While the French film industry, like Hollywood, is overwhelmingly liberal (think of the walkouts at the César Awards when accused statutory rapist Roman Polanski won best director in 2020), some of the biggest Gallic stars of yesteryear have loudly bucked the trend.

After a bullish year bolstered by local blockbusters, the 2025 French box office dropped by 13.6% to 156.79 million admissions, according to the National Film Board (CNC) and Comscore reports. Based on the average ticket price of €7.

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French cinema admissions dropped 13.6% year-on-year in 2025 to 156.79M admissions, against 181.52M last year, for a rough gross of $1.36B (€1.16b), according to figures released by France’s National Cinema Centre (CNC).

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Brigitte Bardot, legendary French actress and animal rights activist, has died at age 91, according to a statement from her foundation obtained by CNN.

At the height of a cinema career that spanned some 28 films and three marriages, Brigitte Bardot came to symbolize a nation bursting out of bourgeois respectability.

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And God Created Woman” made her a world-famous sex symbol in the 1950s. She later gave up acting to devote her life to animal welfare.