The films of
Jean-Hugues Anglade
L'Homme blessé (1983)
Patrice Chéreau
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Subway (1985)
Luc Besson
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37°2 le matin (1986)
Jean-Jacques Beineix
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Arguably one of the darkest screen portrayals of homosexual awakening, L’Homme blessé
is director Patrice Chéreau’s most controversial work to date... [More...]
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Subway was the film that brought fame and international notoriety to French film
director Luc Besson. It is a psychedelic, electrically charged excursion into 1980s
punk surrealism... [More...]
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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...]
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Nocturne indien (1989)
Alain Corneau
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Nikita (1990)
Luc Besson
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Nuit d'été en ville (1990)
Michel Deville
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After a series of what are now regarded as classic French thrillers, including
Police Python 357 (1976) and
Le Choix des armes (1981), director Alain
Corneau made an unexpected change of tack in the mid-1980s... [More...]
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Although it has not aged particularly well, Nikita was one of the most influential
films of the 1990s. It further raised the profile of contraversial director Luc
Besson and had great influence on subsequent films of... [More...]
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Nuit d’été en ville is arguably director Michel Deville’s most daring
film, and certainly one of his most intimate. The narrative could hardly be simpler
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Les Marmottes (1993)
Elie Chouraqui
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La Reine Margot (1994)
Patrice Chéreau
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Léon (1994)
Luc Besson
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An all-star cast (which includes some of the biggest names in French cinema) somehow manages
to make this inconsequential film pass for entertainment... [More...]
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La Reine Margot is an impressive historical drama, which distinguishes itself from
earlier films of the genre by being far more graphic when it comes to depicting the violence
of the time... [More...]
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With Léon, French film director Luc Besson followed the successful formula
he skilfully engineered in his earlier film Nikita, creating another fast-moving action
movie based around the traumatised lives of its... [More...]
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