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The films of
Roschdy Zem
Roschdy Zem
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J'embrasse pas (1991) André Téchiné |
Ma saison préférée (1993) André Téchiné |
Le Plus beau métier du monde (1996) Gérard Lauzier |
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| J’embrasse pas is a grim, melancholic portrait of a bright-eyed adolescent searching and failing to find meaning in his life. Although it doesn’t achieve the realism and force of André Téchiné’s... [More...] | This is an impressive film which succeeds admirably in exploring a complex brother-sister relationship in middle-age. During his career as a film director... [More...] | Gérard Depardieu gives a typically robust performance in this surprisingly dark black comedy about the trials and tribulations of being a schoolteacher in an inner city school in Paris... [More...] |
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Fred (1997) Pierre Jolivet |
À vendre (1998) Laetitia Masson |
Alice et Martin (1998) André Téchiné |
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| Several filmmakers have attempted to combine social realist drama and the traditional film noir thriller but few have been as successful as French director Pierre Jolivet... [More...] | This extraordinary and provocative analysis of a woman’s quest for fulfilment and self-realisation viewed from the perspective of an embittered solitary Italian is a stunning yet shocking piece of cinema... [More...] | As in his earlier film Les Voleurs, Techiné uses the trick of telling part of the story out of sequence – in this case to reveal Martin’s terrible secret... [More...] |
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Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train (1998) Patrice Chéreau |
Ma petite entreprise (1999) Pierre Jolivet |
Betty Fisher et autres histoires (2001) Claude Miller |
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| A dizzying roller-coaster of a ride, with its enormous cast and stylish, arcing camera movements, this is a striking work from the director of the acclaimed La Reine Margot ... [More...] | There are not many film makers who can use a tough social drama as the basis for a fast-moving light-hearted comedy, but Pierre Jolivet manages just that with Ma petite entreprise... [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...] |
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Change moi ma vie (2001) Liria Bégéja |
Les Clefs de bagnole (2003) Laurent Baffie |
36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004) Olivier Marchal |
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| Fanny Ardant and Roschdy Zem are not an obvious pairing for a romantic drama, but both actors succeed in rendering the incredible credible and bring emotional depth and poignancy to this stylish but largely predictable... [More...] |
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Director Olivier Marchal clearly likes his crime thrillers fast, hard-boiled and dialogue sparse. After his ultra-violent first film, Gangsters (2002)... [More...] |
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Camping à la ferme (2005) Jean-Pierre Sinapi |
Le Petit lieutenant (2005) Xavier Beauvois |
Indigènes (2006) Rachid Bouchareb |
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| Director Jean-Pierre Sinapi looks on the lighter side of racial and cultural clashes in this upbeat comedy, his third full length film to date. In common with Sinapi’s earlier Nationale 7 (2000) and Vivre me tue... [More...] | In this, his fourth and arguably best full-length film to date, director Xavier Beauvois succeeds in weaving the elements of a traditional French policier and tough social drama into a compelling... [More...] | Indigènes is a remarkable work from French film director Rachid Bouchareb, who had previously won acclaim for such films as Poussières de vie (1995) and Little Senegal (2001)... [More...] |
