FRENCH cinema is on a roll at City Screen, York. After week-long runs for The Concert and Leaving since last Friday, that duo makes way for Gainsbourg (15) and Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (15) today.

What’s more, the separate Four of the Best season of French films at the Coney Street cinema is still running: The Girl On The Train will conclude the series on Tuesday at 6.15pm.

Directed by Joann Sfar, Gainsbourg is a frank look at the life of an enigmatic musician whose legacy is second only to his legend. Based on the director’s graphic novel of the same name, this 135-minute film offers an introspective glimpse in to the world of French singer Serge Gainsbourg (Eric Elmosnino), from his tough childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris to his death in 1991, via his successful yet troubled peak as a songwriter in the 1960s.

Jan Kounen’s sumptuous biopic Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky delves into the style icon’s past to bring Coco Chanel’s creative inspirations to the fore. The year is 1913, and Coco (Anna Mouglalis) meets Russian composer Stravinsky (Mads Mikkelsen) for the first time at a performance of his revolutionary yet then controversial ballet The Rite Of Spring.

Seven years later and Stravinsky is broke and living in the margins of society.

From here on, Kounen spotlights the passionate relationship between the two inimitable cultural forces, telling how their friendship bloomed into a love affair that would profoundly alter the course of both their lives.

As Coco launches her signature scent, Chanel No 5, Stravinsky rebuilds his shattered career to change the face of classical music.

Emilie Dequenne, Nicolas Duvauchelle and Catherine Deneuve star in The Girl On The Train, André Téchiné’s sincere and tender retort to a nation’s fury spawned by a young Frenchwoman’s claim that she had been the victim of an anti-Semitic assault, only to be exposed as a liar.

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• THE Picturehouse Docs season at City Screen, York presents Tom DiCillo’s documentary on The Doors, When You’re Strange (15) on Sunday at 8pm. As an added attraction to observing Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore at work, rest and play, Johnny Depp narrates this eulogy to this elusive, incendiary American rock band.

• YORK Pride Weekend hosts Sunday’s 8.30pm screening of Kinky Boots (12A) at City Screen, York.

Julian Jarrold directs the story of a flamboyant drag queen coming to the rescue of a failing fourth-generation family business specialising in quality shoes for men.

The shoe factory needs to diversify its business to survive, creating a delicious tension between market forces and conservative attitudes to fetish footwear.

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Joel Edgerton, Nick Frost and Sarah Jane Potts lead the cast in the American-British co-production, first released in 2005.