Avant-garde director Arnaud Desplechin followed his acclaimed short film La
Vie des morts with this remarkable and very distinctive psychological thriller... [More...]
This stylish psychological thriller is avant-garde director Raoul Ruiz’s most accessible
film to date. In spite of that, it contains all of the artistic flourishes which
has earned Ruiz a reputation as one of the... [More...]
As in his earlier film Les Voleurs, Techiné uses the trick of telling part
of the story out of sequence – in this case to reveal Martin’s terrible secret... [More...]
Despite its apparent simplicity, Fin août, début septembre is a profound
and intelligent film, confirming its director, Olivier Assayas... [More...]
Winner of the coveted Prix Louis Delluc in 1999, this uniquely whimsical comedy from Otar
Iosseliani offers an original slant on a familiar theme, the inability of human beings
to transcend their social milieu... [More...]
Benoît Jacquot’s daring adaptation of Marivaux’s 18th Century play was not a great
commercial success but it makes an unusual, hugely original transposition of a stage work
to the big screen... [More...]
If there is a French film that has caused more purple prose to be
splattered across film review pages than any other in recent years it
is Arnaud Desplechin’s latest flamboyant spectacle of self-indulgence
and... [More...]
It would be easy to dismiss J’ai vu tuer Ben Barka
as nothing more than a self-indulgent pastiche of 1960s French thriller. Anyone
familiar with this kind of film cannot help but notice the seemingly endless references
... [More...]
Not for the first time, some poor casting decisions and a
cliché-laden script ruin what had the potential to be a
respectable film. Pascal Thomas’ flair for writing and directing
sober... [More...]
With his third and best film to date, director Xavier Giannoli continues to
pick up plaudits from the critics and is fast gaining a reputation as
one of France’s most promising young filmmakers... [More...]
