Often rated as the greatest film ever made, and certainly a major triumph of French cinema,
Les Enfants du paradis offers us a timeless tale of unrequited love... [More...]
A satisfying blend of melodrama, film noir and suspense thriller, Voici le temps des
assassins is amongst Julien Duvivier’s best films. When he was a film critic... [More...]
François Truffaut’s first commercial film Les Mistons marks a definitive
turning point in French cinema history. By the mid to late 1950s... [More...]
One of the earliest of the French New Wave of films in the late 1950s/early 60s, Le
Beau Serge has a rough and ready feel to it that gives it an edge of authenticity
and emphasises the sadness without dipping into sentimentalism... [More...]
Les Cousins is definitively part of the French New Wave of the late 1950s.
Whilst slightly more polished than the films of his contemporaries (notably Godard and
Truffaut)... [More...]
