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The films of
Elsa Zylberstein
Elsa Zylberstein
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Van Gogh (1991) Maurice Pialat |
XXL (1997) Ariel Zeitoun |
Le Temps retrouvé (1999) Raoul Ruiz |
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| Van Gogh was the penultimate work from Maurice Pialat, one of France’s most controversial film directors of the 1980s and 1990s. Pialat established himself with his uncompromising social realist dramas... [More...] | Although the concept behind XXL is a worthy one – to offer a down-to-Earth portrait of Jewish life in cosmopolitan France – its realisation leaves a great deal to be desired... [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...] |
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J'invente rien (2006) Michel Leclerc |
Le Concile de pierre (2006) Guillaume Nicloux |
Enfances (2008) Ismaël Ferroukhi |
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| J’invente rien is one of those modest, unpretentious French films which is nearly always a pleasure to watch, although this one has the added attraction of an enchanting leading actress in the form of Elsa Zylberstein... [More...] |
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The premise of this episodic film certainly has some merit, although the obvious inexperience of some of the contributors prevents it from being as effective and as satisfying as it might have been... [More...] |
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Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (2008) Philippe Claudel |
La Fabrique des sentiments (2008) Jean-Marc Moutout |
La maison Nucingen (2008) Raoul Ruiz |
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| Il y a longtemps que je t’aime marks a promising directorial debut for Philippe Claudel, a successful novelist whose best-known work Les Âmes grises was adapted for cinema in 2005 (with Claudel providing... [More...] |
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La Folle histoire d'amour de Simon Eskenazy (2009) Jean-Jacques Zilbermann |
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