France

The comic actor said he’d never join a club that would admit him. Will Liz Truss apply the same rule to Macron’s new European forum?

The city of light has – finally – stopped taking its historic trees for granted and is devising ways of preserving them

At the height of his fame, the star of Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day called time on his movie career. Why? So he could study philosophy at the Sorbonne

This new French Netflix sitcom sets out to make profound and amusing statements about younger generations’ relationship with technology. It fails on both accounts

Ten years after four people were gunned down on a forest track in the French Alps, the murders remain a mystery. But six detectives are still working on the case

He baffled and fascinated his critics, but the actor somehow became the absolute personification of insouciant cool

Not for the first time, France's national football squad is going into a major tournament facing internal strife

After so many false starts, will this be the season Paris Saint-Germain finally attain their Holy Grail of the Champions League?

Ten days before Hitler’s suicide, Felix Hartlaub disappeared. But his notebooks live on

Are markets ever a place's real cultural centre, asks our columnist

The Frenchman was no newshound but had a knack of witnessing some of the 20th century’s key episodes

In a new documentary, French superstar DJ Laurent Garnier recalls his part in the birth of dance music and traces his career all the way from Manchester’s Haçienda to Tbilisi’s Bassiani

French director Olivier Assayas has spun his cult 1990s film Irma Vep into a sexy, funny, dizzyingly multilayered TV series.

Emmanuel Macron’s failure at parliamentary polls in June will limit his role on the international stage. Is there anyone out there who could replace him as Europe’s leading political visionary?

It’s impossible to understand France and Macron without understanding the General

The race that transcends time and tides

Six years after the referendum, predictions of a mass exodus from the EU have proved – like so many other things they claimed – wide of the mark

Mortality was never far away – on the screen and, tragically, in real life – for the immortal Jean-Louis, French cinema’s man for all seasons

Sunday’s parliamentary elections reshaped France’s political landscape, with big wins for the far left and right

Sophie Marceau captivated one schoolboy so much he became a Francophile film critic. But what would it be like when they spoke, 40 years later?

A self-confessed “unleashed exhibitionist, chasing headlines”, Collin Dufresne lived the life but on her terms

Quartiers nord is Marseille rapper Alonzo's most affectionate tribute to his hometown yet

The best way to protect, and honour, culturally important objects is to put them on public ownership in museums

The world watched Paris’s greatest treasure burn. Two years on, restoration is beginning in earnest

A new boxed set provides a rare insight into the life and mind of one of the most popular cultural icons of the 20th century during what were to be his final days

Jason Solomons has been to Cannes 25 times as a reporter, critic and presenter. How would he fare at his first as a producer?

Pierre Levegh’s name is forever linked with a dreadful day almost seven decades ago. As the 70th anniversary approaches, maybe his feat deserves to step out from the shadow of the catastrophe

Former French ambassador to London Sylvie Bermann on Brexit’s aftershocks and the battles still to come with Macron and the EU

A miscast Anthony Hopkins sets the tone as Cannes’ opening films disappoint

The French daredevil whose luck ran out in front of two young future Beatles

The former French president takes aim at flippant Boris Johnson, Putin, Orbán and more

The French star's new film sees her scrubbing floors and emptying bins. But it's actors who have it hard, she says