The films of
Benoît Magimel
La Vie est un long fleuve tranquille (1988)
Étienne Chatiliez 		  Toutes peines confondues (1992)
Michel Deville 		  La Fille seule (1995)
Benoît Jacquot 		 
     
The beauty of this film lies not in its plot (which is as old as the hills) or the quality of the acting (which is good, but not exceptional) – but in its use of typically French humour. The film begins by contrasting...  [More...]   The central premise of the film – that the man investigating a serious crime should end up distrusting his superior as much as the villains – is an interesting one...  [More...]   Despite its simplicity, La Fille seule is an extraordinarily compelling film, offering a profound and revealing insight into the mind of a rebellious young woman who suddenly finds herself saddled with the burden of motherhood...  [More...]  
La Haine (1995)
Mathieu Kassovitz 		  Les Voleurs (1996)
André Téchiné 		  Déjà mort (1998)
Olivier Dahan 		 
     
The 1990s was a good decade for French cinema, with some great internationally acclaimed successes and booming box office receipts in France. But there is one film that stands out above all others for its impact...  [More...]   With its bizarre construction (relying heavily on out-of-sequence flashbacks), Les Voleurs appears more like an intellectual exercise than a conventional passive cinema experience...  [More...]   Déjà mort is the film which earned its director Olivier Dahan his reputation as a film director to watch out for. It is a brave attempt to push the film noir genre into new territory...  [More...]  
Une minute de silence (1998)
Florent Emilio Siri 		  Les Enfants du siècle (1999)
Diane Kurys 		  Le Roi danse (2000)
Gérard Corbiau 		 
     
Florent-Emilio Siri’s first full length-film earned him the Cyril Collard prize in 1998, although it enjoyed only a short and not hugely successful run at the cinema...  [More...]   Perhaps no one is better placed than Diane Kurys to make a film which explores a turbulent period in the life of one of France’s most controversial women writers...  [More...]   Anyone who appreciated Gérard Corbiau’s previous musical extravaganzas Le Maître de musique (1991) and Farinelli (1994) will enjoy his latest overblown music fest...  [More...]  
Selon Matthieu (2000)
Xavier Beauvois 		  La Pianiste (2001)
Michael Haneke 		  Nid de guêpes (2002)
Florent Emilio Siri 		 
     
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...]   One of the most controversial and critically acclaimed French language films of 2001, La Pianiste is not a comfortable film to watch but it is profoundly moving and compelling in its depiction of sexual repression and...  [More...]   The action thriller is a genre which is rarely attempted by French film directors, in spite of its popularity with younger cinemagoers. Nid de guêpes is a spirited and overall pretty respectable attempt to emulate ...  [More...]  
La Fleur du mal (2003)
Claude Chabrol 		  La Demoiselle d'honneur (2004)
Claude Chabrol 		  Les Rivières pourpres II – Les anges de l'apocalypse (2004)
Olivier Dahan 		 
     
With La Fleur du mal, a masterfully composed psychological drama, acclaimed director Claude Chabrol revisits his favourite theme: murder within the bosom of the provincial Bourgeoisie...  [More...]   Once again, director Claude Chabrol takes us on a sinister exploration of the darker side of human nature in another of his taut psychological thrillers...  [More...]   The much-publicised "sequel" to Mathieu Kassovitz’s popular 2000 film Les Rivières pourpres takes the big budget Grand Guignol spectacle of guns and gore up several notches whilst happily flushing virtually...  [More...]  

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