Le Doulos is a sophisticated policier which shows its roots in classic film noir
throughout. The American gangster movies of the 1930s and 1940s had a great appeal
to director Jean-Paul Melville and in this film he creates... [More...]
Un singe en hiver is a gentle comedy which takes a melancholic view of friendship,
nostalgia and drink. It was based on a popular novel by the French writer Antoine
Blondin... [More...]
Director Henri Verneuil originally conceived this film as a latter day
Gallic western, with lorries replacing horses, and the North African
landscape making a plausible substitute for the American
mid-west... [More...]
This energetic adventure farce owes as much to the Tintin stories of Hergé
as to the James Bond films. Filmed almost entirely on location in Brasil... [More...]
Based on the award winning novel by Robert Merle, Week-end à Zuydcoote provides
a harrowingly realistic portrayal of one of the darker episodes in World War II... [More...]
Although it was originally conceived as a modest, low budget homage to
the American gangster film, Pierrot
le fou quickly earned a reputation as one of the most important
films in French cinema and today is regarded... [More...]
By the time he came to make Paris
brûle-t-il?, René Clément was one of the most
highly regarded film directors in France. Two of his films had
won Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category... [More...]
Sadly underrated, Le Voleur is one of Louis Malle’s
most attractive films, an entertaining and beautifully crafted comedy which gleefully
satirises the attitudes of the nouveaux riches... [More...]
The film in which French New Wave director François Truffaut shows most clearly
his love of American pulp fiction and the suspense-thriller genre is very probably La
Sirène du Mississippi... [More...]
After the immense success of Le
Corniaud (1964) and
La Grande vadrouille (1966) – two of the
most popular films ever made in France – director Gérard Oury had great ambitions
for his next film... [More...]
