Having distinguished himself with a series of highly regarded short films, director Jacques
Maillot went on to make this, his first full-length film... [More...]
Laurent Cantet earned instant critical acclaim with this remarkably effective social drama
which is founded on the growing rift between the working and management classes in France... [More...]
In this enchanting visual elegy tracing the lives and loves of three generations of an
Italian family, Stéphane Giusti draws on his own personal experiences and offers
a film that is both poignant and curiously... [More...]
Drawing on her own childhood recollections, Yamina Benguigui paints an evocative portrait
of a young immigrant woman and her family in this, her first full length film... [More...]
How strange that one of the great innovators of French cinema, Alain Resnais, should spend
the twilight years of his career making musical comedies... [More...]
Pierre Erwan Guillaume made his directorial debut with this, one of the most original
and intriguing French films of 2004. Starting out as what looks like a thriller
cut from the conventional policier mould... [More...]
In this, his fourth and arguably best full-length film to date,
director Xavier Beauvois succeeds in weaving the elements of a
traditional French policier and tough social drama into a compelling... [More...]
If it were merely an account of the last days
of François Mitterand, Le Promeneur du champ
de Mars would be a hard sell. Mitterand was renowned for his unwillingness
to give way secrets about himself... [More...]
Robert Guédiguian takes a break from the sunny French port of
Marseilles, the subject of most of his films to date, and heads East to
the former Soviet state of Armenia... [More...]
