Élisa is a clumsy but well-intentioned variation on the Lolita theme.
The suggestion of incest earned the film a certain notoriety on its initial release in
France... [More...]
L’Appât is Bertrand Tavernier’s
most disturbing film to date – a dark, pessimistic but believable reflection of
adolescent disaffection and moral vacuity... [More...]
Despite the ebullient performances from its three male leads (it is always a pleasure
to see Philippe Noiret hamming it up for all he’s worth)... [More...]
Several filmmakers have attempted to combine social realist drama and
the traditional film noir thriller but few have been as successful as
French director Pierre Jolivet... [More...]
Whilst somewhat heavy on sentiment and dialogue, this wartime romantic drama from Jean-Loup
Hubert has a great deal going for it. The deeply melancholic photography evokes
not just the mood of the period in which the... [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...]
This entertaining (and surprisingly dark) satirical thriller about reality TV and megalomaniac
TV executives officially marks the directorial debut of one of France’s most promising
acting talents... [More...]
The subject of Un monde presque paisible is perhaps the most worthy that director
Michel Deville has tackled to date – a portrait of a small Jewish community struggling
to live with the aftershock of the Holocaust... [More...]
As icons go, they don’t come much greater than Edith
Piaf. Over the course of a career that spanned thirty years, Piaf
rose from being an unknown Parisian cabaret performer to become one of
the most celebrated... [More...]
