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Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “Napoleon” costume designers divvied up their tasks, with Janty Yates concentrating on French civilian wear and David Crossman on evolving military outfits. The Ridley Scott epic follows Napoleon Bonaparte’s (Joaquin Phoenix) rise from general to emperor. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with Josephine (Vanessa Kirby).

The French artist Apolonia Sokol – focus of the Oscar-shortlisted documentary Apolonia, Apolonia – has been compared to the great Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. She concedes there may be a few parallels, beginning with something of a physical resemblance.

British tourists have named one European holiday destination as the least welcoming, but Scots say they don't have the same issue.

Louise Thompson has jetted off to France with her fiancé Ryan Libbey and their adorable son Leo, with the mum-of-one documenting the family getaway on her Instagram account. Ex-Made In Chelsea star Louise, 33, and Ryan, also 33, have taken their two year old son on a skiing holiday for the first time, with the family-of-three heading to Abondance in southern France. With both Louise and Ryan being keen skiers, the pair have been determined to teach Leo to enjoy the sport.

EXCLUSIVE: German director Wim Wenders has scored his best box office performance in 15 years with Japan-set, comeback feature Perfect Days, according to collated figures released by sales agent The Match Factory.

every time the phrase is uttered in your presence.And while Margot Robbie appeared to have put her Pink PP phase at the close of last year (recall her at the LA premiere of Saltburn), she as Superstar Barbie in Giorgio Armani Privé at the .Praise Ken, then, that at the AFI Awards Luncheon on 12 January, she came back towards the light (I can only assume that Jo Koy’s monologue ruined anything and everything even vaguely Mattel-related for her forever). —whose relationship with Chanel is definitely not without its detractors—reaffirmed her fashion plate status with stylist Andrew Mukamal, truffling out a look originally at Karl Lagerfeld’s SS95 show for the French house.With the exception of some Manolo Mary-Janes and a smattering of Jessica McCormack jewelry, the erstwhile Clapham resident recreated the original outfit to a tee, complete with a Gripoix brooch and crystal logo belt.Margot Robbie attends the 30th anniversary of Turner Classic Movies in Los Angeles, California on January 12, 2024.Lagerfeld had already been at the helm of Chanel for more than a decade when against a Côte d’Azur-inspired backdrop during Paris Fashion Week, with every supermodel worth her bone structure slipping into designs that intentionally pushed the notion of “good taste” to its very limits.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent With great power comes great responsibility. Canal+ Group has received the conditional approval from the anti-trust board to acquire Orange Studio and OCS, the film and pay TV operations of Orange, France’s leading telco group. Canal+ has committed to a number of remedies for an initial duration of five years in order to get the regulatory green light and address concentration concerns.

In a lull for specialty openings early in the new year, three foreign-language films are taking a shot. The Settlers, winner of the Cannes Un Certain Regard FIPRESCI Prize, and Inshallah A Boy are Cannes alumns and Oscar submissions from, respectively, Chile and Jordan (neither short-listed in a competitive field). Driving Madeleine is a crowd pleasing French film.

Oscar nominee Clive Owen channels Humphrey Bogart in his new miniseries “Monsieur Spade.” “I’ve got an original ‘Maltese Falcon’ poster, so that’s how much of a fan I am,” Owen, 59, told The Post. “I’m a big fan of noir, and a huge Bogart fan. So, when [creator Scott Frank] approached me about doing a spin on Sam Spade, it was a quick, easy, ‘Yes.’” Premiering Jan.

Believe it or not, the rivalry between the princes of Denmark is wilder than Prince Harry and Prince William’s feud!

Jason Momoa and his kids were among the celebs at the Common Ground special screening!

You might hear the title, Driving Madeleine (French title: Une Belle Course), and then read the logline about a driver taxiing a 92-year old woman around Paris and instantly think “Aha! It is a French Driving Miss Daisy!” Well, having absolutely nothing to do with that 1989 Best Picture Oscar winner that so memorably starred Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman, the two films do have something in common. They are both irresistibly cast with exceptional veteran stars who each grab the heart and never let go.

Christopher Vourlias Art imitates life in the Sundance-bound “Kidnapping Inc.,” a dark comedy about a botched kidnapping plot that became eerily prescient when three crew members were abducted during the production of the film. Haitian director Bruno Mourral’s feature debut follows a pair of hapless kidnappers tasked with what appears to be a simple abduction for hire, only to find that it’s anything but when they’re suddenly drawn into a vast political conspiracy. In a harrowing twist, the production team’s convoy was waylaid by gunmen one night as cast and crew were returning from a location shoot.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic During the Cold War, we had “I Married a Communist” and “I Married a Monster From Outer Space” — two predicaments that the era’s paranoias rendered basically the same thing. In recent years, however, a more common screen fantasy might be summarized as “Whoops, My Significant Other Turns Out to Be an International Spy/Assassin.” There have been numerous efforts in that vein, of variably intentional absurdity.

An Auschwitz survivor, who played in the promotion-winning Stirling Albion team in the late 1940s, celebrated his 101st birthday with friends and family at the weekend.

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Playtime will launch sales on Emmanuel Courcol’s new social comedy The Marching Band, about two brothers separated by fate and reunited by music, at the upcoming Unifrance Rendez-vous in Paris next week.

EXCLUSIVE: The rise of the Paralympic Games has been one of sport’s biggest recent triumphs, and a trailblazing content initiative charting its story is now set to take the narrative even deeper.

EXCLUSIVE: Grasshopper Film and streaming platform DOCUMENTARY+ have acquired North American rights to the Oscar-shortlisted feature Apolonia, Apolonia, a deal announced as the nomination voting window opens for the 96th Academy Awards.

Producer Rob Reiner and director Dan Partland screened God & Country, a new documentary chronicling the rise of Christian nationalism, on Capitol Hill on Thursday evening.

A collective of feminist groups held street protests across France on Thursday evening to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s support of Gérard Depardieu in the light of multiple allegations of sexual assault against the actor.