Review: French's 'The Searcher' offers vivid, poetic prose

Dave McNary Film ReporterSan Francisco Film has selected filmmakers Aaron Sorkin and Chloe Zhao for honors at its annual San Francisco Film Awards ceremonies, due to be livestreamed on Dec. 9.Sorkin, whose “Trial of the Chicago 7” is streaming on Netflix, will receive the Kanbar award for storytelling.

HELLO! magazine, Dawn French reveals how she drew on her experiences with her late mother, Roma, for her new novel, Because of You."I'm trying to write about that very strong mother line, which is just a remarkable, visceral, unconditional relationship," says Dawn, 63, who has a daughter, Billie, with her former husband Sir Lenny Henry and two step children, Lily, 29, and Olly, 26, from her marriage to charity executive Mark Bignell.MORE: Dawn French talks recent weight gain during frank

Dawn French has said that authors should be free to write about characters from different racial backgrounds from their own.

Lise Pedersen While the global pandemic caused cinema theaters in France to close for the first time ever (“Even the war didn’t close down cinemas!” exclaimed Lumière Festival director Thierry Frémaux on opening night), it did mean people had more time to watch movies.

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.

Dawn French has said she is concerned that cancel culture means modern comedians might not be able to do edgy comedy.

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.

A Tragedy of Manners. This is how bestselling author Patrick DeWitt’s satirical novel “French Exit” was billed upon its publishing in 2018.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticFrances Price married well, if one’s notion of success in that department is defined more by financial comfort than by romance.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAfter an underwhelming start to the year, France has redeemed its status as Europe’s largest nation of cinemagoers, with the national box office bolstered by a tide of local movies that have sustained admissions despite the near absence of big Hollywood movies.So far, 2020 has been a banner year for French fare, and local distributors — who were initially reluctant to release movies when theaters reopened in June after a three-month shutdown — have taken

© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine has opened up about her weight gain in recent months. The Vicar of Dibley star, 62, had previously surprised fans with her in 2014.Opening up about her experience in her new podcast French & Saunders: Titting About with her comedy partner , the actress explained: "I've gone back to being an entire barrel but do you know what, I'm going to be 63 this year, I don't give a [explicit]."I never did dislike anything about my body, even when I was very, very fat.

Celebrity couple names are no longer en vogue, but if they were, we still wouldn’t be coming up with one for Doja Cat and French Montana. Fans wondered if French, 35, and Doja, 24, were dating after a video showed them hanging out on a yacht, per HotNewHipHop, but that speculation was quickly put to rest. “Me and French got a song coming out. F-ckin relax,” Doja tweeted on Oct. 1, squashing any talk about these two mixing a little love in their hip-hop.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Arthouse outfit MUBI has struck a deal with sales firm The Match Factory for all UK and Ireland rights to Michel Franco’s Venice Film Festival drama New Order, which won the festival’s Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize.Conceived six years ago, Franco’s (After Lucia) timely class conflict drama sees a high-society wedding interrupted by the arrival of unwelcome guests as protests rage on the streets.