La Reine Margot is an impressive historical drama, which distinguishes itself from
earlier films of the genre by being far more graphic when it comes to depicting the violence
of the time... [More...]
This is a melancholic and exquisitely perceptive analysis of the disintegration of a relationship.
The film manages to evoke – without histrionics or sentimentality... [More...]
In 1996, Belgian director Jaco van Dormael followed his success with Toto
le héros with this emotional roller coaster of a film. Le Huitième
jour confronts the prejudices which modern society has in abundance... [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...]
Francis Girod directed this unusually cerebral thriller, a creepily dark film which explores
the shortcomings and potential dangers of psychoanalysis... [More...]
This is an action-packed two hours of swash-buckling adventure of the Three Musketeers
kind in which French cinema has revelled and excelled for decades... [More...]
A well-crafted and moving film in the blockbuster mould that appears to be Claude Berri’s
hallmark. Technically, the film is a splendid depiction of war-time France... [More...]
Perhaps the most artistically self-conscious of Leconte’s romantic comedies, La Fille
sur le pont is nonetheless an attractive film which, whilst lacking in the intellectual
stakes... [More...]
This film offers an amusing portrait of a man experiencing a mid-life crisis which propels
him into a radically new lifestyle. It was directed by Michel Blanc... [More...]
Patrice Leconte’s most ambitious film to date is this haunting period drama which contrasts
the simple humanity of a prison captain’s wife with the brutality of the French legal
system on an outpost of the... [More...]
A comedy which looks as if it were engineered more for an American market than home consumption
in France, Le Placard is the first film to be directed by Francis Veber since his
staggeringly successful 1998 film... [More...]
Nicole Garcia’s fourth film is based on a novel by Emmanuel Carrère, drawn from
the true story of a serial killer, Jean-Claude Romand who... [More...]
For his fifth film, Pierre Salvadori follows a familiar pattern of outlandish comedy etched
with bittersweet drama, revolving around the romantic entanglements of two improbably
paired male characters... [More...]
