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...]
Cette femme-là builds on director Guillaume
Nicloux’s previous forays into the policier genre, Le
Pouple (1998) and Une
affair privée (2002)... [More...]
For his most laudable film to date, director Patrice
Chéreau brings to the dark poetry and minimalist style of his
early films the maturity and insight of a truly great
auteur... [More...]
The latest film from Belgian director Lucas Belvaux is this surprisingly effective mélange
of film noir thriller, comedy and social drama – an unusual combination of genres if ever
there was one... [More...]
Mon colonel is a film that
provides a sobering reflection on the war that France would still like
to forget, and with good reason. "France without Algeria is not
France" was a mantra that was oft repeated during Algeria’s... [More...]
Affaire de famille was
presumably intended to be a blackly comedic thriller but the result
feels more like a juvenile Hitchcockian take on the theatre of the
absurd... [More...]
