In 'And God Created Woman' and 'Contempt,' Brigitte Bardot projected a bold new image of feminine identity and erotic power.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the heady French comedy “Bicycling With Molière,” two friends agree — sort of — to mount a production of “The Misanthrope.” They also agree to alternate performing the lead character, Alceste, and ...

When the French filmmaker Jean Luc-Godard died last year at the age of 91, the encomiums came in fast and furious. Directors Clair Denis, Edgar Wright, and Martin Scorcese, as well as President Macron, chimed in, extolling Godard’s iconoclasm and influence.

“Contempt” is based on Alberto Moravia’s 1954 novel about a man whose wife begins to despise him, but it echoes with allusions, quotations and references to its own making. It opens with Godard’s voice reading the credits as Georges Delerue’s ...

The Cannes Film Festival lineup may still be the subject of much speculation, but this year’s official poster — annually anticipated, dissected and collected — has now been revealed. Designed using stills from Jean-Luc Godard‘s Contempt (Le Mépris ...

The official poster for the 69th Cannes Film Festival has been released, and it is inspired by Jean-Luc Godard‘s film “Contempt.” The poster, highlighting the festival dates of May 11 to May 22, shows the steps, the sea and the horizon in front of a ...

If Godard could be reduced to a single genius idea—essential to his filmmaking if obviously not the whole story—it might go something like this: To love cinema is to love life. He is the original movie geek, swaddling his films in adoring reference ...