Luis Buñuel’s final film, made when the director was well into his seventies, is
a typically subversive and highly entertaining romantic comedy... [More...]
Widely regarded as one of Bertrand Blier’s greatest achievements, Buffet froid
is one of the darkest and most original of black comedies that French cinema has given
us... [More...]
Despite some racy music and some energetic, full-bodied cinematography (with some beautiful
shots of Paris), this is a thriller that, somehow, just fails to miss its mark... [More...]
Bertrand Blier’s most impressive film to date, Trop belle pour toi is an intensely
melancholic and moving portrait of obsession and marital infidelity starring France’s
leading actor... [More...]
Although the plot sounds rather grim, this is actually rather an entertaining light comedy
- well paced, well acted, with some amusing dialogue and... [More...]
A decade after directing his first film,
Marche à l’ombre (1984), Michel Blanc
once again takes up the directorial baton and the result is Grosse
fatigue... [More...]
A well-crafted and moving film in the blockbuster mould that appears to be Claude Berri’s
hallmark. Technically, the film is a splendid depiction of war-time France... [More...]
The idea of a wealthy middle-aged man abandoning his wife and home for a much younger
woman in a doomed romance is hardly virgin territory, but once in a while a film is made
which seems to re-invent the formula with... [More...]
Gérard Depardieu both co-directed and starred in this film, a conventional romantic
drama involving a love triangle, the kind of film that fits most people’s stereotypical
view of French cinema... [More...]
This magnificently orchestrated comedy of errors brings together some of the biggest names
in French cinema and is a major achievement for its director... [More...]
Feux rouges is another highly
recommended film from the talented and provocative director
Cédric Kahn, bearing some striking similarities with his earlier
Roberto
Succo (2000)... [More...]
With its atmospheric, almost Hitchcockian beginning, Un ami parfait immediately has the
feel of classic French noir-style thriller. Unfortunately, first
impressions can often be misleading and what starts out as an
intriguing... [More...]
