Léa Seydoux: ‘Being objectified is a really horrible feeling’
The actor on creativity, sex scenes and missing Cannes Film Festival due to Covid
Strauss-Kahn scandal: ‘Never again, he promised. I am naive. I believed him’
A decade after the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal, his former wife Anne Sinclair has published her memoir
Smell of success: 100 years of Chanel No5
Part of the legend of the world’s most famous fragrance is that it is adaptable, and is as beloved by fragrance lovers now as it was 100 years ago
Irish antiques dealer to the stars to sell New York shop contents
Catherine Deneuve was ‘incredibly beautiful and pleasant’, says Corkonian Niall Smith
Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis on ‘greatest 21st-century actors’ list
But hang on: what’s Keanu Reeves doing here? And really hang on: where’s Meryl Streep?
Forget Emily in Paris: The real Parisian women shaping the city
The ‘branded Parisian’ needs to be reconstructed as ‘it’s been a long time since she’s looked like Brigitte Bardot’
The Truth review: Tender moments that stay long in the brain
Catherine Deneuve plays a great actor – not a stretch – in a Hirokazu Kore-eda gem
Marjane Satrapi: ‘I did not want a monkey Madame Curie’
The Persepolis writer and director on growing up rebellious in Iran, and her new film Radioactive about Marie Curie
Dublin the last international film festival to dodge the global shutdown
The singularly imaginative film, one of many discoveries, was a worthy winner
Dublin International Film Festival: A guide to the best movies
Women filmmakers are the thematic plank of this year’s DIFF programme
‘The movie industry’s acceptance of Roman Polanski must end’
Europe has always tolerated the sex offender, up for four major awards this weekend
Polanski subject of new rape allegation as latest film released
French cinema body suspends director in culture that turns blind eye to abuse in arts
Driving the Peugeot 504 – a perfect car for troubled times
Fifty years on this durable, unfussy model still feels right: an ultimate motoring detox
Marrakesh: An unfaltering sense of place and people
Moroccan city’s deeply layered culture is rooted in craft, tradition and humanity
Charles Aznavour: from derided ‘Aznovoice’ to French treasure
Paris Letter: Aznavour was determined, wise and persevering, in work as in love
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Lost & Found: Most appealing film yet from Ireland’s maverick moviemaker
Review: Liam O Mochain is at the centre of his omnibus film’s daisy chain of stories
The Irish film-maker who got Clooney, Deneuve and Beatty on screen
Maverick director Liam O Mochain has spent six years, and his own money, on his new film
Béatrice Dalle: ‘I’ve never thought I’m beautiful, but I have a power of attraction’
The ‘Betty Blue’ actor on her love affair with Rupert Everett and why Jesus is sexy
Eva Illouz: Sex, power and the behaviour of men
‘Die Zeit’ newspaper listed her as one of 12 people ‘most likely to shape the thought of tomorrow’
‘For many women in Ireland, young and old, retaliation was not an option’
Hilary Fannin: I found Germaine Greer's contribution to the #MeToo debate unpalatable - I don’t remember many women slapping men down
Call for French minister to resign over former prostitute’s claim
Sophie Spatz alleges Gérald Darmanin coerced her into sex with promise of letter
Germaine Greer: Women who ‘spread their legs’ for parts in movies are ‘whinging’
#MeToo seems in danger of dissolving into futile, inter-generational warfare between people who are supposed to be on the same side. What a shame
Catherine Deneuve apologises to sex attack victims after #MeToo controversy
French actor clarifies position on controversial letter and condemns other signatories for distorting the spirit of message
Catherine Deneuve and the French #MeToo battle
Women who denounce the ‘puritanical witch-hunt’ are out of touch, say younger critics
‘Rape is a crime. But a persistent or clumsy come-on is not a crime’
One hundred French writers, performers and academics including Catherine Denueve have written an open letter defending ‘the freedom to seduce’
Film star with ‘the temperament of a cannonball’
Paris Letter: France mourns Jeanne Moreau, an actor of fierce intelligence
Jeanne Moreau: very French, half-English and a little Irish
The throaty actor – a walking embodiment of French sophistication – has died aged 89
The Midwife: an uneven odd-couple drama
Acting powerhouses Catherine Frot and Catherine Deneuve are wasted in Martin Provost’s fitful drama
‘Edna O’Brien thanked me with a gift of a banned book’
Life’s Work: George Stacpoole, antiques dealer in Adare, Co Limerick, and president of IADA
Cannes 2016: the Palme d’Or really does influence world cinema – and here’s the proof
Every now and then, the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize anticipates a movement
François Ozon: the new new wave
Satirical wit, freewheeling sexuality and a new wave cinematic sensibility? François Ozon, director of ‘Sitcom’, ‘Swimming Pool’ and, now, ‘The New Girlfriend’, is a most French film-maker, and despite Hollywood overtures he refuses to change his style
Catherine Deneuve adds glamour to low-key Cannes Film Festival
Opening film obscure, but the 68th festival has much to offer, writes Donald Clarke in Cannes
Audrey Tautou: Vive la différence
Since stumbling into the role of Amélie, Audrey Tautou has forged a singular career, one of the few resolutely Gallic film stars to become a global star. Her secret to success: ‘I always tried to follow my instincts
Jacques Demy rides a new wave of interest all the way to Cork
The director is enjoying a comeback as an icon of French New Wave cinema, having fallen out of fashion by the time of his death in 1990
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