“Emilia Pérez” is shaping up to be the most controversial movie of awards season. Written and directed by the French filmmaker Jacques Audiard, the film won the Jury Prize at last year’s ...

Bertrand Blier, the French ... film Les Valseuses (French for “the waltzers” but also a slang term for testicles), a hugely popular comedy that established him as one of France’s most ...

Elle, a French drama about a vicious rape and its unexpected aftermath, has been acclaimed by critics while condemned by film-goers worldwide ... s psyche: the most unconfessable, obscure ...

The son of actor Bernard Blier, he gave Gérard Depardieu his big break in 1974 with the cult film Les Valseuses ... him as one of France’s most controversial comedic voices.