Premiering at Cannes, the latest feature from the 'The Triplets of Belleville' and 'The Illusionist' director is a whimsical ...

Early on in beloved animation director Sylvain Chomet ’s “A Magnificent Life” (French title “Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol”), ...

The French animation powerhouse returns to Cannes with 'A Magnificent Life,' his love letter to Marcel Pagnol, who ...

No one who’s fallen for the timeless and charmingly antic worlds of Sylvain Chomet will be disappointed by this poignant ...

Cannes seemed more interested than usual in examining its own history in this year’s program, whether it’s the building of a ...

For all its playfulness, there’s an intellectual heft to A Useful Ghost that exerts its own gravity. It’s no surprise that in ...

The playwright, author and film-maker Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) clearly did have A Magnificent Life – but you imagine it must ...

American director Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague and Sylvain Chomet’s Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol – both of which premiered ...

The dissident Iranian director, no longer under a travel ban from Tehran, returned to Cannes for the first time in two ...

which Sony Pictures Classics will release stateside — Chomet brings one of cinema’s great voices back to life. Pagnol revolutionized film dialogue, bringing literary sophistication and realism ...

Director Mario Martone ('Nostalgia') returns to competition in Cannes with a movie about Italian author Goliarda Sapienza, ...

For French animation auteur Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville, The Illusionist), storytelling has always lived in the space between silence and song. “Most of my work so far has been ...