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The films of
Fanny Ardant
Fanny Ardant
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Les Chiens (1979) Alain Jessua |
La Femme d'à côté (1981) François Truffaut |
Les Uns et les autres (1981) Claude Lelouch |
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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...] | 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...] | Claude Lelouch’s sprawling epic Les Uns et les autres originally ran to six hours and cost 50 million French francs to make (by far Lelouch’s most ambitious film)... [More...] |
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La Vie est un roman (1983) Alain Resnais |
Vivement dimanche! (1983) François Truffaut |
L'Amour à mort (1984) Alain Resnais |
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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...] | François Truffaut’s last film is a pleasing résumé of his cinema work, and certainly an entertaining film in its own right... [More...] | Whilst not in the league of Resnais’ earlier cinematic achievements, L’Amour à mort offers a solemn and unusual meditation on the relationship between love and death... [More...] |
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Le Paltoquet (1986) Michel Deville |
Mélo (1986) Alain Resnais |
Le Colonel Chabert (1994) Yves Angelo |
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| With tongue firmly in cheek and an evident gush of creative flair, Michel Deville happily deconstructs the comedy thriller in this visually striking minimalist film... [More...] | 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...] | 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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Désiré (1996) Bernard Murat |
Ridicule (1996) Patrice Leconte |
Augustin, roi du Kung-fu (1999) Anne Fontaine |
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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...] | 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 (2000) Gabriel Aghion |
Change moi ma vie (2001) Liria Bégéja |
8 femmes (2002) François Ozon |
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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...] | 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...] | 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...] |
