This year’s Cannes Film Festival kicked off with Gerard Depardieu’s 18-month suspended sentence for sexual assault on two ...

French courts may finally be taking years of complaints about sexual violence seriously, advocates and experts say.

PARIS -- For powerful men in France’s film industry, this was a week of reckoning. Gérard Depardieu — the country’s most ...

Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs and Harvey Weinstein are trying “boys will be boys” defenses, trying to capitalize on backlash ...

A legal divide among federal district courts is growing over the proper standard for determining when a recent federal law ...

There's fear of retribution," says Carolin Guentert, a civil law attorney specializing in sexual violence cases. "During the ...

Women's rights advocates say the case is about whether France's justice system is truly ready to reckon with sexual violence.

The Cannes Film Festival has barred French actor Théo Navarro-Mussy from attending the premiere of the competition entry ...

A Paris court found actor Gerard Depardieu guilty of sexual assault, marking a significant moment for the #MeToo movement in ...

Depardieu’s conviction was seen as a victory for the #MeToo movement in France, which took hold more slowly than in the United States. He was given an 18-month suspended sentence on charges of ...

Addressing the findings of the report and the country’s MeToo reckonning, Bruel highlighted the several key measures taken by the National Film Board over the last five years to curb sexual ...

But some say now that the festival is evolving as the #MeToo movement has made belated inroads into the French film industry. This year's Cannes opened hours after French actor Gerard Depardieu ...