This is a very funny film which, in spite of the storyline, is not as black as the opening
scene would suggest. Jeunet and Caro’s filmographic style is unusual... [More...]
This is a melancholic and exquisitely perceptive analysis of the disintegration of a relationship.
The film manages to evoke – without histrionics or sentimentality... [More...]
This sombre work provided ample opportunity for director Nicole Garcia to explore the
psychology of men, one of her main motivations for making the film... [More...]
The 1990s was a good decade for French cinema, with some great internationally acclaimed
successes and booming box office receipts in France. But there is one film that
stands out above all others for its impact... [More...]
Perhaps no one is better placed than Diane Kurys to make a film which explores a turbulent
period in the life of one of France’s most controversial women writers... [More...]
Having won critical acclaim for his first full length film Ressources
humaines (1999), a hard-hitting social drama, Laurent Cantet furthered his reputation
as one of France’s most promising directing talents with... [More...]
Marion Vernoux’s fourth film is this joyful romantic comedy in which the chaotic love
lives of four disparate characters are woven – with the skill of a master craftsman –
into a colourful slice of life... [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...]
Tonie Marshall’s sixth film bears some superficial similarities with her previous
success, Vénus
beauté (institut), in that both portray tangled love lives within an
artificially glamorous setting... [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...]
Costa-Gavras, renowned for an impressive series of political
thriller-dramas in the ’70s and ’80s, makes a rare excursion into black
comedy with this inspired adaptation of a popular novel by American
writer... [More...]
Anyone who enjoyed Christian Vincent’s beguiling 1994 film La
Séparation is encouraged to take a look at this
similar, lovingly crafted portrait of domestic strife... [More...]
