"August, 1911: The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens in the two years before its recovery is a mystery. Many replicas of the Mona Lisa exist, and more than one historian has wondered if the painting now in the Louvre is a fake, switched in 1911. Present day: art professor Luke Perrone digs for the truth behind his most famous ancestor: Peruggia. His search attracts an Interpol detective with something to prove and an unfamiliar...

"A stunning novel of love, betrayal and family secrets for all fans of Fiona McIntosh and Natasha Lester. Raised on a vast Australian sheep farm, the beautiful Grace Woods is compelled to travel to tumultuous, postwar Paris in order to start a new life. While working as a glamorous model for Christian Dior, the world's newly acclaimed emperor of fashion, Grace mixes with counts and princesses, authors and artists, diplomats and politicians. Amongst...

Kino's presentation of AFT's Jacques Brel is alive and well and living in Paris is proof of this celebrated modern troubadour's timeless relevance and enduring passion.

In 2019, eight opera singers and 30 dancers from a wide variety of artistic and demographic backgrounds convened at Paris's Opera Bastille to begin work on an ambitious new production of Les Indes galantes, a cornerstone of French musical history. From the director of Becoming Traviata, Philippe Beziat's documentary captures the work of this multifaceted troupe under the direction of artist and filmmaker Clement Cogitore; together, they shepherd Rameau's...

Eponine, the street girl from Les Miserables, tells the story of her life and her unrequited love for Marius, which ultimately leads to her death on the barricades during the short-lived rebellion of June 1832.

Suave, smart, and somewhat strange, Raphael Balthazar can make the dead speak like no one else, as a forensic pathologist in Paris. "Seven months after his life was upended, Balthazar (Tomer Sisley) is still dealing with the fallout from his partner leaving and the revelations about his wife. Then Captain Camille Costes (Constance Labbé) steps in to work with the troubled forensic pathologist. Outspoken and boundlessly energetic, she has a bone...

""Masterful. Magnificent. A passionate story of survival and a real page turner. This story will stay with me for a long time." -Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey Living through WWII working in a Paris bookstore with her young daughter, Vivi, and fighting for her life, Charlotte is no victim, she is a survivor. But can she survive the next chapter of her life? Alternating between wartime Paris and 1950s New York...

"This intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist's work and of the vibrant Surrealist art scene in the 1930s. In 1939, devastated after the revelation that her husband had had an affair with her sister, Frida Kahlo left her home in Mexico and headed for Paris to rebuild her life and rediscover her art. Now, for the first time, this missing part of Kahlo's story is brought to light in exquisite detail. Marc Petitjean takes...

After nearly thirty years of being shut away from the public, the stuffed animals of Paris's Natural History Museum are about to see the light of day agin. In Animals and more animals, Nicolas Philibert and his unobtrusive crew are there to chronicle the 1994 preparations for the animals' return. It's a glimpse into the world behind the displays of a major museum, focusing on the fascinating work of the taxidermists.

A ... look at the glittering world of turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. Genevi�ve Hal�vy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adh�aume de Chevign�; and �lisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffuhle--these were the three superstars of fin-de-si�cle Parisian high society who,...