In a week of jewellery heists on the French Riviera, another theft has been reported at the billionaires' resort of the Hotel de Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, east of Nice.
Questions are being asked about security at the Carlton hotel in the Riviera resort of Cannes after a lone thief was able to pull off the biggest jewellery robbery in France's history. Hotel chiefs have denied any member of staff was implicated.
A French Riviera villa where "The Great Gatsby" author Francis Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda lived between 1922 and 1924 is up for sale for €27.5 million ($36 million), Sotheby's International Realty said on Friday.
He is one of France's best-loved filmstars, but for more than a decade has been plagued by drug addiction, alcohol abuse, and a proclivity for serious violence. Meet Samy Naceri, the French actor who makes Charlie Sheen look like a choirboy.
A suspected member of the notorious Pink Panther gang of international jewel thieves has been arrested near Paris,
police sources told AFP on Wednesday.
A sexually graphic lesbian love story, "Blue is the Warmest Colour" by French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche, clinched the top prize Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival in a pivotal year for gay rights.
Not everyone gets the chance to party with the stars at the Cannes festival for two days, unless that is, you are the French double of 'Gangnam style' entertainer Psy and you have the nerves of steel to pretend to be him. Meet Denis Carre our undisputed French Face of the Week.
Jewellery thieves have had some rich pickings at Cannes this year with jewellers announcing on Thursday that a €2million diamond De Grisogono necklace had been stolen, just days after €1.4 million worth of Chopard bling was pilfered.
Boos rang out at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday for a blood-spattered revenge tale starring Ryan Gosling as a US fugitive running a Bangkok drugs racket and Kristin Scott Thomas as a cross between "Lady Macbeth and Donatella Versace."
An angry Chinese film producer had some harsh words to say about France this week, suggesting the country had a problem with public safety and arrogance after being the victim of a burglary at the Cannes Film Festival.
A man was arrested on Friday after causing a scare at the Cannes Film Festival, where he attacked a TV studio
with a gun loaded with blanks and a dummy grenade, police and witnesses said.
Cannes might be a film festival, but in reality it is just as much about the glitz and glamour and actresses wearing all kinds of sublime or ridiculous outfits. Find out who won The Local's Palme d'Or for "Dress of the Day" on Thursday.
Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi has emerged as an original and talented film director, no longer in the shadow of her younger, more famous sister, Carla. At this year's Cannes festival, she is flying the flag for women as the only female director in competition.
Leonardo diCaprio had the honour on Wednesday of opening the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, which kicked off with the European premiere of the US actor's new film "Great Gatsby". The movie received mixed reviews from critics.
The red carpet will be rolled out on Wednesday when the world famous Cannes Film Festival gets underway on the French Riviera. The race for this year's Palme d'Or prize should prove fascinating with the presence of several big hitting directors in the line up.
Over the next couple of weeks the Cannes Film Festival will become home to some of the most sexy, most glamorous, most handsome names in film. So we think it's time to countdown the hottest French stars of the big screen so you know exactly who to look out for.
The jury, whose job it will be to pick a winner of the 2013 Palme d'Or award, at next month's Cannes Film Festival is taking shape with organisers announcing this week actress Nicole Kidman will be on the panel alongside Steven Spielberg.
The runners vying for the prestigious Palme d'Or award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival were announced after much speculation and anticipation on Thursday. Film French films have been included in the line up for the prize.
Jerome Salle's film "Zulu" starring Oscar winner Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom will close the 66th Cannes film
festival next month, the organisers said on Friday.
The Great Gatsby, with Leonardo di Caprio starring in a remake of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, will open the 66th Cannes Film Festival, the organisers announced on Tuesday.
Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg will lead this year's Cannes Film Festival jury, the organizers announced on Thursday, just days after he missed out on a third best director Oscar.
<p>Three children aged 8, 10 and 14 years-old ran away from their parents and travelled 1,000 km to see their grandmother last Saturday. </p>
<p>The mayor of Cannes has stopped a survey on the sexual practices of old people living in nursing homes in the southern costal town, after interviewees complained the questions were too intrusive. </p>
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