Americans put a lot of stock in being likable. Pollsters take surveys of the president's likability. Test screenings check whether we like the characters in movies. And when a literary novelist like ...

Martin Provost’s French period drama Violette relates the story of author Violette Leduc and her relationship with Simone de Beauvoir. It stars Emmanuelle Devos and Sandrine Kiberlain and has just ...

Writers rarely make for riveting movie protagonists, but this engrossing biopic of tortured French author Violette Leduc is different The writer’s life does not easily lend itself to the silver screen ...

"Violette," the next film by"Amelie" director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, will be introduced by Studiocanal to buyers at the Cannes film market. “Amelie” director Jean-Pierre Jeunet has assembled a ...

ANCHOR INTRO: If the new Transformers movie is too big, loud, and empty-headed, KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando has a smart, literate, French film opening this weekend at Landmark as an alternate ...

I am attracted to the latest film from a director whose entire oeuvre I am familiar with, as well as the first film from an unknown talent. I can be equally thrilled by a big-budget Hollywood movie ...

EXCLUSIVE: Venice winner Sacro GRA sells to eight more territories. Doc & Film International has closed multiple deals on Martin Provost’s recent Toronto world premiere Violette including a US sale to ...

Martin Provost has a thing for biopics of French artists, especially those from humble origins whose personal struggle is inextricably linked to their creative character. He is known to local ...