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Actor... Alain Delon Arletty Bourvil Brigitte Bardot Catherine Deneuve Daniel Auteuil Danielle Darrieux Fernandel Gérard Depardieu Gérard Philipe Isabelle Huppert Jean Gabin Jean-Paul Belmondo Jeanne Moreau Juliette Binoche Lino Ventura Louis de Funès Michel Simon Pierre Richard Philippe Noiret Romy Schneider Yves Montand

Director... Abel Gance Alain Resnais André Téchiné Bertrand Blier Bertrand Tavernier Claude Chabrol Claude Lelouch Eric Rohmer François Truffaut Gérard Oury Jacques Demy Jacques Deray Jacques Tati Jean Renoir Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Pierre Melville Julien Duvivier Louis Malle Luis Buñuel Marcel Carné Marcel Pagnol René Clair

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La Baule-les-Pins (1990) Diane Kurys   La Reine Margot (1994) Patrice Chéreau   Mon homme (1996) Bertrand Blier         La Baule-les-Pins is the third in a loose trilogy of semi-autobiographical films in which director Diane Kurys draws on her experiences of childhood and adolescence...  [More...]   La Reine Margot is an impressive historical drama, which distinguishes itself from earlier films of the genre by being far more graphic when it comes to depicting the violence of the time...  [More...]   Once more, director Bertrand Blier courts controversy and the wrath of the entire feminist movement with this anarchic black comedy. With tongue welded firmly to cheek...  [More...]   Nénette et Boni (1996) Claire Denis   J'ai horreur de l'amour (1997) Laurence Ferreira Barbosa   Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train (1998) Patrice Chéreau         Nénette et Boni, a film by Claire Denis, displays characteristic features of her narrative style: intermingling fantasies, reality, and flashbacks in a manner that...  [More...]   From its opening credits, in which the elfin Jeanne Balibar cruises around Paris astride a moped, accompanied by a song from the legendary Joe Dassin...  [More...]   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...]   Au coeur du mensonge (1999) Claude Chabrol   Ah! Si j'étais riche (2002) Gérard Bitton   5x2 (2004) François Ozon         Au coeur du mensonge is an unsettling psychological thriller from the widely recognised master of the genre, Claude Chabrol. Whilst not the director’s best work...  [More...]   Having scripted the two popular Vérité si je mens films, writers Gérard Bitton and Michel Munz made their directorial debut with this unashamedly commercial French film comedy...  [More...]   Having given us some breathtakingly stylish and original pieces of cinema in recent years, François Ozon has taken most people by surprise with this latest offering: a seemingly anodyne portrayal of a couple falling...  [More...]   Le Temps qui reste (2005) François Ozon   Quartier V.I.P. (2005) Laurent Firode   Actrices (2007) Valeria Bruni Tedeschi         Death is a subject that is seldom treated with the reverence and seriousness that it deserves in cinema. In this thoughtful meditation on mortality...  [More...]   Quartier V.I.P. is a perfect example of the truism that a great cast does not necessarily result in a great film, bien au contraire. The idea that you can throw a collection of well-regarded actors at a mediocre screenplay...  [More...]    [More...]   Le Grand alibi (2008) Pascal Bonitzer   Les Regrets (2009) Cédric Kahn            [More...]    [More...]