The reputation of Alain Resnais' 1959 "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" as a demanding, stringent, capital-i-Important film precedes it, but the action that unfolds over its 90 minutes is fairly simple. A French ...

Paris, 1959. The staff of Cahiers du Cinema, the now-legendary French film magazine, convened only its second all-hands-on-deck critics' round table. The occasion, headlined as "an event which seems ...

WASHINGTON – Last year, the French silent film “The Artist” (2011) won five Oscars, including Best Picture. Now, another French filmmaker hopes to do the same with “Amour,” winner of the Cannes Film ...

Figures covered in dust and ash, writhing: arms, legs, backs, torsos exposed, transfixed and transposed in time and space. A back-and-forth banter between a man and a woman begins on the audio track ...

Mon amour is a single written and performed by French singer-songwriter Slimane Nebchi, known by the mononym Slimane. On November 8 2023, Slimane was selected to represent France at 2024's Eurovision ...

As he announced with The Artist, writer-director Michel Hazanavicius makes movies about movies. So it was nearly inevitable that he would someday burlesque the work of Jean-Luc Godard, the ...

Alain Resnais' film Hiroshima Mon Amour tackles the unspeakable trauma of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, something Western cinema has largely ignored. Resnais fuses fiction and documentary ...

Cannes: The "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" star directs herself in a dubious romance unwilling to grapple with its bigger questions. Two years after Céline Sciamma’s luminous “Portrait of a Lady on Fire ...

Crepe lovers in Westwood can rejoice, for Mon Amour Cafe is here to satisfy their cravings. Nestled between BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse and the popular Habibi Cafe on Broxton Avenue, Mon Amour is ...

Two adaptations of works by the writer Marguerite Duras are playing as one-woman shows in Paris. By Laura Cappelle PARIS — When the film “Hiroshima Mon Amour” was released 60 years ago, the French ...

“Read it again, Dad?” my daughter would say when I finished reading “Goodnight Moon.” And that’s exactly how I felt after watching Celine Sciamma’s 2019 French masterpiece “Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

Here’s a pithy pullquote for Godard Mon Amour’s posters and trailers: “Boy, it sure is French!” Its language, of course, is French, as one would expect from a biopic about Jean-Luc Godard and Anne ...