Robert Guédiguian co-directed this, his first film, with Frank Le Wita. It is
set in his hometown of Marseilles, a region which provides the location for virtually
all of his films to date... [More...]
The impact of unemployment on working class families and the importance of family ties
form the basis for this engaging social-realist piece from director Robert Guédiguian... [More...]
Nénette et Boni, a film
by Claire Denis, displays characteristic features of her narrative
style: intermingling fantasies, reality, and flashbacks in a manner
that... [More...]
This delicate romance is a refreshing contrast to the traditional romantic film, particularly
of the American variety. The protagonists, Marius and Jeannette are middle-aged... [More...]
Director Robert Guédiguian followed his critically acclaimed film Marius
et Jeannette with this equally compelling and distinctive tale of love and strife
in the poor region of Marseilles... [More...]
With such films as Marius
et Jeannette (1997) and À
la place du coeur (1998), Robert Guédiguian distinguished himself as a
very capable film director with a particular talent for portraying the hard lives... [More...]
In this ambitious living fresco, Robert Guédiguian paints what is probably his
grimmest picture of the town of Marseilles. The sunny optimism of his previous films
... [More...]
This film marks a slight departure for director Robert Guédiguian, from the social
realist drama into the realms of conventional romantic melodrama... [More...]
In common with many of Robert Guédiguian’s more recent films, Mon père est ingénieur
suffers from an excess of artistic self-indulgence and an over
abundance of themes which fail to add up to... [More...]
Robert Guédiguian takes a break from the sunny French port of
Marseilles, the subject of most of his films to date, and heads East to
the former Soviet state of Armenia... [More...]
L'Armée du crime tells
the story of a group of resistance fighters in Paris in the second
world war, called the Manouchian group, after the name of one of the
leaders... [More...]
