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 ...

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 40 years ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The clocks aren’t working here,” someone remarks late in André Téchiné’s Strayed, and indeed, for most of its duration, this terse, discreetly haunting World War II drama conjures the illusion of ...

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 ...