|
|
The films of
Jean Reno
Jean Reno
|
Clair de femme (1979) Costa-Gavras |
La Passante du Sans-Souci (1982) Jacques Rouffio |
Le Dernier combat (1983) Luc Besson |
|||
|
|
|
|||
| Clair de femme is not the kind of film you would associate with director Costa-Gavras. Best known for his high profile political thrillers, such as Z (1969) and État de siege (1973)... [More...] | In her final film appearance, Romy Schneider gives one of her finest performances – in fact two performances, since she gets to play two quite different characters caught up in a compelling revenge drama... [More...] | Luc Besson’s first full-length film is this extraordinarily bizarre yet stunningly realised post-apocalyptic drama which demands at least three viewings to make sense of it... [More...] |
|
Notre histoire (1984) Bertrand Blier |
Subway (1985) Luc Besson |
Zone rouge (1986) Robert Enrico |
|||
|
|
|
|||
| In a similar vein to Blier’s splendidly surreal Buffet froid, Notre histoire takes conventional themes, such as bourgeois hypocrisy and obsessive love... [More...] | Subway was the film that brought fame and international notoriety to French film director Luc Besson. It is a psychedelic, electrically charged excursion into 1980s punk surrealism... [More...] |
|
|
Le Grand bleu (1988) Luc Besson |
Nikita (1990) Luc Besson |
Les Visiteurs (1993) Jean-Marie Poiré |
|||
|
|
|
|||
| Luc Besson’s most personal film is a haunting visual elegy concerned with one man’s passion to be united with the sea he loves and another man’s obsession to dominate it... [More...] | Although it has not aged particularly well, Nikita was one of the most influential films of the 1990s. It further raised the profile of contraversial director Luc Besson and had great influence on subsequent films of... [More...] | The plot would appear ludicrous, but the film succeeds admirably and, in terms of box office receipts, was one of the most successful films made in France... [More...] |
|
Léon (1994) Luc Besson |
Le Jaguar (1996) Francis Veber |
Les Rivières pourpres (2000) Mathieu Kassovitz |
|||
|
|
|
|||
| With Léon, French film director Luc Besson followed the successful formula he skilfully engineered in his earlier film Nikita, creating another fast-moving action movie based around the traumatised lives of its... [More...] | At its simplest, Le Jaguar can best be summarised as a serious, bigger budget version of the French comic classic La Chèvre . Both films were written and directed by Francis Veber; both feature an improbable pairing... [More...] | Mathieu Kassovitz’s first venture into the big budget genre film is a bold attempt to beat the Americans at their own game – a fast-moving... [More...] |
|
Décalage horaire (2002) Danièle Thompson |
Tais-toi! (2003) Francis Veber |
Les Rivières pourpres II – Les anges de l'apocalypse (2004) Olivier Dahan |
|||
|
|
|
|||
| After the success of her first film as a director, La Buche, in 1999, Danièle Thompson once again took up the directorial reins with this lightweight romantic comedy... [More...] | Tais-toi is another entertaining comedy from Francis Veber, one which follows the tried and tested format of his earlier films – a mad-cap thriller narrative involving the improbable pairing of a hard man and a... [More...] | The much-publicised "sequel" to Mathieu Kassovitz’s popular 2000 film Les Rivières pourpres takes the big budget Grand Guignol spectacle of guns and gore up several notches whilst happily flushing virtually... [More...] |
