In one of the best and most spectacular French film of the 1990s, Jean-Paul Rappeneau
manages to pull of the definitive film version of the Cyrano de Bergerac tale... [More...]
Georges Lautner was the third film director to adapt Georges Simenon’s novel Les
Inconnus dans la maison. After Henri Decoin’s masterful 1942
version (which starred the acting legend Raimu
) came Pierre Rouve’s... [More...]
Eric Rochant’s third full-length film is this ambitious big-budget thriller-drama which
explores the morally dubious activities of the Israeli intelligence agency... [More...]
Based on a play by the eminent French film director Sacha Guitry (which was never
performed), this film offers some fascinating insights into one of the most enigmatic
and influential of French historical figures.
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L’Appartement is the remarkable debut film from director Gilles Mimouni, an extraordinary,
almost unique blend of thriller and romantic comedy which constantly has the spectator
hooked and surprised... [More...]
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...]
Le Septième ciel is characteristic of Benoît Jacquot’s individual
style of cinema, a compelling portrait of troubled yet seemingly ordinary individuals
who find themselves driven to the edge by events... [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...]
This brilliantly scripted romantic comedy makes a perfect vehicle for Fabrice Luchini,
for one of France’s most cultivated and eloquent actors... [More...]
Benoît Jacquot’s daring adaptation of Marivaux’s 18th Century play was not a great
commercial success but it makes an unusual, hugely original transposition of a stage work
to the big screen... [More...]
Claude Mouriéras’ third film is a poignant work which examines the fragile relationship
been an estranged father and the three daughters he walked away from when they were young
girls... [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...]
For his fifth film, Pierre Salvadori follows a familiar pattern of outlandish comedy etched
with bittersweet drama, revolving around the romantic entanglements of two improbably
paired male characters... [More...]
