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...]
Sadly underrated, Le Voleur is one of Louis Malle’s
most attractive films, an entertaining and beautifully crafted comedy which gleefully
satirises the attitudes of the nouveaux riches... [More...]
After the commercial failure of his big budget war-time drama
Paris brûle-t-il? (1966), director
René Clément returned to somewhat safer ground for his next film... [More...]
A classic of the French policier genre, Dernier domicile connu, is the
third film directed by José Giovanni, one that paints a sombre
and disturbing portrait of police methods and gangster activity in the
early... [More...]
La Decade prodigieuse is not the most well-oiled
of Claude Chabrol’s thrillers, and coming after such excellent examples of the genre as
Le
Boucher (1969) et
Que la bête meure (1969)... [More...]
Les Mariés de l’an II is typical of the ebullient and witty period drama
which French cinema has been consistently good at producing for many decades... [More...]
For his second full-length film, Maurice Pialat adapted his auto-biographical novel, casting
Jean Yanne to play him on the strength of their physical similarity... [More...]
La Guerre des polices is a
fine example of the kind of hardboiled, gritty French thriller that
emerged in the late 1970s, following the trend for greater realism and
explicit violence that had been set by Hollywood filmmakers... [More...]
