Kristen Stewart drew a packed house of festivalgoers, locals and fans at France’s Deauville Film Festival for her masterclass titled My French Cinema and organized with Chanel. For the occasion, Stewart curated a list of her all-time favorite French movies and candidly discussed why they inspired her as an actor and filmmaker.

Ranging across different eras and styles, the films she chose have in common a certain boldness, from Louis Malle’s “Elevator to the Gallows” (1958) to Alain Renais’ “Hiroshima Mon Amour” (1959), Catherine Breillat’s “A Real Young Girl” (1976), Leos Carax’s “The Lovers on the Bridge” (1991), Krzysztof Kieślowski’s “The Double Life of Veronique” (1991) and Michael Haneke’s “The Piano Lesson” (2001).

In her typical unfiltered, brainy and self-deprecating fashion, St

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