Attracting around 7.2 million cinema-goers in France alone, Les Aventures de
Rabbi Jacob was by far the most popular film to be released in France in 1973... [More...]
An amusing variation on the Bonnie and Clyde story, À nous deux is fairly
representative of director Claude Lelouch’s films from the 1970s... [More...]
Visually, this is a stunning piece of cinema – and a great debut for film director Jean-Jacques
Beineix. The photography is so fast, energetic and just plain classy that it leaps
off the screen and grabs you by... [More...]
Le Grand carnaval is unusual in that it presents the lighter side of war, using
this as a backdrop to a poignant personal drama. Graphic images of war are kept
well out of the picture... [More...]
In a similar vein to Blier’s splendidly surreal Buffet froid, Notre histoire
takes conventional themes, such as bourgeois hypocrisy and obsessive love... [More...]
After the comparative failure of his second film, La Lune dans le caniveau (1983),
French film director Jean-Jacques Beineix managed to redeem himself in the eyes of both
critics and cinema-goers with his third film... [More...]
Gérard Jugnot’s engaging performance brings a genuine human dimension to what would
otherwise have been a pretty routine heist movie. Jugnot is perhaps better known
for his ebullient comic performances... [More...]
This bittersweet comedy makes a poignant statement about the importance of friendship
and family in an increasingly fragmented society. Beautifully filmed... [More...]
An obvious marketing gimmick of the most cynical kind (released to coincide with the 2002
Soccer World Cup in which France had high hopes of repeating its 1998 victory)... [More...]
With some spectacular special effects (including a stunning car chase and an imaginative
disaster movie sequence set in the centre of Paris), some great comedy and a sublime cast
of established actors... [More...]
After the comparative disappointment of the first live action Asterix film – Astérix
et Obélix contre César (1999) – virtually no one was prepared for
the phenomenon Astérix &... [More...]
