‘Paris, 13th District’ Film Review: Episodic French Drama Has Hip Vibe But Falls Short

Few films have accurately captured the definitive Millennial experience—lovelorn, cash-strapped, self-absorbed, and tech-addicted—though a few have tried, and some even succeeded. Modern love is no joke, as films and shows like “Frances Ha” and “Girls” know, and neither is modern friendship, or any part of early adulthood these days.

The eclectic veteran French director Jacques Audiard shifts gears yet again (his last feature was 2018’s unusual western, The Sisters Brothers) with Paris, 13th District (Les Olympiades), an adaptation of stories by the American comic book writer and artist Adrian Tomine.

It’s official – Lea Seydoux will not be making an appearance at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival this year.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticAmerican cartoonist Adrian Tomine uses the graphic novel to do what that other form of literature — the standard, gray-words-on-white-paper short story — simply hasn’t been able to achieve. Like any writer, he can go inside his characters’ heads, taking the X-ray of their most private insecurities and rendering it visible to the reader.

Kim Kardashian West admits that like a lot of people, she too had anxiety about reentering the world after quarantining at her home for so long. In a bonus clip for, the mother of four shares with Khloe Kardashian that isolating at her home amid the coronavirus pandemic impacted how she was recovering and coping after being robbed at gunpoint while in her Paris, France, hotel room in 2016. «I feel like I had agoraphobia definitely after my robbery in Paris,» Kim tells her sister.

Aside from having a fabulous wardrobe, sub par French skills and quite the interesting love triangle, Emily Cooper [Lily Collins] has some of the best beauty looks on Emily in Paris. Seriously, can we talk about her perfect berry lip?! 

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentLea Seydoux, one of France’s biggest stars who was expected to be the toast of Cannes with four films in competition, issued a statement on July 14 saying that she won’t be able to attend the festival as she is currently self-isolating after testing positive to Covid. “Sadly, I have to self-quarantine in Paris and won’t be able to attend the Cannes Film Festival this year.

Having been a mainstay of the Croisette for years and a Palme d’Or winner in 2015 for “Dheepan,” French filmmaker Jacques Audiard (“The Beat That My Heart Skipped,” “A Prophet,” both Cannes prize winners), is no stranger to the Cannes Film Festival. Since 2005, all of his films have debuted at Cannes save one (2018’s “The Sisters Brothers” that went to Venice).

very Wes Andersonny? Heck, no.You wouldn’t expect anything less from “The French Dispatch,” which opened in the Main Competition section of the Cannes Film Festival on Monday.

Bella Hadid is certainly making a lasting impression.

France's most famous actors, may miss the Cannes Film Festival after testing positive for COVID-19.Seydoux has been fully vaccinated but she tested positive while working on a film, her publicist Christine Tripicchio confirmed Saturday. She is asymptomatic and isolating at home in Paris, hoping that negative tests on consecutive days could allow her to still attend the festival in the south of France.Seydoux was set to be one of the most ubiquitous stars at Cannes this year.

One afternoon in the early aughts, Melissa George found herself in a hotel room with Harvey Weinstein. The mogul, wearing a bathrobe, wanted to discuss two roles in his upcoming films Derailed and Amityville Horror. An assistant waited in the hallway, but then, fortunately, so did George’s ‘entourage’.

Lil Baby has been taken into custody after being charged with transporting drugs in Paris.The rapper and another man were arrested in the French capital yesterday (July 8) and later charged, the Paris prosecutor’s office told CBS News.Lil Baby, whose real name is Dominique Jones, has been attending Paris Fashion Week events with NBA star James Harden, the latter of whom prosecutors said was “not arrested nor placed in custody”.French newspaper Le Parisien reported that police said they checked a

Margaret Qualley was one of the models during the Chanel fashion show this week and she walked the runway in a wedding dress!

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made,” a family comedy that premiered on Disney+ last year that you almost certainly didn’t see. And for his follow-up to that film, the man with the least predictable career in Hollywood came up with “Stillwater,” a genre-agnostic semi-thriller that was greeted with cheers and applause at its well-received Cannes Film Festival premiere on Thursday.Neatly mirroring its director’s style and signature, “Stillwater” is nigh impossible to pin down, taking the broad