Though it’s as modern as can be, there’s a touch of something Shakespearean about “The Wedding Banquet.” The plot, on paper, is just straight-up farce: Trying to solve a complicated set of problems, a ...

Long the woman-behind-the-man, Bernadette Chirac (Catherine Deneuve) arrives at the presidential Elysée Palace in 1995 frustrated and all but cast off by her newly elected husband, Jacques (Michel ...