As French cinema basks in Academy Awards attention, actors who allege they were teenage victims of sexual and physical abuse by directors decades older than them are shining the light on the ...

Vacth stars opposite a raft of well-known French actors, Niels Schneinder (“Heartbeats”) Emmanuelle Bercot (“My King”), Slimane Dazi (“A Prophet”) and Sofian Khammes (“November”).

The trial of French actor Gerard Depardieu on sexual assault charges has opened in his absence, who has declared himself to be ill. His lawyer, Jeremie Assous, said earlier that Depardieu ...