Jean Marais stars in this big budget historical fantasy directed by Georges Lampin.
The film’s extravagant production values are not matched by the quality of its script
nor its direction... [More...]
One of the best-loved and most memorable of all French films, Les quatre cents coups
established François Truffaut as a great film director and launched the acting
career of Jean-Pierre Léaud.
This is... [More...]
Jean Cocteau’s final film is a fitting conclusion to a remarkable artistic career
spanning over fifty years. The film manages to encompass all aspects of Cocteau’s
creative genius and it is perhaps the best... [More...]
Shortly after completing work on Jules et Jim, François Truffaut was commissioned
by the producer Pierre Roustang to contribute a short film segment to his anthology L’Amour
à vingt ans... [More...]
If there had to be just one word to sum up Alphaville¸that word would have
to be weird. It is a film that constantly challenges our preconceptions... [More...]
Although it was originally conceived as a modest, low budget homage to
the American gangster film, Pierrot
le fou quickly earned a reputation as one of the most important
films in French cinema and today is regarded... [More...]
Having pretty well deconstructed the American crime thriller in Pierrot
le fou, Jean-Luc Godard goes even further with his next
policier outing, driving the genre to its absolute limits of
abstraction and... [More...]
This is another exquisitely funny and very stylish piece of cinema from one of France’s
greatest directors, Jean-Luc Godard. It is also significant in that it is the first
of Godard’s films in which the director... [More...]
True fans of the director Jean-Luc Godard broadly divide into two
categories: those who say that his career ended with La Chinoise; and those who insist
(with an evil glint in their eyes) that this film marked the start... [More...]
A film lost in the cosmos and A film found on the scrap-heap are
the opening captions to what would be Jean-Luc Godard’s most virulent
assault on contemporary French society... [More...]
Six years after Antoine Doinel appeared in the Antoine et Colette segment of the
compendium film L’Amour à vingt ans, François Truffaut
felt the time was right to resurrect his famous alter ego... [More...]
The film that marked Jean-Luc Godard’s definitive break with mainstream cinema in the
1960s and defined his future direction for the next decade and beyond was this daring
experimental work... [More...]
Domicile conjugal is the fourth, and arguably the most humorous, installment in
François Truffaut’s semi-autobiographical Antoine Doinel cycle of films... [More...]
This is one of Truffaut’s most intense and sombre films about romantic love. He
made the film a short while after actress Catherine Deneuve put an end to their two-year
long love affair... [More...]
Out 1 is like a more
avant-garde Thomas Pynchon, or Honoré de Balzac on drugs. A true
piece of art, it’s unpredictable, a darkly epic tragedy one moment... [More...]
