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 ...

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, ...

French actress-writer-director Josiane Balasko plunges into this tasteless fiasco with all the finesse of a hopped-up Pollyanna. Her mother having died recently, Nenette (Balasko, in a short gray bob ...

Drama. Starring Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic and Togo Igawa. Directed by Mona Achache. In French with English subtitles. (Not rated. 93 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "The Hedgehog" has an ...

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 TWIST. Josiane Balasko, Victoria Abril. Directed by Balasko. In French with English subtitles. At the Lincoln Plaza and Quad. Running time: 105 mins. Rated R. 3 Stars LAURENT (ALAIN Chabat) ...