French stars Omar Sy, Eva Green join 2024 Cannes Film Festival jury

Football: Kante makes long-awaited return as France announces squad for Euro 2024...

17/05/2024

French screen stars Omar Sy and Eva Green will be part of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival next month, organisers announced on Monday. World champion N'Golo Kante will make a surprise return to international football as France coach Didier Deschamps announced Thursday the 25 players that will make up the French squad at Euro 2024. [Voir]

France rushes emergency police reinforcements to New Caledonia...

17/05/2024

France on Thursday announced it would send additional security forces to New Caledonia after imposing a state of emergency following three nights of clashes in its Pacific territory that have left five dead and hundreds wounded. [Voir]

Colonial past haunts latest New Caledonia crisis...

17/05/2024

Protests against a French government plan to impose new voting rules on New Caledonia have spiralled into the deadliest violence on the French Pacific territory since the 1980s. The unrest has exposed divisions between indigenous inhabitants, descendants of colonisers and newcomers to the overseas archipelago. [Voir]

Cannes hosts red carpet rally, Coppola's comeback and a meeting with Pol Pot...

17/05/2024

Hollywood legend Francis Ford Coppola brought his decades-in-the-making “Megalopolis' to the Cannes Film Festival and Cambodia's Rithy Panh delivered another sobering chronicle of the Khmer Rouge genocide on a day that saw dozens of women join France's #MeToo icon Judith Godrèche on the red carpet to denounce sexual violence and impun [Voir]

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Cannes spotlights Judith Godrèche, icon of France's #MeToo moment...

17/05/2024

The Cannes Film Festival kept up its female focus on Wednesday with the pounding, action-packed “Mad Max' prequel “Furiosa' and the soft-spoken uprising of French actress Judith Godrèche, who has spearheaded the host country's long-awaited #MeToo reckoning. [Voir]

Cannes chronicles: A #MeToo red carpet photo to signify an end to women being silenced...

17/05/2024

Before Judith Godrèche kickstarted a #MeToo wave in the French film industry, she was one of the first prominent actors to go on the record against Harvey Weinstein. Godrèche and the film's collaborators walked the Cannes Film Festival's red carpet Thursday to take a photo with collaborators on her film "Moi Aussi - Me too", which is d [Voir]

Cannes Film Festival: Anya Taylor-Jones reveals the secrets behind her stunts in ‘Furiosa'...

17/05/2024

The 77th Cannes Film Festival welcomed the world premiere of "Furiosa", the latest instalment of George Miller's post-apocalyptic "Mad Max" franchise, with Anya Taylor-Joy in the no-holds-barred title role, playing alongside "Thor" star Chris Hemsworth. Taylor-Joy revealed on Thursday the secrets behind the filming of her stunts and expl [Voir]

Cannes hosts red carpet rally, Coppola's comeback and a meeting with Pol Pot...

17/05/2024

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