When Pete Rose died last year, obituaries seemed to struggle with the nuance of a great player and a complicated man.

PARIS — For powerful men in France’s film industry, this was a week of reckoning. Gérard Depardieu — the country’s most ...

Cannes director Thierry Frémaux had long been seen as emblematic of the old guard. He defended Roman Polanski for years and continued to screen his films despite the director’s 1977 guilty plea ...

Cannes director Thierry Frémaux had long been seen as emblematic of the old guard. He defended Roman Polanski for years and continued to screen his films despite the director’s 1977 guilty plea ...