French Filmmakers Start to Dig Into Genre Fare

re-election bid. The court revealed the sentence could be served at home.Sarkozy was not present at the Paris court for the verdict's announcement.

A man has been found guilty of murdering his French wife after he stabbed her to death in their Dublin apartment almost four years ago.

Prince Andrew is allegedly set to sell his £17m Swiss chalet amid a legal battle with the property's previous owner. The Duke of York and ex-wife Sarah Ferguson were sued by Isabelle de Rouvre for the £6.6m she claims they still owe her, the Mirror reports.

Guy Lodge Film CriticWhenever a film begins with a disclaimer asserting that the story you’re about to see is fictional — and furthermore, that what shall unfold on-screen “should not be considered a reflection of a reality” — it’s hard not to go in assuming the exact opposite.

Actress Jenny Kavanagh has swapped the sun, sea and superyachts of the French Riviera for the mean streets of Carrigstown.

Anna Marie de la Fuente The idea for the documentary “Reinventing Mirazur,” which follows Argentine Chef Mauro Colagreco and the profound transformation he and his three-Michelin star restaurant Mirazur undergo, began in faraway Japan where French filmmakers Franck Ribière and Vérane Frediani met him while he participated in the Cook Japan event organized by restaurateur Yuji Shimoyama.Colagreco was among the 32 chefs invited from all over the world by Shimoyama to display their cooking

Recently, it was revealed that Wes Anderson’s upcoming film, “The French Dispatch,” would not only feature a soundtrack with Alexandre Desplat’s beautiful score, but it would also be accompanied by an entire companion album with French classics covered by singer-songwriter Jarvis Cocker. And one of those songs is “Aline,” which now has a brand-new music video directed by none other than Anderson himself.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's divorce was finalized in 2019, but the former pair are still at odds over a lavish estate they co-own in France, according to a court filing obtained by Fox News. The complaint, which was filed on Tuesday in Luxembourg, accuses the "Maleficent" star, 46, of attempting to offload her 50% share in the 1,000-acre, $164 million Chateau Miraval in Correns, France without allegedly allowing Pitt, 57, the first option to buy her out.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s divorce just got messier. The two are now battling it out over Château Miraval, the $164 million vineyard that they both own in France.

Brad Pitt has reportedly brought a new lawsuit against estranged wife Angelina Jolie concerning the couple’s French vineyard. According to DailyMail.

Quantic Dream, the studio behind Detroit: Become Human and Heavy Rain, has successfully sued Le Monde for libel, after the French newspaper published stories alleging a harmful work culture.Quantic Dream had sued both Le Monde and Mediapart, an online investigative journal, for stories published in 2018 that it said damaged the studio’s reputation.

Ben Croll Accounting for 40% of all selected projects, French productions will dominate this year’s Toulouse-set Cartoon Forum for reasons that far exceed home field advantage.

Gojira have become the latest band to have some fossils named after them.The French metal band have had a trio of “brittle star fossils” named in their honour by scientists at Luxembourg’s Natur Musee and America’s Florida Museum (via Kerrang!).The brittle stars, which are a similar shape to starfish, were discovered in France, Luxembourg and Austria on what was once the Jurassic Tethys Ocean bed.The scientists named the three fossils Ophiogojira labadiei, Ophiogojira andreui and

Jennifer Yuma editorThe Hamptons Intl. Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Matthew Heineman’s “The First Wave” on Oct.

Stéphane Brizé’s “Another World” could make for a worthy conclusion to an unofficial trilogy on contemporary economic relations, following the French filmmaker’s recent efforts “The Measure of a Man” and “At War.” Each work deploys the empathy machine of cinema to demonstrate the brokenness of a system powered by a dehumanizing focus on profits over all else, albeit leveling that critique from a different vantage point at each step along the way.

TELLURIDE – Every major film festival has a specific aesthetic that lets them stand apart from their peers. Sundance has the snowy Main Street of Park City and buzzworthy building public audiences.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent“Ennio,” the hotly anticipated Ennio Morricone doc by Oscar-winning Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore has sold to a slew of territories ahead of its world premiere Friday at the Venice Film FestivalBlock 2 Distribution, which is the sales arm of Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai’s Jet Tone films, has announced sales of the doc to Germany and Austria (Koch Media), Benelux (Periscope), France (Le Pacte), Scandinavia and Baltics (Non Stop Entertainment),