indieWIRE spoke with Leconte after a recent AFI screening of “Intimate Strangers.” Paramount Classics releases it today. indieWIRE: You started out as a cartoonist, right? Patrice Leconte: Yes and no.

The man from the train appears in the town, seeming to have blown in with the early-evening breeze, as weathered as the leather jacket that flaps dutifully around his solid frame. His name, unknown to ...

French filmmaker Patrice Leconte doesn’t have a best friend. And that suits him just fine. “I have very good friends,” says the 59-year-old writer-director of such films as “Ridicule,” “The ...

Patrice Leconte’s “Intimate Strangers” opens with the brisk economy of a film made by a master screen storyteller. A beautiful but distraught-looking young woman (Sandrine Bonnaire) enters a fine old ...

When it comes to a decidedly different perspective on romance, leave it to French director Patrice Leconte to redefine the parameters of love and obsession. Few tales of unrequited lust are as ...

Bowing Dec. 31 in France, the Wild Bunch-sold “Do Not Disturb,” re-twinning Patrice Leconte and Christian Clavier, the latter hot off “Bad (Serial) Weddings,” looks set to Leconte his best box office ...

French helmer Patrice Leconte is once again venturing into animation with “Music!” a €15 million ($19.9 million) English-language musical feature. The family toon turns on the adventures of Nina, an ...

IFC Films has acquired all U.S. rights to Patrice Leconte's French comedy "My Best Friend" (Mon meilleur ami), starring Daniel Auteuil. By Gregg Goldstein, The Associated Press IFC Films has acquired ...

Though based on the Jean Teulé novel of the same name, Patrice Leconte's 3D animated adaptation is a more compressed and streamlined... Though based on the Jean Teulé novel of the same name, ...

I’d like to begin by talking about the Masterclass you’re going to give at the Paris Images Pro event this week, I know you like to experiment with several techniques in every film, so I was curious ...

Patrice Leconte is the doyen of French feelgood cinema. His 20 feature films range from knockabout comedy to villainous capers and oddball tragedy, but all are shot through with dreamlike passages in ...