He would later return to literary pursuits, penning Jean de Florette and Manon of The Spring (later he would ... films by director Claude Berri in 1986, and the latter pair by Yves Robert in ...

You could say that Marcel Pagnol’s movies are defined by the faces he cast, none more distinctive than that of Raimu, a music-hall legend turned big-screen star whom Orson Welles called “the ...

which the French animator sketches by hand in a loving but labor-intensive process that reflects the previous century every bit as much as Pagnol’s best-loved novels (“Jean de Florette” and “Manon of ...

Pagnol’s personal life is explored as well, including his marriage to actress Jacqueline Bouvier, for whom he wrote Manon of the Spring, and the tragic death of their young daughter. He’s also ...

Exquisite artistry can't compensate for a certain dramatic inertia in 'The Triplets of Belleville' director’s disappointingly lifeless portrait of the Marseille-born playwright-turned-filmmaker ...

The Commission said this on Monday in its spring forecast. The sharp slowdown in global trade, fuelled by global tensions, will leave its mark on Europe, too. The Commission is expecting EU ...

“People often think of countries like India, Italy and the US when we talk about climate change and heatwaves,” says Dr Sarah Kew, researcher at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.

It all started as an idea to make a documentary that also included animated sequences, but apparently the animation worked so well, Chomet decided instead to do the whole thing as a fully animated ...

“It all came pretty quickly in one night,” he explained in a 1986 interview to Chris Heath, describing the words coming out as though singing “an old hymn or a folk tune.” CBS had already sent him to ...