A proposal to ban smoking in French films has been met with splutters of indignation in a land raised on images of puffing, pouting silver-screen stars.
The idea was floated last week by a senator from the opposition Socialist Party, Nadine Grelet-Certenais, during a parliamentary debate on how to help the French quit smoking.
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Raoul Coutard, the renowned cinematographer who worked with directors including Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut during the French New Wave movement, died on Tuesday aged 92, his family told AFP.
The Frenchman shot some of the biggest French films of the second half of the 20th century, including "Breathless" (1960), "Contempt" (1963), "Pierrot le Fou" (1965) and "Jules and Jim"Read more