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French stars call for crackdown on sexual violence
Alaska Superstation· 7 hours agoThe strongly-worded petition was published in French daily Le Monde as the Cannes Film Festival gets underway with a strong focus on the #MeToo movement...
French minister vows better protection of military sexual abuse victims -Le Monde
Reuters· 5 days agoFrench Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu is putting in place a special task force to better protect...
Drug lords are laughing at Macron’s ‘meagre’ war on narcotics
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoWhen Emmanuel Macron travelled to Marseille in March, the French president proclaimed he was...
Paris garbage collectors go on strike, demand Olympic bonus
Reuters· 4 hours agoSome 400 garbage collectors in Paris went on strike on Tuesday, demanding a bonus for the Olympic Games which will take place in the French capital this summer, French daily Le</ ...
Why Cannes 2024 is shaping up to be the most dramatic yet
The Week via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoThroughout its 78-year history, the Cannes Film Festival has been "criss-crossed by the political...
Fear Grips Cannes Film Festival as France Finally Has Its #MeToo Moment
The Daily Beast· 7 hours agoAt the height of its fame in the 1950s and ’60s, the Cannes Film Festival seemed to capture the...
Cannes Film Festival Opens With Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Saint Laurent
WWD via Yahoo News· 48 minutes agoBut those were put to rest earlier in the week when investigative website Mediapart denied it would...
7,000 French artists demand fair pay from streamers like Netflix and Disney, citing a 5-year-old law...
Fortune via AOL· 11 hours ago“All our letters asking them [streaming platforms] to come to the table have gone unanswered,” Adami...
Artists, Curators Pledge Support for Palais de Tokyo After Patron’s Statement on Museum’s ‘Wokeism’
ARTnews· 1 day agoIn an open letter that was first published in Le Monde on Monday and now available via the DCA, a...
Yakuza member arrested for stealing Pokémon cards as Japan’s criminal underworld declines
Semafor via Yahoo News· 5 days agoKnow More Thanks to a government crackdown that banned the yakuza from opening bank accounts and...