One of Claude Miller’s most acclaimed works, and winner of the Prix Louis-Delluc in 1985,
L’Effrontée is an extraordinarily engaging film with its heartrending portrait
of adolescence... [More...]
The plot may be simple and a little unsophisticated, but this is nevertheless a well-made
and thought-provoking piece of cinema. This is due mainly to Eric Rochart’s masterful
direction and to some class A acting... [More...]
Artistically brilliant in its presentation but structurally an incoherent, self-indulgent
muddle, Merci la vie is a film that has as many goods points as bad... [More...]
A decade after directing his first film,
Marche à l’ombre (1984), Michel Blanc
once again takes up the directorial baton and the result is Grosse
fatigue... [More...]
Having made a career as one of the most successful screenwriters in French cinema, Danièle
Thompson finally made the transition to director with La
Bûche... [More...]
Patrice Leconte once more demonstrates his uncanny diversity as a filmmaker, eschewing
the pretty romanticism of his earlier romantic dramas for a darker... [More...]
It’s hard to see how director Claude Berri could go wrong with a cast which includes five
of the most highly rated actors in French cinema, but goes wrong he most certainly does
in this banal... [More...]
Director Dominik Moll followed his hugely successful
Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien (2000)
with a film that is even more weird and unpredictable... [More...]
Prête-moi ta main offers a welcome
respite from the blizzard of vulgar, trite
and overly Americanised comedies that have assailed French cinema in
recent years... [More...]
