Cannes Film Festival 2013
CULTURE
Modelling, music and movies: Emmanuelle Seigner on her eclectic career
Emmanuelle Seigner is a chameleon with an eclectic career. She started modelling at the age of 14 and made her acting debut just a few years later, eventually starring in several…
FRANCE
In pictures: The top French stories of 2013
FRANCE 24 takes a look at the year's big news stories in ten photographs.
CINEMA
Palme d’Or winner Kechiche pens scathing op-ed
Two days ahead of the US release of Palme d’Or-winning lesbian romance "Blue is the Warmest Colour", the film’s director, Abdellatif Kechiche, has written an op-ed accusing star…
CINEMA
Coen brothers awarded France’s top cultural honour
US filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, known for genre-hopping movies of distinctive tone and texture, received France’s top cultural honour on Wednesday. The French have long…
CINEMA
'Reconciliation is not my job,' Palestinian director says
Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad’s thriller “Omar”, a prize-winner at Cannes in May, hits Parisian screens this week. FRANCE 24 spoke to Abu-Assad at the festival. Here is an…
FRANCE
Lloyd's offers €1 million for recovery of Cannes jewels
The Lloyd's of London insurance company has offered up to €1 million for information leading to the recovery of jewels stolen last month when an armed man made off with €103…
ASIA LIVE
Should Christians use the name 'Allah' for God?
Carrie Nooten in Singapore brings us the latest news making the headlines on the island state and in neighbouring Malaysia. First, we look at a dispute between Christians and…
FRANCE
Second jewel theft strikes Cannes Film Festival
A €2 million necklace was stolen on Thursday in the luxurious French Riviera town of Cap d’Antibes, police said. The theft comes after robbers escaped with about $1 million worth…
FRANCE
Luxury watch store latest target of Cannes thefts
Two armed men robbed the Kronometry luxury watch store in Cannes on Wednesday, the latest in a spate of thefts in the French Riviera resort town. The theft takes place three days…
FRANCE
Value of Carlton jewellery heist raised to €102 million
The estimated value of the jewellery stolen from the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes in a weekend heist has been raised to more than €102 million, French prosecutors…
CINEMA
Film world leaps to defence of French ‘cultural exception’
French cinema heavyweights and their European counterparts have mounted an impassioned defence of the “cultural exception” that subsidises filmmakers to protect them from…
FRENCH CINEMA - INTERVIEW
‘Porn shouldn’t have a monopoly on sex’
French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie makes a controversial splash with “Stranger by the Lake” (released in France June 12), a slow burn of a thriller about sex, desire and murder…
FRANCE