French minister to appear on Playboy front cover

PARIS (Reuters) - French junior social affairs minister Marlene Schiappa is facing criticism from her own party for posing in a white dress for the cover of Playboy, with French media reporting Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne called Schiappa to express her displeasure. The furor comes at a time of social unrest in the country as the government is facing a big backlash over pension reforms.

Gerald Darmanin has defended Marlene Schiappa's playboy cover photoshoot. The minister for the social economy was fully clothed for the shoot for the April edition of the magazine in France.

Marlene Schiappa will be on the cover of the French edition of the magazine fully clothed and has given an interview to the publication on women’s rights and LGBTQ+ issues. Ms Shiappa, who is the current minister for the social economy and French associations, has long campaigned for gender equality and spearheaded a French law banning cat-calling and the harassment of women. Her decision has prompted criticism from politicians in France as the country is rocked by widespread unrest at president Emmanual Macron’s reforms to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.

battling strikes and increasingly violent demonstrations against plans to raise the retirement age by two years. Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, who is only the second woman to occupy the position, called Schiappa personally to tell her that it "was not at all appropriate, especially in the current period", an aide told AFP on Saturday. Schiappa is currently the minister for the social economy and French associations.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Cinema, as an artform, relies on two tools — sight and sound — to fool us into believing that all five of our senses are being stimulated. That makes Léa Mysius’ more-intriguing-than-successful supernatural thriller, “The Five Devils,” a very curious animal indeed, since it focuses on a young girl with an exceptionally strong sense of smell, a phenomenon its director can show but never properly reproduce. Eight-year-old Vicky (Sally Dramé) would be right at home as one of the young mutants in an “X-Men” movie, so hypersensitive are her olfactory skills. A future perfume designer perhaps, the frizzy-haired kid spends her free time collecting odoriferous scraps from her life and environment and storing them in neatly labeled jars. When her mother Joanne (Adèle Exarchopoulos) discovers Vicky’s gift during a walk in the woods, she blindfolds her daughter and tries to hide under a pile of wet leaves. Sniffing the air, Vicky manages to locate Joanne almost immediately.

The only reason Murder Mystery 2 or even its predecesor exists is as a star vehicle in the most literal sense of the word. The recipe is simple: Sign Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, put them in glamorous locations with lots of action and schtick, and then set it loose on a global platform – Netflix – that can easily sell these kinds of recognizable shenanigans in all points of the world. It worked in 2019, and it works again now, only this time with the action and stunts so ramped up they almost overtake the plot, such as it is. The template and characters were firmly established in the original which had our stars caught up in a murder in which they were suspects, but eventually save the day before the entire cast of characters wind up dead in the process.

The Hollywood Reporter & Jimmy Choo Power Stylists Dinner on Tuesday, March 28. And nothing complements a retro look better than a few modern touches, like the rapper's stunningly chic .Meg's overall beauty look was, of course, flawless. The voluminous curls she's been sporting lately welcomed bangs last night, and the highlight on her brow bone corresponded perfectly with the pale gold of her strapless bra top and flared pants.

, and —when it comes to trend-sparking manicures, Jennifer Lopez always, well, nails it. Nail artist shared his latest creation for the pop star on Monday, March 27, with an Instagram frame that featured a set of pearlescent almond nails punctuated by a near-transparent French tip. “Micro French Fantasy,” captioned Bachik, offering the look a prophetically viral name.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent France engaged in a record 144 international co-productions in 2022, while the number of majority French movies produced dropped by 10% to 208 titles, according to a study unveiled by the National Film Board (CNC). For the first time since 2003, half of the movies produced in France were international co-productions (with 33 countries) last year, compared with 42.1 % in 2021 and 39.6 % between 2017 and 2019. Investment in films dropped by 12.8% to €1.18 billion ($1.30 billion) compared with 2021, while foreign investment broke a 10-year record. In France, TV channels as well as streamers (since the start of 2022) are required to invest a percentage of annual revenue on French and European productions. As such, they invested a total of €280.78 million in 159 films in 2022, a 8.3 % drop compared with the average invested between 2017 and 2019.

