There’s a wonderful new Criterion Channel series on French poetic realism, a short-lived but intense film movement of the 1930s that is extraordinarily timely right now. A bleak and brooding yet ...

What Jacobs calls the holy trinity—“Bonjour, s'il vous plait, merci”—will help, but for the most part, the French speak only French. Politeness isn’t the norm in Paris, so don’t ...

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Bernard Buffet was a French Expressionist painter. Best known for his representational work, Buffet's paintings are often figurative, graphic, and central in their compositions. A bold rejecter of ...

Bernard Buffet was a French Expressionist painter. Best known for his representational work, Buffet's paintings are often figurative, graphic, and central in their compositions. A bold rejecter of ...