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Winner of the Cannes 2011 Best Actor Award, Jean Dujardin may be the natural heir to Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Enjoy a vicarious vacation in France this summer without leaving your living room.

The talented and versatile Annie Girardot, who died last February, was once France’s most popular actress.

From the well-known Arsène Lupin and Commissaire Maigret to the less-familiar Rouletabille, a host of French film detectives

Mathieu Amalric, winner of the Best Director award at Cannes last May, is also one of France’s top actors.

Biopics have become a genre all their own, and French cinema is just beginning to explore their rich potential.

Jean-Luc Godard was the most adventurous and daring of all the New Wave filmmakers.

One of France's most popular stage and screen actors, Giraudeau is almost unknown in the US and has long deserved to be discovered.

Our annual roundup of the best French films of the year.

French cinema lost another pioneer of the New Wave with the death of the 80-year-old Claude Chabrol in September.

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