Finding their way! Ashley Tisdale got real about how welcoming her daughter, Jupiter, affected her relationship with husband Christopher French.

The French movie sector saw investment and activity return to pre-pandemic levels in 2022, while streamer contributions rose, according to the annual production report of France’s National Cinema Centre.

King Charles and Camilla, the Queen Consort, have officially kicked off their new reign as Britain's monarchs, touching down in Germany for their first foreign trip. The king and his wife were greeted with a 21-gun salute and two flyover jets upon their arrival.They were also met by supporters as they descended from their plane, making their way to their vehicle.

Paramount will give Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon a theatrical release in France from October 18, Deadline has confirmed, in a move that will make the film subject to the country’s strict windowing rules.

Depeche Mode performed their track ‘Wagging Tongue’ from new album ‘Memento Mori‘ on French TV last month – watch the newly-aired footage below.The synth-pop duo – comprising Dave Gahan and Martin Gore – performed the atmospheric track on French music television show Taratata, which aired Saturday (March 25).The song – one of three songwriting credits Gahan has on ‘Memento Mori’ – is track number two on the album, which NME said in a four-star review was “their best work this century”.Check out footage of the performance below.The band also performed ‘Personal Jesus’, ‘Ghosts Again‘ and ‘Precious’, which you can watch below.In a recent interview with NME, Gore reflected on how Gahan’s writing “gets better with each record we do”, adding “that’s interesting to see”.The new album is Depeche Mode’s first since the loss of bandmate Andy Fletcher. Speaking to NME last year, Gahan said: “Fletch was probably, let’s just say, the least of all of us in terms of excesses.

A fashion icon! Beyoncé is the cover star of Vogue France’s April 2023 issue and designed 16 Renaissance-inspired dresses.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Juliette Binoche, Laure Calamy (“Call My Agent!”), Camille Cottin (“Stillwater”) and Michel Hazanavicius (“The Artist”) are among the 300 stars who signed an open letter addressed to France President Emmanuel Macron to demand the withdrawal of the retirement bill. The letter was published in French newspaper Liberation ahead of massive and fiery protests that rallied more than a million people across the country on Thursday, according to local press. Despite the ongoing strikes, the government passed the unpopular bill last week to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64, and was allowed to bypass a vote by using a constitutional clause called 49.3. “You chose to push through a pension reform that is unfair, inefficient and one that impacts more severely the most vulnerable people and women,” said the letter, which added that the “reform has been rejected by the immense majority of the population.”

Ben Croll Mixing two parts maternal melodrama, one part fugitive thriller, and finishing with a precocious, child-actor twist, Nippon TV’s “Mother” format has proven an irresistible international cocktail, driving remake rights and series exports across the globe. Taking a victory lap of sorts at this week’s Series Mania Forum, Nippon TV’s director of international business development Yuki Akehi joined Spanish producer Eduardo Galdo to unpack this format-sales phenomenon. Created by Yuji Sakamoto and initially commissioned for broadcast in 2010, “Mother” follows a thirtysomething schoolteacher who feels her first ever pangs of maternal instinct when confronted with an 8-year-old pupil from an abusive home. Instinctively absconding with the girl and heading out on the lam, the new fugitive and her willing charge forge deep bonds beyond a legal framework.

More than 300 leading figures from the French film and TV world have got behind a petition decrying controversial pension reforms spearheaded by the government of President Emmanuel Macron.

Eiza González loved getting to know her castmates in ‘Extrapolation,’ which is now streaming on Apple TV+. Per IMDb, the Mexican actress stars in 5 episodes, including episode 7, titled “The Going Away Party.” In a recent interview, she shared what she loved most about shooting the episode with Tobey Maguire, Forest Whitaker, and Marion Cottilard. The star-studded limited series revolves around climate change and shares “unanticipated stories” of how it “will affect love, faith, work, and family on a personal and human scale.”Gonazalez’s episode is set in San Francisco in 2068.

Rodolphe Belmer has made the case for TF1 Group as “the free entertainment reference for French citizens on TV and in streaming.”