With two formidable actresses in the leading roles and a female director, Coup de foudre
is a rare French film with a distinctly feminine perspective... [More...]
Le Grand carnaval is unusual in that it presents the lighter side of war, using
this as a backdrop to a poignant personal drama. Graphic images of war are kept
well out of the picture... [More...]
Claude Pinoteau directs this well-paced psychological thriller which features an excellent
cast headed by the irreplaceable Lino Ventura. The plot is more complex than usual
but the film’s familiar neo-noir style... [More...]
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...]
Jean-Marie Poiré is best known as the director of such hit film
comedies as Le Père Noël est une ordure
(1982) and Les Visiteurs (1993)... [More...]
La Baule-les-Pins is the third
in a loose trilogy of semi-autobiographical films in which director
Diane Kurys draws on her experiences of childhood and
adolescence... [More...]
This deliciously funny comedy from director Yves Robert brings together some of the most
familiar and best loved actors in French cinema, including the magnificent Jean Rochefort
and the ever-delightful Miou-Miou... [More...]
Beginning life as a popular stage play, Un air de famille proved to be an even
greater success as a film, thanks largely to the quality of its script and some faultless
acting... [More...]
Alain Chabat’s first solo production as a film director was the surprisingly successful
fantasy comedy Didier. What plot there is in the film could be easily be
written on the back of a small postage stamp... [More...]
On connaît la chanson marked Alain Resnais’ triumphal return to mainstream
French cinema in the late 1990s. The film, hugely popular in France... [More...]
Place Vendôme has the same alluring cold beauty of a faultless diamond, as
mesmerising as it is bewildering. It belongs to a new breed of French film noir... [More...]
After three successful social comedies (which include the popular Chacun
cherche son chat), Cédric Klapisch’s first foray into a genre film
comes as something of a surprise... [More...]
The most highly rated French film of the year 2000 was this intelligent romantic comedy
which marked the directoral debut for multi-faceted Agnès Jaoui... [More...]
After the comparative disappointment of the first live action Asterix film – Astérix
et Obélix contre César (1999) – virtually no one was prepared for
the phenomenon Astérix &... [More...]
Une femme de ménage is a surprisingly
tender and intelligent romantic comedy-drama from director-producer Claude Berri, a major
player in French cinema for over two decades... [More...]
