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.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...