The idea of a wealthy middle-aged man abandoning his wife and home for a much younger
woman in a doomed romance is hardly virgin territory, but once in a while a film is made
which seems to re-invent the formula with... [More...]
Perhaps no one is better placed than Diane Kurys to make a film which explores a turbulent
period in the life of one of France’s most controversial women writers... [More...]
This brilliantly scripted romantic comedy makes a perfect vehicle for Fabrice Luchini,
for one of France’s most cultivated and eloquent actors... [More...]
With such films as Marius
et Jeannette (1997) and À
la place du coeur (1998), Robert Guédiguian distinguished himself as a
very capable film director with a particular talent for portraying the hard lives... [More...]
Although it hasn’t enjoyed the publicity and popular success of some other notable French
films in 2001, there is little doubt that La Chambre des Officiers is one of the
highlights of French cinema in that year... [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...]
Laisser-passer, perhaps Bertrand Tavernier’s most ambitious film to date, offers
a fascinating insight into the French film industry during its blackest period... [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...]
In this, the fourth film adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s celebrated novel Le Mystère
de la chambre jaune, director Bruno Podalydès offers a distinctly personal
slant on the familiar detective mystery... [More...]
Old rivalries between France and Switzerland come to the fore in this
breezy romantic comedy from débutante Swiss film director,
Léa Fazer... [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...]
