Eric Rohmer’s second historical film (after Die Marquise von O…) is his most provocative
and uncharacteristic work to date. It is based on a Twelfth century poem by the
French writer Chrétien de Troyes... [More...]
The second of Eric Rohmer’s Comédies et proverbes, Le Beau mariage
is a wryly satirical romantic comedy where the central heroine, a headstrong middle-class
young woman... [More...]
The third in Eric Rohmer’s series Comédies et proverbes is this light comedy
of summer romance, in which Rohmer explores the conflicting desires between men and women... [More...]
A very topical film, Rohmer’s satire of some of the absurdities of French regional politics
is very witty and surprisingly fresh. The notion that a mayor can find it easier
to obtain funding for a grotesque white... [More...]
In a film which looks suspiciously as if was conceived as a swansong for the legendary
Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni
, Chilean director Raoul Ruiz achieves a masterful melange of the surreal... [More...]
L’Ennui, the film which brought international acclaim for its director Cédric
Kahn, provides one of French cinema’s most unsettling portraits of middle-life crisis
and obsession... [More...]
Having entertained generations of adults and children, Astérix and Obélix
have certainly taken their time getting to the big screen in the flesh (as it were)... [More...]
In this film, an adaptation of the final volume of Marcel Proust’s sixteen-volume
epic À la récherche du temps perdu (aka: In Remembrance
of Things Past)... [More...]
This sixth collaboration of actor Jean-Paul Belmondo and director Philippe de Broca is
one to be avoided at all costs. De Broca’s imagination and energy have clearly been
depleted by this stage in his career... [More...]
Le Libertin is a daring attempt to combine the lavish historical drama (for which
French cinema is particularly renowned) with bawdy farce – a film which would almost certainly
have ended up with the title “Carry... [More...]
Anyone familiar with the life and work of the controversial writer
Françoise Sagan is unlikely to respond favourably to this
insipid portrait of her life... [More...]
