Gérard Depardieu’s fall reveals dire state of French politics
This rippling controversy over one of the country’s most successful cultural exports points to something dank in French politics and culture.
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Lie With Me review – French Brokeback Mountain has impeccable manners
Jean-Paul Belmondo’s grandson Victor is uncanny in a supporting role to Guillaume de Tonquédec’s uptight novelist, whose return to his provincial home town stirs up memories of his first loveThere are a couple of scenes in this French drama where you m…
Victor Belmondo: ‘I wanted to be an actor – I never said to myself, yes, but that’s what Papi does too’
At his grandfather’s funeral in 2021, Victor Belmondo described the legendary nouvelle vague star as an ‘eternal sun’. Now beginning to light up the screen himself, he talks about trying to capture his predecessor’s famous insoucianceIt can be both a h…