The first of Eric Rohmer’s Six contes moraux provides an engaging portrait of male indecision
and illustrates perhaps more clearly than in the other five films Rohmer’s premise for
the series.
The central... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard’s fifth film sees a radical departure from his earlier films and the emergence
of a more politically antagonistic form of cinema... [More...]
By the mid-1960s, there were signs that the French New Wave had all but
run its course. Its leading lights – François Truffaut,
Jean-Luc Godard... [More...]
Out 1 is like a more
avant-garde Thomas Pynchon, or Honoré de Balzac on drugs. A true
piece of art, it’s unpredictable, a darkly epic tragedy one moment... [More...]
Barbet Schroeder’s film Maîtresse has enjoyed some fair notoriety in its
time, suffering pretty severely ay the hands of the critics when it was first released
(like most French erotica from this period)... [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...]
Xavier Giannoli’s second full-length film after Les Corps impatients (2003) is this
atmospheric film noir drama which bears more than a passing resemblance
to François Truffaut’s La Femme d'à côté
... [More...]
There is a cold mortuary feel to this sombre portrayal of an impossible
love affair involving a coquettish noblewoman and a soldier set in the
early part of the Nineteenth Century... [More...]
