Les Disparus de Saint-Agil is classic of French cinema, an atmospheric comedy thriller
with dark elements of fantasy and mysticism, which is regarded as one of director Christian-Jaque’s
best works... [More...]
Eddie Constantine stars in this somewhat lacklustre pastiche of film noir and
American-style action/adventure, a formula that was hugely popular in France in the 1950s... [More...]
Jean Cocteau’s final film is a fitting conclusion to a remarkable artistic career
spanning over fifty years. The film manages to encompass all aspects of Cocteau’s
creative genius and it is perhaps the best... [More...]
With one successful film (Les
quatre cents coups) under his belt, director François Truffaut was free
to indulge himself in two of his personal passions... [More...]
Inspired by a popular novel by René Havard, Un
taxi pour Tobrouk is a classic French war film that shows the brutality and absurdity
of war without slipping into sentimentality or laboured anti-war polemic... [More...]
The multi-part film is a difficult kind of cinema to get right but Duvivier’s
Le Diable et les dix commandements is a rare exception where the form succeeds admirably... [More...]
La Métamorphose des cloportes is a typically
French comedy policier of the kind that was very popular in the mid-1960s. After
the success of Georges Lautner’s 1963 film
Les Tontons flingueurs... [More...]
