Renowned for her stuffy, old world attitude, the wife of former French president Jacques Chirac gets the comedic treatment in "Bernadette", starring Catherine Deneuve as the eponymous first lady. FRANCE 24 film critic Lisa Nesselson describes it as "a joyful comedy anchored in French political history" including behind-the-scenes political dealings and a style makeover from Karl Lagerfeld.
We also look at a retrospective dedicated to the "godmother of the French New Wave" Agnès Varda, a thriller from first-time director Iris Kaltenbäck about a friendship upended by pregnancy, and the re-release of drug-addled literature romp "Naked Lunch."
