The films of
Mathieu Amalric
La Sentinelle (1992)
Arnaud Desplechin 		  Généalogies d'un crime (1997)
Raoul Ruiz 		  Alice et Martin (1998)
André Téchiné 		 
     
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...]  
Fin août, début septembre (1998)
Olivier Assayas 		  Adieu, plancher des vaches! (1999)
Otar Iosseliani 		  La Fausse suivante (2000)
Benoît Jacquot 		 
     
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...]  
Rois et reine (2004)
Arnaud Desplechin 		  J'ai vu tuer Ben Barka (2005)
Serge Le Péron 		  Le Grand appartement (2006)
Pascal Thomas 		 
     
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...]  
Quand j'étais chanteur (2006)
Xavier Giannoli 		  Un lever de rideau (2006)
François Ozon 		  Actrices (2007)
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi 		 
     
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...]    [More...]    [More...]  
La Question humaine (2007)
Nicolas Klotz 		  Le Scaphandre et le papillon (2007)
Julian Schnabel 		  Michou d'Auber (2007)
Thomas Gilou 		 
     
 [More...]   Le Scaphandre et le papillon is a film which, if it doesn’t radically change your view of life, will certainly leave a lasting impression. The film recounts...  [More...]   With its poignant story about a young Moslem boy gaining the acceptance and love of his French foster family in the early 1960s, Michou d’Auber ought to be a sure-fire hit that should have no difficulty moving its...  [More...]  

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