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War and Peace goes pop in new Zach Theatre production

Jean Pierre's Upstairs is a restaurant of the old school; it emphasizes service over scene, and all employees act like professionals. Each diner is treated like he or she is the only person in the room. But the food is also surprisingly avant-garde, Chronicle food writer Rachel Feit reveals in a review of Jean Pierre's Upstairs.

An interview DBC Pierre and Dan Rhodes on tour, together

Carax's follow-up to The Lovers on the Bridge is based on Herman Melville's novel Pierre, or the Ambiguities, and is rich in images and ideas. A man who shuffles between the houses of his mother and fiancée becomes involved with a woman who says she is his illegitimate sister.

Marion Cotillard becomes the face of the working class in the latest Dardenne brothers' gem of social realism.

An acute observation of the ways in which we fail to communicate marks this French film, which won the screenwriting award at last year's Cannes Film Festival.

Until its piffling ending, Frenchman Claude Lelouch delivers a film that's intellectually cagey, potentially romantic, and, above all, an entertaining puzzle box.

Fedoras and trench coats. Film noir in cool blues and greens. Melville's 1967 film is the real deal.

Renoir is great at capturing an Impressionist atmosphere on film but this story about the family relations is dramatically inert.

Catherine Deneuve stars in this French comedy set in 1977 about a trophy wife.

Deliciously lurid crime drama is pulp in all the best ways

Paris, from the French director of When the Cat's Away, follows a half-dozen-plus Parisians and their interconnectedness.

Jean-Pierre on 'A Very Long Engagement'

Tremendously popular French film tosses together members of different social and aesthetic circles and watches as they circle each other, sniffing out sensibilities and impressions for cracks in the veneers.

This film honors the romantic notion of the starving artist while simultaneously mocking its illusions and pretensions.

Oscar winner Denys Arcand mixes crime, political commentary

The French-made Connection owes much to The French Connection

The celebrated fashion designer is tracked from 1967 to his death in 2008 in this live-action biopic

Loosely based on historic events surrounding the end of the Cold War, this French espionage film shows how some spies are just regular folks.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet wages war on war in the spirited Micmacs

Steve Buscemi directs and co-stars in this film with Sienna Miller as the pair play out an emotionally charged pas de deux.

Eighteen short films by an international who’s-who of filmmakers make up this omnibus celebrating the joys and sorrows of love and Paris, organized by neighborhood.

It’s hard to fault such a warm, bouncy, and, yes, occasionally funky genre stalwart such as this for being exactly what you’d expect.

The pace of this political thriller about a Nazi collaborator on the run for four decades (Michael Caine) is as listless as the justice system that pursued him.