The films of
Philippe Harel
Un héros très discret (1996)
Jacques Audiard 		  Extension du domaine de la lutte (1999)
Philippe Harel 		  Vénus beauté (institut) (1999)
Tonie Marshall 		 
     
This film has a great deal to commend it. Jacques Audiard’s direction is confident and mature (impressive for a second film), and the photography is exceptional throughout...  [More...]   Philippe Harel both directs and stars in this quintessentially French portrait of existentialist angst and bitter reflection on the meaningless of life...  [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...]  
Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert (2001)
Philippe Harel 		  Reines d'un jour (2001)
Marion Vernoux 		  Bienvenue au gîte (2003)
Claude Duty 		 
     
Coming hot on the heels, if not in the slipstream, of Philippe Harel’s excellent Extension du domaine de la lutte (1999), Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert is something of a let down...  [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...]   Claude Duty followed his successful musical film Filles perdues, cheveux gras (2002) with this comparatively uninspired comedy-drama, the latest in what seems like a deluge of “town to country / change of lifestyle”...  [More...]  
Tu vas rire, mais je te quitte (2005)
Philippe Harel 		  Les Randonneurs à Saint-Tropez (2008)
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