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It’s one of the most shocking scenes in cinema history: A woman named Alex (Monica Bellucci) walks through an underpass. While walking, she witnesses a man attacking another woman. The other woman ...

The Society made its oral submission today to the nine-member Film and Literature Board of Review to have the R18 French film “Irreversible” banned or significantly cut. Board members had viewed the ...

Aki Kaurismaki’s deadpan meditation on human hope and misfortune “The Man Without a Past” (Finland) takes home the top honors in indieWIRE’s second-annual foreign-language film survey. In a year ...

As if the French haven’t taken enough of a hit lately, here comes Gaspar Noe. In recent weeks, the Nietzsche-spouting, overage enfant terrible of new French cinema has been making the publicity rounds ...