We are now far enough removed from the glittercore of early 2000s pop music that its bubble-gum aesthetic has become as potent a post-Y2K period signifier as low-rise jeans and blond highlights.

Broadway and the West End may be the global capitals of musical theatre, but some of the best musicals have also come from outside the boundaries of New York City and London. France has produced ...

Movie musicals have always been a Hollywood (and Bollywood) favorite, but we shouldn't forget that the French have made a few worthy contributions to the genre themselves. Beginning with Jacques Demy, ...

Despite another mass loss of lives in France in the back of everyone’s minds, French music was enthusiastically celebrated Friday night during the third program of the Cactus Pear Music Festival. The ...

One of the most well-loved musicals in movie history will kick off a Ragtag Cinema run of French films Wednesday night. Billing it as "a film for all the young lovers of the world," Columbia's indie ...

Electronic music, rock, chanson française, hip-hop... From Paris to Marseille, via Saint-Malo or Caen, the French festival scene offers an abundance of options sure to satisfy every musical taste.

Watching “La Haine” nearly 30 years ago, there was a sense of something inexorable about violence in the French suburbs. French director Mathieu Kassovitz’s critically acclaimed black-and-white film ...

French singer Juliette Armanet toplines this year's Cannes Film Festival opener, about a celebrity chef who returns home to help out at her parents’ roadside restaurant. By Jordan Mintzer Movie ...

Set in the early 2000s, a torrid romance between a Britney Spears-like pop star and a lesbian punk rocker makes for a deliciously campy romp. Such derangement is immediately apparent. In its first ...