French Classic Film Distributors Potemkine, City Films, Argos Explore Novel Strategies

Darren Star was in New York, readying production on the seventh (and what he envisions as final) season of TV Land favorite Younger when, like many, the pandemic stopped him in his tracks. Instead of another location shoot, the months that followed saw the prolific creator of Sex and the City, Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place and, more recently, Emily in Paris spending his surplus of free time with 9-year-old son Evan.

following on Instagram — meet the real-life “Emily in Paris!”Go-getter Emily Jackson, 28, has been hooked on the smash-hit TV comedy ever since its release this month on Netflix because the premise bears a striking similarity to her own experience.“Not only do I share the name and career of the main character, but much of the plot resonates with me,” Jackson told The Post.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorIn another blow to the industry, the French government has ordered a curfew in several major cities across the country. From Saturday, residents of L’Ile de France (which includes Paris and its environs), Lyon, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Lille, Grenoble, Montpellier, Rouen, Toulouse and Saint-Etienne will be under a strict curfew from 9PM to 6AM.

Michelle Pfeiffer has been receiving rave reviews for her role as a well-to-do New Yorker who flees to Paris with her son (Lucas Hedges) as she burns through her savings in the New York Film Festival's closing night movie, Azazel Jacobs' French Exit.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“Mama Weed,” Jean-Paul Salomé’s comedy starring Oscar-nominated actor Isabelle Huppert (“Elle”) as a French-Arabic translator working for the anti-drug squad in Paris, has been thriving at the box office in France, Germany and Austria. “Mama Weed,” based on Hannelore Cayre’s popular novel, follows the story of Patience Portefeux (Huppert), who gets embroiled in a failed drug deal, inheriting a pile of marijuana.

Ed Meza @edmezavarPortuguese film distributor Midas Filmes has picked up a slew of new acquisitions, including Nanni Moretti’s upcoming “Three Floors,” Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Memoria” and Daniele Luchetti’s “The Ties,” which opened this year’s Venice Film Festival.The Lisbon-based company, which is taking part in this year’s International Classic Film Market (MIFC) focus on Portugal in Lyon, France, has also recently picked up Belgian helmer Lucas Belvaux’s “Home Front,” starring Gérard

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

Playing a 65-year-old New York high-society widow who burns through her savings and moves to Paris with her son in Azazel Jacobs'French Exit, Michelle Pfeiffer sucks the juice from each line like a Louisianan devouring a crawfish. It's a full-on diva turn — a smorgasbord of side-eye and shade, of lacerating one-liners dispatched between drags on cigarettes and slurps of martinis.

Also Read: 'The War With Grandpa' Film Review: Robert De Niro Mildly Kills Time, So Audiences Can Do Likewise“I don’t like these people,” says one character after spending a bit too long in Frances’ parlor. “They’re not normal people!”He’s right, of course — they’re not normal people.

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.

The New York Film Festival comes to a close with the world premiere of “French Exit”, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges.

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Emily in Paris? The Netflix show starring Lily Collins debuted over the weekend, quickly becoming the number one show for the streaming service.While the dreamy landscape and super chic fashion have Us longing for a trip to Paris, we’re tiding ourselves over by chatting with William Abadie, who plays one of Emily’s clients, the super sexy perfumer Antoine Lambert.The French star spoke exclusively with Us about fragrance, revealing the difference between French and American’s attitudes towards

AlloCiné has seen many a negative review posted with one critic giving it only half a star out of five.They wrote: ‘A series that could have been great if it hadn’t caricatured the French.’‘In this series the French are described as arrogant, dirty, lazy, mean, bitter… but luckily this young American arrives to explain to us how life works.’‘It’s just deplorable, I wonder how French actors were able to agree to play in this series.’Whatever guys, you didn’t have to endure P.S.

“The Searcher,” by Tana French (Viking)Cal Hooper, a Chicago cop whose wife has left him for reasons he does not yet understand, tells himself he’s done with police work. He retires from the force, moves to western Ireland, buys an abandoned country house, and sets to work fixing it up.

The City of Light is pretty dark on Netflix's new seriesEmily in Paris, with Parisians up in arms over theromantic comedy which stars Lily Collins as an American naif overcoming all manner of French stereotypes in her pursuit to become a social media guru. Created by Darren Star (Sex and the City, Beverly Hills 90210) and produced by MTV Studios, Emily in Paris debuted on Netflix worldwide on Oct.