France and the festival will be able to go ahead as planned.Led by Thierry Frémaux, who is also head of the Cannes Festival, it is one of the world’s leading classic film

Lucas Bravo, the breakout star of the Netflix series Emily in Paris, keeps getting compared to Armie Hammer and now he’s reacting to the comments!

New Netflix rom-com “Emily in Paris” has not enchanted French critics, who have blasted the show with complaints that it’s bursting with stereotypes about the French.