After a string of box office hits (not least of which were the early “
Gendarmes” films) director Jean Girault and comic actor Louis de Funès
found further success with Les Grandes vacances... [More...]
With its memorable dream-like photography and impassioned acting performances, César
et Rosalie – quite possibly Claude Sautet’s best film... [More...]
This gentle farce has some entertaining sequences but is let down by a generally lacklustre
script and some unimaginative direction. It boasts a respectable cast... [More...]
An amusing variation on the Bonnie and Clyde story, À nous deux is fairly
representative of director Claude Lelouch’s films from the 1970s... [More...]
This typical early ‘80s French thriller proved to be a huge success for its producer and
lead actor, Alain Delon. The film was based on a successful novel by the writer
Jean-Patrick Manchette... [More...]
Van Gogh was the penultimate work from Maurice Pialat, one of France’s most
controversial film directors of the 1980s and 1990s. Pialat established himself
with his uncompromising social realist dramas... [More...]
Eric Rochant’s third full-length film is this ambitious big-budget thriller-drama which
explores the morally dubious activities of the Israeli intelligence agency... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier won the Best Director César for this powerful and unusual wartime
drama in which he skilfully explores the psychological impact of war on young soldiers... [More...]
Once more, director Bertrand Blier courts controversy and the wrath of the entire feminist
movement with this anarchic black comedy. With tongue welded firmly to cheek... [More...]
L’École de la chair is an unsentimental, refreshingly honest portrayal of
two people’s quest for emotional and sexual fulfilment... [More...]
How can any director make a film about Alzheimer’s disease without falling prey to tired
clichés or heavy sentimentality? What hope is there in this subject to attract
... [More...]
After Tonie Marshall’s previous cinematic offering, the witty and incisive
Vénus beauté (institut),
Au plus près du paradis comes as something
of a major disappointment... [More...]
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...]
Austrian director Michael Haneke returns to form with this sophisticated psychological
thriller which explores the devastating consequences of pent-up guilt to great effect... [More...]
