Julien Duvivier’s last great film is a curious synthesis of the harsh world of famous
French author Emile Zola and his own peculiar brand of historical romanticism... [More...]
This multi-part film with an impressive star-studied cast lacks the feel of a satisfying
whole, but it is so full of magical little moments that that hardly seems to matter... [More...]
Cinematic biographies of famous artists are not a rare phenomenon, but few such films
manage to evoke the acute sense of despair and injustice that Montparnasse 19 does... [More...]
A comparatively obscure entry in the Buñuel canon, La Fièvre monte à
El Pao certainly does not show the director at his best. Despite some memorable
moments (most notably the film’s final five... [More...]
In this film, Roger Vadim skilfully transposes Choderlos de Laclos’s 1782 novel Les
liaisons dangereuses to the swinging ‘60s. The era of unfettered individualism
and sexual permissiveness provides a suitably appropriate... [More...]
