Lady Oscar is a little known work directed by one of France’s most influential
film directors, Jacques Demy. It was commissioned by a Japenese production company
and is based on a hugely popular Japanese strip-cartoon... [More...]
The most popular of the six Gendarmes films, Le Gendarme et les extra-terrestres was
the biggest box office hit in France in 1979, attracting an impressive 6.2 million spectators... [More...]
Rendez-vous is a dark yet powerful examination of love and sexual desire from the
point of view of three emotionally scarred young people. It is stunningly photographed
and boasts some fine acting... [More...]
Best known for his memorable – and controversial – political thrillers of
the 1970s, Yves Boisset directed this pseudo-American thriller-cum-road-movie at a time
when many critics had written him off... [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...]
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...]
Sophie Fillières third and most unusual to date - after Grande petite (1994) and Aïe (2000) - feels like a
distinctly Gallic take on Bridget Jones... [More...]
Once more, Diane Kurys demonstrates that her best work is beyond her
and receding into the distance at an alarming rate. After the
disappointing Je reste! (2003) comes this
structureless compendium of clichés... [More...]
No prizes for spotting that the life and death of Diana Princess of
Wales was the main inspiration for this royal-themed send-up, the third
directorial offering from the multi-talented Valérie
Lemercier... [More...]
The master returns - not to cheer us, but to break our hearts.
Despite being comfortably into his ninth decade, Alain Resnais still
hasn’t lost the knack of making films that reward the eye... [More...]
