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The films of
Jalil Lespert
Jalil Lespert
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Nos vies heureuses (1999) Jacques Maillot |
Ressources humaines (1999) Laurent Cantet |
Sade (2000) Benoît Jacquot |
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| 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...] |
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Bella ciao (2001) Stéphane Giusti |
Inch'Allah dimanche (2001) Yamina Benguigui |
Pas sur la bouche (2003) Alain Resnais |
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| 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...] |
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L'Ennemi naturel (2004) Pierre-Erwan Guillaume |
Le Petit lieutenant (2005) Xavier Beauvois |
Le Promeneur du champ de Mars (2005) Robert Guédiguian |
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| 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...] |
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Virgil (2005) Mabrouk El Mechri |
Le Voyage en Arménie (2006) Robert Guédiguian |
Ne le dis à personne (2006) Guillaume Canet |
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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...] | Ne le dis à personne is the second feature from actor-turned-director Guillaume Canet, an inspired, albeit slightly muddled, adaptation of Harlan Coben’s best-selling novel Tell No One... [More...] |
