For his most laudable film to date, director Patrice
Chéreau brings to the dark poetry and minimalist style of his
early films the maturity and insight of a truly great
auteur... [More...]
Having failed spectacularly in an over-zealous attempt to bring a fresh
re-interpretation of one icon of French popular culture in Belphégor... [More...]
Here’s an almost perfect example of how a surfeit of stylistic excess
and poor directorial judgement
can utterly ruin what has the potential to be a remarkable film... [More...]
There’s a distinct Hitchcockian feel to this sophisticated French
thriller, most notably in the way images, rather than dialogue, are
employed to evoke a sense of brooding menace and gradually mounting
tension... [More...]
One of the most depressing trends in French cinema recently is the one
where relatively inexperienced film directors attempt to combine genres
which are manifestly incompatible... [More...]
As icons go, they don’t come much greater than Edith
Piaf. Over the course of a career that spanned thirty years, Piaf
rose from being an unknown Parisian cabaret performer to become one of
the most celebrated... [More...]
