In one of her best – and darkest – films to date, French film director Anne
Fontaine takes that perennial favourite of French cinema, the love triangle... [More...]
Although less original and daring than Gabriel Aghion’s previous film, Pédale
douce (1996), Belle maman is a respectable
comedy-romance which benefits from an exceptional star-studded cast... [More...]
Intelligent, witty and very true to life, Le Blue des villes (Stéphane
Brizé’s first full-length film) provides an entertaining yet rather touching portrait
of mid-life crisis... [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 surprising mix of the conventional and the unexpected, Vénus beauté
(institut) is superficially a familiar modern day love story, centred around a middle-aged
woman who finally discovers true love after... [More...]
One of the French film highlights of the year 2000, Harry, un ami qui vous veut du
bien is a brilliant combination of black comedy and suspense thriller... [More...]
Whilst not as striking or as satisfying as many of Claude Miller’s previous films, Betty
Fisher et autres histoires is a strangely compelling work which offers a credible
portrayal of a fragile mother-daughter relationship... [More...]
Drawing on her own childhood recollections, Yamina Benguigui paints an evocative portrait
of a young immigrant woman and her family in this, her first full length film... [More...]
No prizes for spotting that the life and death of Diana Princess of
Wales was the main inspiration for this royal-themed send-up, the third
directorial offering from the multi-talented Valérie
Lemercier... [More...]
Camping is the latest in a
seemingly interminable line of films that attempt to make light of the
one thing the French take more seriously than just about anything
(except food): their summer holidays... [More...]
Le Passager de l’été is
one of those frustrating films that promises so much but delivers so
little. The story it tells has immense potential... [More...]
