This respectable comedy policier from director Claude Zidi provides ample opportunity
for the comic genius Coluche to show his talents as both an actor and a comedian... [More...]
In this film, the eternally controversial film director Jean-Luc Godard offers his distinctive
treatment of the familiar Carmen story, best known as the famous Bizet opera... [More...]
At the time, Fort Saganne was the most expensive film to have been made in France.
A three hour long epic, with an star-studded cast – headed by living icons Gerard Dépardieu
and Catherine Deneuve... [More...]
Despite some above average production values, this is a very dry political satire which
never seems to get going. Although the performances from its stars... [More...]
Manon des sources is the sequel to Jean
de Florette, taking off where that film finished. This film shares the high
production values of the earlier film... [More...]
With three impressive short films under his belt, Eric Rochant made his
feature debut with what is arguably one of the most important French
films of the 1980s... [More...]
With its shocking realism and ability to rekindle memories of the terrible Lebanese civil
war of the 1980s, Hors la vie is a film which cannot leave its spectator unmoved... [More...]
In one of her better films, Diane Kurys paints a vivid and rather
moving portrait of mid-life crisis – as experienced by the generation
that... [More...]
An exquisitely sensuous portrait of ephemeral love, Le Parfum d’Yvonne reaffirms
director Patrice Leconte’s standing as the master of the erotic romantic drama... [More...]
Eric Rochant’s third full-length film is this ambitious big-budget thriller-drama which
explores the morally dubious activities of the Israeli intelligence agency... [More...]
If there is a French film that has caused more purple prose to be
splattered across film review pages than any other in recent years it
is Arnaud Desplechin’s latest flamboyant spectacle of self-indulgence
and... [More...]
Pascale Ferran brings a uniquely feminine sensitivity to this daring
adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s novel John
Thomas and Lady Jane, the second and arguably best version of
his controversial Lady Chatterley’s
Lover... [More...]
