Avant-garde director Arnaud Desplechin followed his acclaimed short film La
Vie des morts with this remarkable and very distinctive psychological thriller... [More...]
From its opening credits, in which the elfin Jeanne Balibar cruises around Paris astride
a moped, accompanied by a song from the legendary Joe Dassin... [More...]
Despite its apparent simplicity, Fin août, début septembre is a profound
and intelligent film, confirming its director, Olivier Assayas... [More...]
The first years of the new millenium have marked something of a revival for the French
New Wave, with Nouvelle Vague directors Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette
all releasing major works which achieved both... [More...]
Christophe Honoré had distinguished himself as a writer in France – of children’s
books, adult fiction and screenplays – before directing this... [More...]
There is a cold mortuary feel to this sombre portrayal of an impossible
love affair involving a coquettish noblewoman and a soldier set in the
early part of the Nineteenth Century... [More...]
Anyone familiar with the life and work of the controversial writer
Françoise Sagan is unlikely to respond favourably to this
insipid portrait of her life... [More...]
