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As Nothomb remembers it, in those early years, she assumed the universe revolved around her, which makes "Little Amélie" (as the playful toon refers to its big-eyed, bobble-headed title character) a ...
From the start, French Exit — much like a Wes Anderson movie — relies on the viewer accepting the internal logic of the bizarro bubble-world it depicts.
Tens of thousands of Muslims, from Pakistan to Lebanon to the Palestinian territories, poured out of prayer services to join anti-France protests on Friday, as the French president's vow to ...
In Arco, French illustrator Ugo Bienvenu couches a considered meditation on ecological disaster within the dulcet grooves of a charming story about adolescent friendship. The debut feature, which ...
French free TV giant TF1 Group has signed a deal with national industry associations pledging to boost funding for animation films and series and to give more exposure to kids’ cartoons on air.
The French Dispatch might be a love letter to magazines, but it doesn't use its own framing device as well as it could, so it isn't a cohesive film.
A beloved French cartoon fish is now the internet's latest viral hit, amassing tens of millions of views online. The orange fish, affectionately known as "Le Poisson Steve," has spawned a series of ...
French & Saunders, review: honesty, agony and hilarity with our greatest double act In Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter, Alan Yentob found the comic duo on disarmingly frank form ...
Journalists are the heroes in “ The French Dispatch,” so expect film critics to be a little bit biased in their embrace of Wes Anderson ’s latest. It flatters the field, after all, just not ...
Iran has shuttered a French research institute in response to vulgar political cartoons in the magazine Charlie Hebdo. The French Institute for Research in Iran, based in Tehran, was shut down Thur… ...
The Japan-inclined daughter of a Belgian diplomat, Amélie Nothomb has published several books about her upbringing in Asia, including one in which she boldly channels her inner toddler. In ...