Seven years ago, in Bertrand Blier’s “Too Beautiful for You,” Gerard Depardieu played a man who abandoned his stunningly beautiful wife for the arms of his aggressively dowdy secretary. The film, ...

Josiane Balasko's Demi-Soeur suggests that modern pharmaceuticals can abet the storytelling in an old-fashioned sentimental farce: A dose of Ecstasy is all that's required to activate the relationship ...

France's Josiane Balasko has won two Césars and been nominated for five others over nearly 40 years as an actress, writer and director. So rolling in to work on "The Hedgehog" as just an actress with ...

Dir: Josiane Balasko. France. 2008.102mins. Nathalie Baye gives a classy, nuanced performance as a successful divorced woman who pays young male escorts for sex in A French Gigolo (Cliente). Writer, ...

French actress-writer-director Josiane Balasko plunges into this tasteless fiasco with all the finesse of a hopped-up Pollyanna. One might think, given the experience and talent of those involved, ...

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Popular French comedy director Eric Lavaine (“Barbecue”) explores social comedy in his most recent film “Retour chez ma Mère” (“Back to Mom’s”) which is to be released by Pathé in early 2016. The film ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. True, it could be argued that the Americanised title gives “fall” a double meaning. But this feels both vague and gratuitous, especially ...

This interview was conducted in French and translated by Linda Marric, it was therefore edited for clarity and length. Please note that this interview contains spoilers for the film. François Ozon has ...

To play the part of Renée Michel, actress Josiane Balasko shaved her eyebrows off and wore a nappy wig. She was restricted to the palette of brown, black and grey, and never really smiled. But as ...

Josiane Balasko (born 15 April 1950) is a French actress, writer and director. She was born Josiane Balašković in Paris. One of Balasko's most recognized roles among English speakers is as a lesbian ...

A mentally challenged senior attempts to bond with her half-brother in this quirky French comedy. By THR Staff Who needs therapy when a dose of Ecstasy is all that’s needed to repair dysfunctional ...