Shortly after completing work on Jules et Jim, François Truffaut was commissioned
by the producer Pierre Roustang to contribute a short film segment to his anthology L’Amour
à vingt ans... [More...]
The multi-part film is a difficult kind of cinema to get right but Duvivier’s
Le Diable et les dix commandements is a rare exception where the form succeeds admirably... [More...]
Six years after Antoine Doinel appeared in the Antoine et Colette segment of the
compendium film L’Amour à vingt ans, François Truffaut
felt the time was right to resurrect his famous alter ego... [More...]
Following a line from his earlier film, La
Voie lactée (1969), Luis Buñuel gives free reign to his own phantom
of liberty in this highly entertaining satirical comedy... [More...]
Téchiné’s second film is a curious mix of black comedy, romantic drama and
nostalgia, told in an unsettling inconsistent style. The film begins as what appears
to be a straightforward provincial romance... [More...]
Barocco is in essence a great film which has been savagely mutilated through a
combination of not entirely convincing acting and excessively self-conscious photography... [More...]
In stark contrast to the crime thrillers with which Belmondo is better known, Le Corps
de mon ennemi has an almost total absence of action and physical displays of violence... [More...]
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...]
André Téchiné directs this intensely sombre portrait of the famous
Brontë sisters with a love of his subject and an acute artistic vision... [More...]
Romy Schneider delivers one of her most memorable performances in this lavish period production
from director Francis Girod. The Austrian-born actress who became a star of French
cinema in the 1960s was at her peak when... [More...]
In a similar vein to Oury’s phenomenally successful 1966 film La Grande vadrouille,
L’As des as is a lavish action-comedy set at the time of the Third Reich... [More...]
The term "reality TV" hadn’t even been coined when this film was
released in the early 1980s, yet what it shows is a vision of the
future that has all but become our present reality... [More...]
In this film, an adaptation of the final volume of Marcel Proust’s sixteen-volume
epic À la récherche du temps perdu (aka: In Remembrance
of Things Past)... [More...]
A wacky film if ever there was one, Sur un air d’autoroutetakes a conventional
(pretty mundane) love story and twists it into a hip, surreal black comedy... [More...]
