The genre of the realist-inflected arthouse musical has intermittently thrived in France , ever since it was kick-started by Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Papapluies de Cherbourg). It ...

REVIEW: French director Christophe Honore, left, arrives with actress Chiara Mastroianni for Friday's premiere of "Les Chansons d'Amour," screening out of competition at this year's festival. (Reuters ...

Christophe Honore's "Les Chansons D'Amour" ("Love Songs") has all the verve, spirit and brash tempo shifts that characterize French cinema of the past half-century. Yet what dominates this fusion of ...

Arthur William Todd, 93, half of the singing duo Art and Dotty Todd, whose version of the Wayne Shanklin song “Chanson d’Amour (Song of Love)” was a hit in 1958, died of congestive heart failure Oct.

Corpse Flower — aka Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr Bungle) and composer/orchestrator and Gainsbourg collaborator Jean-Claude Vannier — have shared a second taste of their debut album in the form of ...

EARLY in this year's Cannes festival, writer-director Christophe Honoré was philosophical about the prospects for his modern-day musical in the competition for the Palme d'Or. He compared the festival ...

After his girlfriend (Ludivine Sagnier) dies suddenly, the insouciant, shaggy-haired Ismaël (Louis Garrel) finds his personal life spiralling out of control. The girlfriend’s sister (Chiara ...