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23/05/2012 - Report: Cannes Film Festival 2012

Salles gets up close to the beats in daring On the road adaptation

Brazilian director Walter Salles’ road movie of the Jack Kerouac modern classic novel On the road is in competition for the Golden Palm award at the Cannes Film ...

23/05/2012 - Report: Cannes Film Festival 2012

Kylie, Eva Mendes and Mr Merde in Carax's Holy motors at Cannes

Léos Carax makes a bold, surprising comeback feature with Holy motors, the fourth film considered a French entry in this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It’s his first feature since 1991.

23/05/2012 - France

Google in court over automatic search identifying Jewish celebrities

Google has been ordered to go to mediation over complaints in France that its search engine automatically associates the word “Jew” with the names of certain well-known people.

22/05/2012 - Report: Cannes Film Festival 2012

Brad Pitt in Killing them Softly

Another gangster film set in the US directed by film antipodean Andrew Dominik and starring Brad Pitt was screened in competition at the Cannes Film festival on Tuesday.

21/05/2012 - Report: Cannes Film Festival 2012

You ain’t seen nothing yet in Cannes!

French director Alain Resnais at 90 years old shows at the Cannes Film Festival he’s still very much in the game.

21/05/2012 - France

Europe's biggest buddhist temple to open outside Paris

With a month to go until its official opening on 22 June, workers are adding the finishing touches to the biggest Buddhist Temple in Europe, situated in a special eco-friendly zone, just outside ...

20/05/2012 - France

Slideshow - A weekend on the red carpet in Cannes

Hundreds of film stars, movie makers and critics are in Cannes for the 65th film festival. Here are some shots taken this weekend from the red carpet.

20/05/2012 - Report: Cannes Film Festival 2012

From Cannes, with Love

Amour, or love in French, is the title of a film in the running for the Golden Palm at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. RFI’s Rosslyn Hyams is in Cannes where she reviewed the film.

19/05/2012 - Report: Cannes Film Festival 2012

Lawless in Cannes

American filmmakers are fairing particularly well at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Lawless, a film by John Hillcoat, is one of five films in competition for the Golden Palm this year.

18/05/2012 - France

British author Zeldin given Légion d'honneur, welcomes Hollande election

British author Theodore Zeldin has been awarded France’s Légion d’Honneur as a tribute to his many works on French history and habits.

18/05/2012 - Report: Cannes Film Festival 2012

Reality, Italian director Matteo Garrone's new Cannes film on Big Brother fan

Italian director Matteo Garrone follows his recent film about the Mafia in southern Italy with a more overtly philosophical look at society in Naples.

18/05/2012 - Report: Cannes Film Festival 2012

Sex tourism and feminism in Ulrich Seidl's Cannes contender Paradise: Love

In competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Austrian director and screenwriter Ulrich Siedl, visits a side of human nature from a rarely-revealed female perspective in Paradise: Love ...

17/05/2012 - Report: Cannes Film Festival 2012

Whale training and the fight to get a life in Audiard's Rust and Bone

The race for the Cannes Film Festival Golden Palm award is on. The first competitors hit the screen Thursday. De Rouille et d’Os is the work of French director Jacques Audiard.

17/05/2012 - Report: Cannes Film Festival 2012

Cannes opener Moonrise Kingdom - young love and Noah's flood

 The Cannes Film Festival opened last night with the eagerly awaited cortege of stars climbing the red-carpeted stairs to the sound of frantic camera clicking.

16/05/2012 - France - report + slideshow

Louis XIV railway carriages take to Paris-Versailles line

Possibly the most glamorous local railway carriages in the world started operating on Wednesday between Paris and Versailles.

16/05/2012 - Report: Cannes Film Festival 2012

Global stars, the Arab Spring and remembering Marilyn Monroe at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival

The 65th Cannes Film Festival opens this evening in the south of France and goes on until the 27 May. International politics will hit the screens this year with at least two films on the Arab Spring.

10/05/2012 - France - Interview: Daniel Buren

Buren fills Paris's Grand Palais with colour

France’s newly elected President François Hollande attended the opening of the latest Monumenta project at Paris’s Grand Palais on Wednesday.

05/05/2012 - France

Police find priceless paintings in Corsican carpark

Three renaissance Italian paintings and another by French old master Nicolas Poussin were found in a car park in Corsica Friday after a tip-off to magistrates investigating their theft last year ...

27/04/2012 - Report: Nigeria

Nigerian school attacks - Boko Haram to blame?

So far this year 14 schools have been burnt down in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's Borno state, forcing over 7,000 children out of formal education and pushing down enrolment rates in an ...

13/04/2012 - France - US

French designer Philip Starck in secret Apple project

Philippe Starck is working on a project with US computer makers Apple, he told French radio Friday.

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