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 ...

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 ...

A French musical comedy about a ménage a trois? C'est vrai. Director Christophe Honoré's Love Songs (Les Chansons d'Amour) arrives at Zeitgeist this week as part of the center's 'Future Cult Classics" ...