It's not surprising that a gripping movie such as Girl, about a young trans teenager embarking on hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgery, is made all the more vivid and clear by being placed in the ballet world. The art form's physically demanding nature mirrors Lara's fraughtness over her desire to achieve the near supernatural technique required for a professional ballet dancer with a body that's holding her back, physically and emotionally.

If some Broad City fans married some cult followers of Bridget Jones' Diary and moved to France, they might produce something like Chris Lang's new TV show, The Hookup Plan (Plan Cœur, 2018). 

French police authorities described it as "the heist of the century". Ex-cop turned crime thriller specialist Olivier Marchal takes on the true story of the Carbon Connection scandal in Carbon (Carbone, 2017).

Netflix has stepped up their French film game with a new snappy group action comedy, served straight up with a twist: The World is Yours (La monde est à toi, 2018).