The films of
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Bernardo Bertolucci
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La Maman et la putain (1973)
Jean Eustache
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La Nuit américaine (1973)
François Truffaut
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One of the most controversial films of the 1970s, Last Tango in Paris still manages
to shock with its full-on eroticism and darkly nihilistic portrayal of
a sado-masochistic love affair involving a young woman and a man... [More...]
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One of the last great flourishes of the French New Wave, La Maman et la putain
is the one great film from director Jean Eustache, a potent and absorbing work featuring
three very different characters with very contrasting... [More...]
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Probably the most entertaining film ever made about film making, La nuit amércaine
was a triumph for film director François Truffaut. Not only is this a
great film... [More...]
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L'Amour en fuite (1979)
François Truffaut
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Détective (1985)
Jean-Luc Godard
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36 fillette (1988)
Catherine Breillat
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With L’Amour en fuite, the fifth and final instalment in the Antoine Doinel saga,
François Truffaut closes the book on his favourite character... [More...]
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In this film, Jean-Luc Godard takes a conventional detective thriller and manages to produce
something quite original – although the end result is far from accessible.
The film is loaded with Godard’s cinematographic... [More...]
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Even before she made this film, Catherine Breillat had acquired a reputation in her earlier
novels and films for her frank and explicit portrayal of female sexuality... [More...]
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Paris s'éveille (1991)
Olivier Assayas
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Irma Vep (1996)
Olivier Assayas
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Mon homme (1996)
Bertrand Blier
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Olivier Assayas’ third full-length film combines some of the elements of a noir thriller
and a conventional French love triangle but presents them as a gritty social realist drama... [More...]
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One of the most striking and critically acclaimed French films of the 1990s, Irma Vep
offers a witty and insightful comment on film-making in that decade... [More...]
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Once more, director Bertrand Blier courts controversy and the wrath of the entire feminist
movement with this anarchic black comedy. With tongue welded firmly to cheek... [More...]
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