Here’s a film that should appeal to all aficionados of the classic French rom-com, a typically
Gallic version of Bridget Jones’s Diary that
offers an engaging... [More...]
One of the French film highlights of the year 2002, L’Auberge espagnole is
a vibrant yet intelligent comedy-drama about young people from different cultures and
nationalities coming together and discovering a shared... [More...]
Alexandre Aja’s blood-soaked homage to the kind of gratuitously gory horror films that
earned cinema a bad name in the early 1980s is certainly not a film that will appeal to
all tastes... [More...]
With his fifth film, Étienne Chatiliez revisits the rich-poor
divide which was the subject of his successful debut feature, La Vie est un long fleuve tranquille
(1988)... [More...]
It’s hardly surprising, giving the enormous success of L’Auberge espagnole (2002),
that director Cédric Klapisch would make a sequel featuring the
same menagerie of colourful characters... [More...]
Mon colonel is a film that
provides a sobering reflection on the war that France would still like
to forget, and with good reason. "France without Algeria is not
France" was a mantra that was oft repeated during Algeria’s... [More...]
With his third and best film to date, director Xavier Giannoli continues to
pick up plaudits from the critics and is fast gaining a reputation as
one of France’s most promising young filmmakers... [More...]
A low-key yet engaging film that tells the remarkable story of one of
the most bizarre cultural phenomena of the 1960s, a Dominican nun who
became a world famous singing star... [More...]
