Exquisitely funny, socially relevant and more than a little subversive, Gazon maudit
exemplifies French cinema’s flair for romantic comedy and boldly pushes the genre
into new territory... [More...]
Alain Chabat’s first solo production as a film director was the surprisingly successful
fantasy comedy Didier. What plot there is in the film could be easily be
written on the back of a small postage stamp... [More...]
Le Libertin is a daring attempt to combine the lavish historical drama (for which
French cinema is particularly renowned) with bawdy farce – a film which would almost certainly
have ended up with the title “Carry... [More...]
You should always be wary of any film which boasts more than half a dozen A-list actors.
There is of course the chance that the script is so mind-bogglingly brilliant that any
actor would jump at the chance to appear... [More...]
This lightweight black comedy was inspired by a well-known 1951 film
La Poison, directed by Sacha Guitry and starring
Michel Simon. Whilst it may not be as satisfying as that earlier film... [More...]
Cette femme-là builds on director Guillaume
Nicloux’s previous forays into the policier genre, Le
Pouple (1998) and Une
affair privée (2002)... [More...]
It’s hard to imagine that the director of the classic French comedy
Gazon maudit could be responsible for this
limping excursion into wastelands of mediocrity... [More...]
Madame Edouard is the first full-length film
from successful Belgian writer Nadine Monfils, an inspired adaptation of the first in
her series of popular crime novels featuring the unconventional detective Léon... [More...]
It would be easy to dismiss J’ai vu tuer Ben Barka
as nothing more than a self-indulgent pastiche of 1960s French thriller. Anyone
familiar with this kind of film cannot help but notice the seemingly endless references
... [More...]
Despite a severe mauling from the critics, Les Bronzés 3 was the big event in French cinema in
2006, achieving a spectacular sale of 10.4 million tickets... [More...]
