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As Cannes gets serious about #MeToo, has French cinema finally turned a corner?
The decision to bar a French actor from a Cannes premiere over rape allegations has prompted talk of a U-turn from a festival ...
How France’s #MeToo Movement Is Transforming Cannes and the Country’s Film Industry: ‘The Conditions Under Which Work Is Produced Matter’
This year’s Cannes Film Festival kicked off with Gerard Depardieu’s 18-month suspended sentence for sexual assault on two women during the filming of “The Green Shutters.” While that case itself has ...
Juliette Binoche, the French star slaying film’s sacred monsters
The 61-year-old has managed to remain a beloved figure in the cut-throat movie industry while embracing activist causes ...
Power, celebrity and being believed: The week that A-listers took the stand and fame was on trial
In just 24 hours, dispatches from courtrooms where Gerard Depardieu and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs stood trial and Kim Kardashian gave evidence laid bare some uncomfortable truths about modern celebrity, says ...
What Depardieu’s conviction and Cannes’ response means for #MeToo in France
PARIS (AP) — For powerful men in France’s film industry, this was a week of reckoning. Gérard Depardieu — the country’s most ...
Is This the Most Political Cannes Festival Since ’68?
As fest staff tries to follow "political neutrality" guidelines, Robert De Niro’s passionate opening-night excoriation of ...