Elsa Zylberstein (“Simone: Woman of the Century”) will star as the French feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir in a feature film that will be penned by Oscar-winning writer Christopher Hampton and ...

This essay engages Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex to explore perverse forms of protest depicted in three films: Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, David Fincher’s Gone Girl, and Lars von Trier’s ...

Oscar-winning writer Christopher Hampton is in talks to write a screenplay with French director Anne Fontaine about iconic feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nelson ...

Matt Dillon (“The House That Jack Built”) and Charlotte Gainsbourg (“Antichrist,” “Nymphomaniac”) are attached to star in Fred Garson’s “An Ocean Apart,” a period drama about the romantic affair ...

THE France into which Simone de Beauvoir was born on the ninth of January, 1908, though fairly solidly bourgeois, was in the throes of one of its periodic crises. The country had just been shaken to ...