Petites coupures is Pascal Bonitzer’s third
full length film, an unusual kind of romantic comedy with a distinctly black underbelly.
Bonitzer is better known as a screenwriter than a director... [More...]
Director Olivier Marchal clearly likes his crime thrillers fast, hard-boiled and dialogue
sparse. After his ultra-violent first film,
Gangsters (2002)... [More...]
Austrian director Michael Haneke returns to form with this sophisticated psychological
thriller which explores the devastating consequences of pent-up guilt to great effect... [More...]
It’s hard to see how director Claude Berri could go wrong with a cast which includes five
of the most highly rated actors in French cinema, but goes wrong he most certainly does
in this banal... [More...]
Peindre ou faire l’amour is a curious little
film, in the mould of the familiar French film d’auteur. It broaches the taboo
subject of settled couples swapping their partners with a directness and poetry that... [More...]
Entente cordiale is the latest in a series of
French parody thrillers which plumb the depths of juvenile humour in an almost calculated
attempt to drive the public away from cinema theatres whilst ruining the reputations... [More...]
Francis Veber’s film comedies have a broad and enduring appeal, and
some, such as La Chèvre (1981) and Le
Dîner de cons (1998) have become classics of French
cinema... [More...]
With Mon meilleur ami coming
hot on the heels of Les Bronzés 3, you could
be forgiven for thinking that director Patrice Leconte has regressed to
churning out the kind of silly lightweight comedies with which... [More...]
Zabou Breitman offers a poignant and intensely evocative portrait of a
love lost but not forgotten in this compelling drama, a film
that allows Daniel Auteuil to give his most sensitive performance in years... [More...]
