The films of
Fanny Ardant
Les Chiens (1979)
Alain Jessua
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La Femme d'à côté (1981)
François Truffaut
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La Vie est un roman (1983)
Alain Resnais
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Les Chiens comes close to being an effective
moral tale that shows the ease with which an apparently ordinary community can be transformed
into a neo-fascist colony... [More...]
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For his last but one film, François Truffaut returns to a subject which was always
close to his heart – the capacity of an intense amorous passion to take over and ultimately
wreck the lives of its subjects... [More...]
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The relationship between times past and present is a recurrent theme in Alain Resnais’
cinema. Whereas his earlier films adopt an abstract, often bewildering... [More...]
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Mélo (1986)
Alain Resnais
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Le Colonel Chabert (1994)
Yves Angelo
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Désiré (1996)
Bernard Murat
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Mélo makes a striking contrast with Alain Resnais’ previous films in which,
by and large, narrative is either lacking altogether or else achieved in an astonishingly
original way... [More...]
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This is a fine costume drama which explores the corruptness and nobility of the human
soul in the artificial and ruthless world of early nineteenth century social etiquette... [More...]
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Ridicule (1996)
Patrice Leconte
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Augustin, roi du Kung-fu (1999)
Anne Fontaine
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Le Libertin (2000)
Gabriel Aghion
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Whilst not quite in the league of earlier, more substantial historical films (a genre
in which French cinema seems always to have excelled), Ridicule is nonetheless
an impressive and entertaining film... [More...]
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Four years after his appearance in Anne Fontaine’s short film
Augustin (1995), Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc makes a welcome return
as the totally self-unaware bit actor whose ambitions are totally disproportionate... [More...]
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Le Libertin is a daring attempt to combine the lavish historical drama (for which
French cinema is particularly renowned) with bawdy farce – a film which would almost certainly
have ended up with the title “Carry... [More...]
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Change moi ma vie (2001)
Liria Bégéja
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8 femmes (2002)
François Ozon
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Nathalie... (2003)
Anne Fontaine
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Fanny Ardant and Roschdy Zem are not an obvious pairing for a romantic drama, but both
actors succeed in rendering the incredible credible and bring emotional depth and poignancy
to this stylish but largely predictable... [More...]
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With this outrageous mélange of murder mystery à la Agatha Christie and
camp pastiche of 1950s Hollywood musical, François Ozon proves that he is not just
one of France’s most versatile film... [More...]
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Once again, director Anne Fontaine explores the darker side of human sexuality in this
polished and most unusual romantic drama. It is a subject which Fontaine generally
handles well... [More...]
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