Good Movies to Watch with Strong Female Leads

Sometimes with a world of cinematic options at your fingertips, you find yourself scrolling through movie options for what seems like the length of an entire feature film, watching snippets of trailers, and mulling over your choices only to abandon the array of choices to go do some other boredom-induced activity.

dropped the first photos for season 2 of , it has officially set a premiere date and debuted the first teaser during Saturday's virtual fan event, TUDUM.The Parisian dramedy, returning Lily Collins as the titular heroine, will launch its 10-episode sophomore season on Dec. 22.The second season finds Emily, now more entrenched in her life in Paris, getting better at navigating the city but still struggling with the idiosyncrasies of French life.

The 59th annual New York Film Festival kicked off Friday night with back-to-back world premiere screenings of Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth as the Frances McDormand, Denzel Washington-starrer met with loving applause at Lincoln Center’s full Alice Tully Hall.

Liza Foreman French director Claire Simon is putting the spotlight for her next documentary on the steps of life from birth to death for the bodies of women.Simon, who was at the San Sebastian Film Festival with her latest film “I Want to Talk About Duras,” starts shooting this week at the Paris public hospital, Hopital Tenon, in the city’s 20th Arrondissement.With “This Body of Women” (the literal English translation of the title) she plans to trace all of the female health cycles from birth

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNoemie Merlant, the rising French star of Celine Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” and Jacques Audiard’s “Paris, 13th District” (pictured), is reteaming with Pierre Guyard at Nord-Ouest Films to develop her sophomore feature, “Les Femmes au balcon.”Merlant made her feature debut with “Mi Iubita, Mon Amour” which world premiered in the special screenings section at this year’s Cannes and is playing at San Sebastian Film Festival.Set over the course

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.

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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentVivendi, the parent company of Canal Plus and Universal Music Group (UMG), is planning to acquire an additional 17.93% stake in Lagardere, the French media, publishing and travel retail conglomerate, from its leading shareholder Amber Capital.The move comes as Vivendi is getting ready to list UMG, its biggest money-making asset and the world’s largest music company, at the Amsterdam stock exchange on Sept.

William Earl Norm Macdonald, who has died at the age of 61, was an iconic comedian, known for his deadpan delivery and lack of fear in committing to bits that would make other comedians cringe, such as mocking fellow late night guests, letting jokes bombs for his own amusement or going clean when others were getting dirty.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMelanie Laurent, one of France’s most acclaimed actors-turned-filmmakers, has been having a banner 2021, headlining Alexandre Aja’s hit Netflix movie “Oxygene,” sitting on Spike Lee’s Cannes jury, and world premiering her sixth directorial effort “The Mad Women’s Ball” at Toronto.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have proudly declared The Last Duel to be a feminist film.Based on the titular 2004 book by Eric Jager, the film – directed by Ridley Scott, with Affleck and Damon writing, producing and starring – is based on the true story of the last medieval trial by combat.Set in 14th century France, the story follows a duel between Jean de Carrouges (Damon) and Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver), after the latter rapes the former’s wife, Marguerite de Carrouges (Jodie Comer).Take a

Hot off her starring role in Apple’s hit series Ted Lasso, Juno Temple has joined Ewan McGregor, Sam Heughan and Mark Strong in Everest, the adventure thriller set to be directed by Doug Liman.

Naman Ramachandran Acclaimed French producer Catherine Dussart has a full production slate including new works from veterans Amos Gitai, Rithy Panh and Peter Greenaway.Dussart is currently at the Venice Film Festival where Indian filmmaker Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s “Once Upon a Time in Calcutta,” co-produced by her Catherine Dussart Productions, is playing in the Horizons strand.

Ben Croll Premiering out of Venice’s Horizons Extra sidebar on Tuesday, ”My Night” marks the feature debut of Antoinette Boulat, a leading casting directors behind recent films like “The French Dispatch,” “Bergman Island” and “Non-Fiction,” now making the jump behind the lens.A veteran of the French industry, Boulat co-wrote and directed this intimate character study that follows the adolescent Marion (Lou Lampros) over the course of one peripatetic Paris night as she dwells in the past and

Johnny Depp is taking the 2021 Deauville American Film Festival by storm!

Superbad is certain to bring you all kinds of feels, regardless of what age you are!Superbad stars Jonah Hill (in his breakout role) and Michael Cera as BFFs who are about to graduate from high school and go away to different colleges.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMatt Dillon (“The House That Jack Built”) and Charlotte Gainsbourg (“Antichrist,” “Nymphomaniac”) are attached to star in Fred Garson’s “An Ocean Apart,” a period drama about the romantic affair between French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir and American writer Nelson Algren.The film is being developed by French producer Olivier Delbosc at Curiosa Films, which is presenting Xavier Giannoli’s Venice competition player “Lost Illusions” and Yvan Attal’s “Les