EXCLUSIVE: Amélie Bonnin’s romantic dramedy Leave One Day (Partir un jour) will make history at the Cannes Film Festival in May as the first debut feature to open the event across its 78 editions.

Opening Cannes, like closing it, has traditionally been a poisoned chalice. The festival has tried a few moves to address the latter, mostly predicated on the fact that, by the end of nearly two ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

The pop star Juliette Armanet evokes the pensive young Meryl Streep, but Amélie Bonnin's first solo feature is at once affecting and aimless. But there’s another side to Cannes. Each year, the ...

“Leave One Day,” Amélie Bonnin’s feature film that opened the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday evening, is an unusual film for a Cannes opener in several ways. It’s a musical, only the third to open ...

Cannes: This is the Gallic version of a Sundance movie. Taking a sturdy, mainstream premise — a big-city careerist reflecting on her life path during a trip back to the holler, in a setup that faintly ...

Sylvie Pialat (“Timbuktu”), the producer of Cannes’ opening night movie “Leave One Day” directed by Amelie Bonnin, is on the roll. The Cesar-winning producer, who runs the Paris-based banner Les Films ...

French singer Juliette Armanet toplines this year's Cannes Film Festival opener, about a celebrity chef who returns home to help out at her parents’ roadside restaurant. By Jordan Mintzer Movie ...

Some of the best movies of all time all take place within the same 24 hours. Sometimes it's about the final day of school, like Dazed and Confused, or sometimes it's about one man's mental breakdown, ...