Two years before he created a sensation at the 1995 Cannes film festival with
La Haine, a controversial film about racial
tension in the housing estates of Paris... [More...]
The 1990s was a good decade for French cinema, with some great internationally acclaimed
successes and booming box office receipts in France. But there is one film that
stands out above all others for its impact... [More...]
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...]
With his first full length film, director Dutch Jan Kounen set out to shock, and with
Dobermann he manages to achieve just that. This is 100 minutes of non-stop
comic-book violence... [More...]
Luc Besson’s version of the Joan of Arc story is original and exciting, but sadly lacks
the impact and flair of earlier attempts by other French film directors (most notably
Dreyer’s La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc... [More...]
Mathieu Kassovitz’s first venture into the big budget genre film is a bold attempt to
beat the Americans at their own game – a fast-moving... [More...]
Given that monster movies and fantasy/horror films have (nearly) always managed to garner
popular success, it is somewhat odd that France’s most celebrated true-life horror story
hasn’t already made it into... [More...]
With such films as the noirish thriller Regarde
les hommes tomber (1994) and the tragicomic wartime drama Un
héros très discret (1996)... [More...]
With his extreme nihilistic debut shocker Seul
contre tous (1998), Argentinean born director Gaspar Noé was both reviled
and praised in almost equal measure for his outrageously provocative approach to filmmaking... [More...]
