Cinema

Claire Denis: America’s Long Shadow

The days when Claire Denis worked with Wim Wenders on Paris, Texas in the middle of the American desert are long gone. In the […]

By Pauline Guedj
| October 26, 2023

Cinema

Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke, an Iconic French-American Romance

Before Midnight, the final volume in the trilogy by American director Richard Linklater, was released in theaters ten years ago. Following on from Before […]

By Pauline Guedj

| August 16, 2023

Cinema

Martin Scorsese, in the Wake of the French New Wave

Martin Scorsese is back at the Cannes Film Festival! Exactly 47 years after Taxi Driver won the Palme d’Or, and 37 years after picking […]

By Pauline Guedj

| May 10, 2023

Cinema

Louis Malle: Perspectives on America

Hulu has released a documentary on actress Brooke Shields, who rose to fame in 1978 with Pretty Baby, Louis Malle’s first American film. Until […]

By Pauline Guedj

| April 12, 2023

Cinema

For American Filmmakers, Godard Is Not Dead

Richard Brody must be Jean-Luc Godard’s biggest fan in the United States. The Francophile film critic and New Yorker writer has published a number […]

By Pauline Guedj

| January 5, 2023

Cinema

Wes Anderson: The Texan Director with a Parisian Heart

With The French Dispatch, his new movie landing in U.S. theaters this Friday and in France the following Wednesday, Wes Anderson has offered his […]

By Pauline Guedj

| October 19, 2021

Profile

Perspective Through Exile: James Baldwin in France

A key figure in the fight against discrimination and for civil rights in the United States, African-American novelist James Baldwin was born in Harlem […]

By Pauline Guedj

| June 4, 2020

Books

The French Children’s Books That America Can’t Put Down

Antoine Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince has been captivating American children since 1943. But other French children’s books such as Babar, The Three Robbers, and […]

By Pauline Guedj

| November 13, 2017

Author: Pauline Guedj

Claire Denis: America’s Long Shadow

Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke, an Iconic French-American Romance

Martin Scorsese, in the Wake of the French New Wave

Louis Malle: Perspectives on America

For American Filmmakers, Godard Is Not Dead

Wes Anderson: The Texan Director with a Parisian Heart

Perspective Through Exile: James Baldwin in France

The French Children’s Books That America Can’t Put Down

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