Cinema of France

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center's (SNFCC) Park Your Cinema program continues this Friday, August 11, with Francois Truffaut's 1962 masterpiece "Jules et Jim." A landmark in French New Wave cinema, it stars Oskar Werner and Henri Serre as two friends vying for the love of Catherine, played by the spectacular Jeanne Moreau. The 9 p.m.

For the third summer in a row, the beautiful mountain village of Parthenonas in Greece's Halkidiki region will host a film festival featuring Greek, American, Swedish and French cinema classics.

The French Institute is organizing evening screenings of five classic French films in the beautiful Senada garden at the French School of Athens over the next few months in a celebration of summer. The first, on Thursday, June 1, is Marguerite Duras's 1975 drama "India Song," starring  Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carriere, Claude Mann, Vernon Dobtcheff and Didier Flamand.

It was not a great festival. Among the 19 features selected for the competition in Cannes, there were quite a number of "mediocre" films, besides some good films. I had three favorites: "Loveless" by Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev, "Happy End" by Austrian Michael Haneke and "The Square" by Swedish director Ruben Östlund.

Swedish director Ruben Ostlund's The Square has won this year's Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival on May 28.      

In our first review we spoke about two films at Cannes this year ("Sea Sorrow" and "Jupiter's Moon") focusing on one of the main themes of this year's festival: The migration crisis. This is only part of the overall crisis in today's Europe, which includes the degeneration of the political and economic system as well as of human values.

The Cannes Film Festival, the world's premier film event, will open on May 17 with "The Ghosts of Ismael," the latest film by French director Arnaud Desplechin and an opening ceremony hosted by luminaries Monica Bellucci and Pedro Almodovar.

Just a few weeks before the French elections in April, the legendary star Brigitte Bardot stated once again her active support for the right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen.

We all know Natalie Portman. We first saw her as “Matilda” in the amazing movie “Leon”. Now, after she stared in the Star Wars saga and many other magnificent movies, she is a famous and successful actress.

The newly launched Adaptation Film Festival, organized by MovieReel and the City of Athens, features films adapted from literature as well as discussions on the work of specific artists, to the Mikrokosmos movie theater from February 2-8.