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Cannes 2026 Film Clip for ‘A Woman’s Life’ Starring Léa Drucker

Cannes 2026 Film Clip for ‘A Woman’s Life’ Starring Léa Drucker

Published by Daniella Wilson

French writer-director and actress Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet has been making a name for herself as a rising voice exploring complex female stories. Her feature directorial debut, Anaïs in Love, follows a 30-year-old broke woman who has an affair with Daniel, who then decides he doesn’t want to go on like this, leading Anaïs to develop a fascination with Daniel’s partner, Emilie. Now, Bourgeois-Tacquet is back with A Woman’s Life (La vie d’une femme), starring Léa Drucker (Last Summer, Close), which world premieres in the Cannes Film Festival competition lineup on Wednesday evening. Produced by David Thion (Anatomy of a Fall) and written and directed by Bourgeois-Tacquet, the film follows 55-year-old surgeon Gabrielle, whose carefully constructed life and career are shaken up by an encounter with a young novelist who watches her as part of her work on a book that she is writing. Mélanie Thierry and Charles Berling also star in the movie, for which Be for Films is handling international sales. “Gabrielle, 55, gives herself to her work, body and soul,” reads a synopsis for …

Léa Seydoux, Catherine Deneuve to Pull Double Duty

Léa Seydoux, Catherine Deneuve to Pull Double Duty

Published by Daniella Wilson

The Cannes Film Festival 2026 lineup has been revealed, and it will, once again, see stars walking the red carpet to present their latest movies. Some stars will even pull double duty on the Croisette, namely two French superstars: Léa Seydoux and Catherine Deneuve. Artistic director Thierry Fremaux, with president Iris Knobloch by his side, unveiled the official selection, the popular Un Certain Regard sidebar and other parts of the program for the 79th edition of the world’s biggest film festival in a press conference in the French capital. Deneuve features in Parallel Tales, Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi‘s first feature film since A Hero. The stellar French cast also includes Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel and Pierre Niney. Parallel Tales will screen in the competition section of the Cannes 2026 festival. Meanwhile, both Deneuve and Seydoux star in Gentle Monster, the new film from Corsage director Marie Kreutzer, which tells the story of two women. Seydoux plays Lucy, who sacrifices her own career as a renowned pianist to support her husband after his burnout, moving with him and their young …

Joanna ‘JoJo’ Levesque Will Replace Lea Michele in ‘Chess’ on Broadway

Joanna ‘JoJo’ Levesque Will Replace Lea Michele in ‘Chess’ on Broadway

Published by Daniella Wilson

Joanna “JoJo” Levesque will take over Lea Michele’s role in Chess on Broadway.  Levesque will play Florence Vassy starting June 23 through Sept. 13, opposite Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher. This marks Levesque’s return to Broadway after she starred in Moulin Rouge as Satine for several months in 2023 and again in 2024.  Levesque rose to fame with the hits “Leave (Get Out)” and “Too Little Too Late” and became the youngest solo artist to top the Billboard Mainstream Top 40. She won a 2020 Grammy for “Say So” with PJ Morton and has sold more than 8 million albums worldwide across her career. In addition to her previous Broadway runs, Levesque originated the role of Tess in Working Girl at La Jolla Playhouse. The musical sees Vassy caught between American chess prodigy Freddie Trumper, played by Tveit, whom she coaches and once loved, and Russian grandmaster, Anatoly Sergievsky, played by Christopher, who begins to catch her eye. The cast also features Hannah Cruz, Bryce Pinkham, Bradley Dean and Sean Allan Krill. The revival features …

The Bodyguard Affair by Amy Lea

The Bodyguard Affair by Amy Lea

Published by José Betancourt

Amy Lea’s fourth novel enters the spotlight with a premise that feels deliciously meta: a secret romance author whose steamiest book sparks real-life scandal. In “The Bodyguard Affair,” Lea crafts a story where the boundaries between fiction and reality blur in the most compelling way, delivering a second-chance romance wrapped in political intrigue, fake dating, and the kind of emotional depth that lingers long after the final page. The story centers on Andi Zeigler, a woman living a carefully compartmentalized existence. By day, she serves as the unflappable personal assistant to the Canadian Prime Minister’s wife. By night, she transforms into a bestselling romance novelist writing under a pen name. When her book about a forbidden affair between a staff member and the Prime Minister becomes a cultural phenomenon, whispers begin circulating that art might be imitating life. Enter Nolan Crosby, the PM’s new close protection officer and the man who witnessed Andi at her most vulnerable during a spectacularly awkward encounter three years prior. Their solution to the scandal? A summer-long fake relationship that …