Le Cheval d'orgueil is an
atypical film for Claude Chabrol, the French New Wave director who is
better known for his slick psychological thrillers that have earned him
the epithet "the French Alfred Hitchcock"... [More...]
In this exemplary adaptation of a Georges Simenon novel, director Claude Chabrol creates
possibly his darkest and most introspective work, in which he explores some of his favourite
themes... [More...]
With two formidable actresses in the leading roles and a female director, Coup de foudre
is a rare French film with a distinctly feminine perspective... [More...]
What could easily have been a run-of-the-mill psychological thriller actually turns out
to be a thoroughly compelling and beautifully filmed piece of cinema... [More...]
This is another fine film from one of France’s most popular and prolific directors, Claude
Chabrol. It is a film that has the mood and feel of the deceptively simple thrillers
for which Chabrol is better known... [More...]
In this hard-hitting and poignant mix of social drama and thriller, director Pierre Jolivet
demonstrates his uncanny flair for tackling difficult and unusual subjects... [More...]
Bertrand Blier’s most impressive film to date, Trop belle pour toi is an intensely
melancholic and moving portrait of obsession and marital infidelity starring France’s
leading actor... [More...]
Acclaimed Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland followed up her startling
wartime drama Europa Europa
(1990) with this equally compelling psychological drama which takes an
acutely ironic look at the dysfunctional family... [More...]
This is yet another brilliantly constructed thriller from the master of the genre, Claude
Chabrol. In the best tradition of the film thriller, the suspected menace is more
imagined than real... [More...]
After his monumental and hugely successful Cyrano
de Bergerec, director Jean-Paul Rappeneau attempted an even more lavish super-production
with his next film... [More...]
Whilst not as dark and interesting as some of Chabrol’s earlier thrillers, this film is
not a bad effort. It is a pleasure to watch Isabelle Huppert and Michel Serrault
playing two pretty hard-nosed criminals who... [More...]
Despite its apparent simplicity, Fin août, début septembre is a profound
and intelligent film, confirming its director, Olivier Assayas... [More...]
Nicole Garcia’s fourth film is based on a novel by Emmanuel Carrère, drawn from
the true story of a serial killer, Jean-Claude Romand who... [More...]
Tonie Marshall’s sixth film bears some superficial similarities with her previous
success, Vénus
beauté (institut), in that both portray tangled love lives within an
artificially glamorous setting... [More...]
