The hyperelitist world of prerevolutionary France fostered resentment among writers excluded from salons and high society.

In Emmanuel Courcol’s drama The Marching Band (En Fanfare in French, and also released as My Brother's Band), a struggling community band in a mining town in northern French has fallen on hard times.

Xavier Dolan co-stars in director Stéphane Demoustier's Cannes-premiering tragic true story of the man who designed the ...

In 1980, while living in Belgium, the historian Lynn H. Nicholas read an obituary in The International Herald Tribune of the ...

The 'Babygirl' actor’s first feature behind the camera follows an unhoused Londoner trying to get clean while stuck on a ...

In ‘African Stories’, award-winning Nigerian writer Ben Okri assembles a landmark collection – bringing 36 African short stories, diverse in language and perspective – on par with the global greats.

The French animation powerhouse returns to Cannes with 'A Magnificent Life,' his love letter to Marcel Pagnol, who ...

Illustrator Ugo Bienvenu's debut feature tells a story of unexpected friendship and the fate of a world impacted by climate ...

Martha Graham Dance, a Quincy Jones tribute, 'Night of the Living Dead,' the opera 'Hildegard' and more: What's coming at ...

The Kunsthalle Bremen opened a drawings exhibition the other week entitled Corot to Watteau? On the Trail of French Drawings.

The mutual influence between Impressionist masters Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot is the focus of a major traveling museum ...