Claude Sautet’s final film is amongst his finest achievements, a dark, intriguing tale
of repressed love performed by two of France’s most talented actors... [More...]
Whilst not quite in the league of earlier, more substantial historical films (a genre
in which French cinema seems always to have excelled), Ridicule is nonetheless
an impressive and entertaining film... [More...]
This light-hearted portrayal of the lives of Pierre and Marie Curie was based on a celebrated
1989 stage play written by Jean-Noël Fenwick. Historically accurate for the
most part... [More...]
In one of her best – and darkest – films to date, French film director Anne
Fontaine takes that perennial favourite of French cinema, the love triangle... [More...]
A dizzying roller-coaster of a ride, with its enormous cast and stylish, arcing camera
movements, this is a striking work from the director of the acclaimed La Reine Margot
... [More...]
L’Ennui, the film which brought international acclaim for its director Cédric
Kahn, provides one of French cinema’s most unsettling portraits of middle-life crisis
and obsession... [More...]
Gérard Depardieu both co-directed and starred in this film, a conventional romantic
drama involving a love triangle, the kind of film that fits most people’s stereotypical
view of French cinema... [More...]
This lavish period epic is an unexpected and radical departure for director Olivier Assayas,
who has acquired a reputation as very modern and unconventional film-maker... [More...]
Two-handed plays can often be very successful on the stage, but can they ever work
as an effective piece of cinema? This unusual, low budget French film shows that
they can... [More...]
Je reste! marks something of a departure for
director Diane Kurys, a light-hearted satire of married life, contrasting with her earlier
realistic dramas... [More...]
Michel Boujenah is yet another established high-profile French actor to have turned his
hand to film directing fairly late in his career. This, his first work... [More...]
It would be easy to dismiss J’ai vu tuer Ben Barka
as nothing more than a self-indulgent pastiche of 1960s French thriller. Anyone
familiar with this kind of film cannot help but notice the seemingly endless references
... [More...]
