The latest feature from the 80-year-old French director (‘Wild Reeds,’ ‘My Favorite Season’) premiered in Berlin’s Panorama sidebar. By Jordan Mintzer The road to bad movies is often paved with good ...

Melodrama isn’t central to modern French cinema, because melodrama is rooted in irony, whereas one could hardly slip a playing card between most great French directors’ intentions and results. But, in ...

In André Téchiné’s vibrant new film, Being 17, two teens wrestle with desire and hostility in a mountainous corner of France. The subject matter is not new for Téchiné, who has for more than forty ...

The Berlinale has announced the full line-ups of its Panorama, Forum and Generation sidebars for the 74th edition running from February 15 to 24. (scroll down for full list) Panorama will showcase 31 ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - French film director Andre Techine has marked his return to cinema after a three-year hiatus with an emotional journey back to the 1980s and the start of the AIDS epidemic he said ...

A reliable and often hypnotic manufacturer of U.S.-releasable French cinema, André Téchiné seemed on a humanistic cutting edge in the ’90s—the structurally unpredictable Wild Reeds (1994) and Les ...

It will be tricky for audiences beyond France to connect to this true-crime thriller, which amounts to a waxworks re-creation of the Nice casino wars. Deneuve plays Renee Le Roux, grand dame of the ...

PARIS — After Berlin competition title “The Witnesses,” Gallic helmer Andre Techine is next planning a comedy set in the moneyed world of art dealing starring Catherine Deneuve and Michel Blanc. That ...

Section head Michael Stütz said the films in the line-up reflected the current era of global crises, wars and social divisions. “The films in this year’s programme express their attitudes in many ...