An amusing variation on the Bonnie and Clyde story, À nous deux is fairly
representative of director Claude Lelouch’s films from the 1970s... [More...]
This is an impressive film which succeeds admirably in exploring a complex brother-sister
relationship in middle-age. During his career as a film director... [More...]
With its bizarre construction (relying heavily on out-of-sequence flashbacks), Les
Voleurs appears more like an intellectual exercise than a conventional passive cinema
experience... [More...]
In a film which looks suspiciously as if was conceived as a swansong for the legendary
Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni
, Chilean director Raoul Ruiz achieves a masterful melange of the surreal... [More...]
This extraordinary and provocative analysis of a woman’s quest for fulfilment and
self-realisation viewed from the perspective of an embittered solitary Italian is a stunning
yet shocking piece of cinema... [More...]
In this film, an adaptation of the final volume of Marcel Proust’s sixteen-volume
epic À la récherche du temps perdu (aka: In Remembrance
of Things Past)... [More...]
Not for the first time, director Christophe Honoré challenges our
assumptions and expectations with a film that is breathtakingly
original in both its subject and its format... [More...]
One of the weirder French films of 2007, Persepolis is a genre-defying
cinematic oddity that was both a commercial and critical success, and
even managed to scoop the Jury Prize at Cannes that year... [More...]
