After one full-length film –
Riens du tout (1991) – and a few short
films, director Cédric Klapisch made an indelible impression on French cinema with
Le Péril jeune in 1994... [More...]
With its contemporary setting, in an ordinary area of Paris, and naturalistic performances
(most of the cast being non-professional actors), Chacun cherche son chat is less
a story about a young woman’s quest to... [More...]
Beginning life as a popular stage play, Un air de famille proved to be an even
greater success as a film, thanks largely to the quality of its script and some faultless
acting... [More...]
Intelligent, witty and very true to life, Le Blue des villes (Stéphane
Brizé’s first full-length film) provides an entertaining yet rather touching portrait
of mid-life crisis... [More...]
With this, his third film, Xavier Beauvois amply demonstrates that he is one of most promising
directors of his generation, a worthy successor to the likes of Renoir... [More...]
Having given us some breathtakingly stylish and original pieces of cinema in recent years,
François Ozon has taken most people by surprise with this latest offering: a seemingly
anodyne portrayal of a couple falling... [More...]
In this, his fourth and arguably best full-length film to date,
director Xavier Beauvois succeeds in weaving the elements of a
traditional French policier and tough social drama into a compelling... [More...]
Indigènes is a
remarkable work from French film director Rachid Bouchareb, who had
previously won acclaim for such films as Poussières de vie (1995) and
Little Senegal (2001)... [More...]
There is an uncanny prescience about this seemingly inoccuous film
comedy, released just one year before the global debt pyramid collapsed
and made the word "banker" a socially unacceptable term of abuse
(adding to the... [More...]
Director Christine Dory marks her feature debut with this compelling
tragicomic portrayal of a fraught romance involving two disparate
individuals... [More...]
