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The films of
Cécile De France
Cécile De France
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Irène (2002) Ivan Calbérac |
L'Auberge espagnole (2002) Cédric Klapisch |
Haute tension (2003) Alexandre Aja |
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| 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...] |
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La Confiance règne (2004) Étienne Chatiliez |
Les Poupées russes (2005) Cédric Klapisch |
Fauteuils d'orchestre (2006) Danièle Thompson |
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| 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...] | Whilst her work as a director hasn’t yet earned her the acclaim that her screenwriting has, Danièle Thompson certainly knows how to make films that have a wide popular appeal... [More...] |
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Mauvaise foi (2006) Roschdy Zem |
Mon colonel (2006) Laurent Herbiet |
Quand j'étais chanteur (2006) Xavier Giannoli |
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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...] |
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J'aurais voulu être un danseur (2007) Alain Berliner |
Un secret (2007) Claude Miller |
Mesrine: L'Instinct de mort (2008) Jean-François Richet |
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If he were here to see it, Jacques Mesrine would doubtless be delighted with the epic big budget diptych about his life that hit cinema screens in 2008 and 2009... [More...] |
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Où est la main de l'homme sans tête? (2009) Guillaume Malandrin |
Soeur Sourire (2009) Stijn Coninx |
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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...] |
