Love hurts, and this film goes further than most in illustrating the point. Zulawski’s
style of film making, with its iron-fisted realism and colour-rich photography... [More...]
Another exquisitely composed portrait of mid-life crisis from Claude Sautet, Mado is
an absorbing work which engages the spectator by solidly locking onto the personal traumas
of its well-drawn characters... [More...]
An amusing variation on the Bonnie and Clyde story, À nous deux is fairly
representative of director Claude Lelouch’s films from the 1970s... [More...]
Van Gogh was the penultimate work from Maurice Pialat, one of France’s most
controversial film directors of the 1980s and 1990s. Pialat established himself
with his uncompromising social realist dramas... [More...]
The central premise of the film – that the man investigating a serious crime should end
up distrusting his superior as much as the villains – is an interesting one... [More...]
Place Vendôme has the same alluring cold beauty of a faultless diamond, as
mesmerising as it is bewildering. It belongs to a new breed of French film noir... [More...]
After the comparative disappointment of his previous two films, Claude Chabrol more than
redeems himself with this chilling, multi-layered suspense thriller... [More...]
This magnificently orchestrated comedy of errors brings together some of the biggest names
in French cinema and is a major achievement for its director... [More...]
