The films of
Charles Berling
Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Claude Sautet 		  Ridicule (1996)
Patrice Leconte 		  Les Palmes de M. Schutz (1997)
Claude Pinoteau 		 
     
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...]  
Nettoyage à sec (1997)
Anne Fontaine 		  Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train (1998)
Patrice Chéreau 		  L'Ennui (1998)
Cédric Kahn 		 
     
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...]  
Un pont entre deux rives (1999)
Frédéric Auburtin 		  Les Destinées sentimentales (2000)
Olivier Assayas 		  Cravate club (2002)
Frédéric Jardin 		 
     
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! (2003)
Diane Kurys 		  Père et fils (2003)
Michel Boujenah 		  Agents secrets (2004)
Frédéric Schoendoerffer 		 
     
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...]    [More...]  
J'ai vu tuer Ben Barka (2005)
Serge Le Péron 		  La Maison de Nina (2005)
Richard Dembo 		  Un fil à la patte (2005)
Michel Deville 		 
     
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...]    [More...]    [More...]  

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