Adele Haenel
Monday, May. 15, 2023
After one of France's top actors, Adèle Haenel, announced she was quitting a French film industry that she denounced for "complacency toward sexual aggressors," Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Fremaux rejected her criticisms while addressing members of the media Monday.
Haenel, star of...
Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019
What's inside the frame and what's outside of it are electrifyingly synonymous in French filmmaker Céline Sciamma's "Portrait of a Lady on Fire."
It's a sumptuous period romance set in 18th-century France about women making art free, for a moment, of traditional male frameworks. And the...