This is a chilling thriller-drama from one of France’s most acclaimed directors, and stars
three very talented actresses. Based on a Ruth Rendell novel... [More...]
This light-hearted portrayal of the lives of Pierre and Marie Curie was based on a celebrated
1989 stage play written by Jean-Noël Fenwick. Historically accurate for the
most part... [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...]
L’École de la chair is an unsentimental, refreshingly honest portrayal of
two people’s quest for emotional and sexual fulfilment... [More...]
In common with many of Benoit Jacquot’s films, Pas de scandale is an intensely
sombre character study centred around one person experiencing a mid-life crisis... [More...]
Benoît Jacquot’s daring adaptation of Marivaux’s 18th Century play was not a great
commercial success but it makes an unusual, hugely original transposition of a stage work
to the big screen... [More...]
This lavish period epic is an unexpected and radical departure for director Olivier Assayas,
who has acquired a reputation as very modern and unconventional film-maker... [More...]
After the comparative disappointment of his previous two films, Claude Chabrol more than
redeems himself with this chilling, multi-layered suspense thriller... [More...]
One of the most controversial and critically acclaimed French language films of 2001,
La Pianiste is not a comfortable film to watch but it is profoundly moving and
compelling in its depiction of sexual repression and... [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...]
Olivier Dahan’s take on the road movie begins well enough, introducing a middle-aged
prostitute and portraying her estranged relationship with her daughter convincingly... [More...]
Alexandra Leclère makes a promising directorial debut with this bittersweet portrait
of two chalk and cheese sisters who are driven to reconcile their deep-seated differences
in a period of mid-life crisis... [More...]
Here’s an almost perfect example of how a surfeit of stylistic excess
and poor directorial judgement
can utterly ruin what has the potential to be a remarkable film... [More...]
Despite the bold disclaimer offered at the start of the film, L’Ivresse du pouvoir is clearly a
pseudo-dramatisation of the Elf Aquitaine fraud case that came to trial
in a blitz of publicity in 2003... [More...]
Having won acclaim for his first two full-length films – Folie privée (2004) and Ça rend heureux (2006) -
Belgian director Joachim Lafosse continued to pick up plaudits by the
bucket load with his... [More...]
