Cannes director defends festival after Adèle Haenel slams French film industry's #MeToo response
After one of France’s top actors, Adèle Haenel, announced she was quitting a French film industry that she denounced for “complacency toward sexual aggressors,” Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Fremaux rejected her criticisms Monday.
French actor Michel Piccoli, arthouse star, is dead at 94
Published: May 18, 2020, 9:41 am Updated: May 18, 2020, 10:13 amFILE - In this May 20, 1974 file photo, French actor Michel Piccoli talks with Swedish actress Liv Ullmann at the Cannes Film Festival, southern France. Michel Piccoli, a prolific screen star whose served as muse to filmmaker Luis Bunuel and was a leading man for Jean-Luc Godard, has died. (AP Photo/Jean-Jacques Levy, File)PARIS French actor Michel Piccoli, a prolific screen star who appeared in landmark films by directors such as Luis Bunuel - including in his Academy Award winning The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and Jean-Luc Godard, has died. His family confirmed to French media Monday that he died last week, but they did not give a cause of death. The actors last major role was in 2011's Nanni Morettis We Have a Pope, which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
Catherine Deneuve Hospitalized After Suffering a Stroke
Legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve is in the hospital after suffering a stroke. Deneuve's family confirmed the news in a statement to the Agence France-Presse on Wednesday. Thankfully, the 76-year-old actress' family said she had a "very limited stroke which is reversible." "Happily she has no loss of motor function, although she will of course have to rest for a while," the statement reads. The French film icon has starred in a number of classic films over the years including Roman Polanski's Repulsion in 1965, Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg in 1964 and Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark in 2000.