Although it lacks sparkle and originality, this down-to-earth comedy drama offers an amusing
and fairly convincing portrait of two young people coming to terms with their adult responsibilities... [More...]
Two years before he created a sensation at the 1995 Cannes film festival with
La Haine, a controversial film about racial
tension in the housing estates of Paris... [More...]
Regarde les hommes tomber is a deliciously dark study in obsession and survival,
a good example of modern French film noir. Jean Yanne’s portrayal of Hirsch is both
disturbing and sympathetic and Jean-Louis Trintignant... [More...]
The 1990s was a good decade for French cinema, with some great internationally acclaimed
successes and booming box office receipts in France. But there is one film that
stands out above all others for its impact... [More...]
Once more, director Bertrand Blier courts controversy and the wrath of the entire feminist
movement with this anarchic black comedy. With tongue welded firmly to cheek... [More...]
This film has a great deal to commend it. Jacques Audiard’s direction is confident
and mature (impressive for a second film), and the photography is exceptional throughout... [More...]
This is a film that plays on Mathieu Kassovitz’s strengths as both an actor and a director.
As an actor, he is well-suited to play the half-hearted... [More...]
Having established himself as a world class director through his films The Big Blue,
Nikita and Léon, French director Luc Besson took on his most ambitious
project to date and created a film which quickly became... [More...]
Mathieu Kassovitz’s first venture into the big budget genre film is a bold attempt to
beat the Americans at their own game – a fast-moving... [More...]
Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain was the film which defined French cinema
across the world in the year 2001. Not only was it the most successful film made
in France that year... [More...]
Amen continues Costa-Gavras’ cycle of provocative
political dramas which began in 1969 with his Oscar-winning film
Z and which continues to arouse controversy... [More...]
After the comparative disappointment of the first live action Asterix film – Astérix
et Obélix contre César (1999) – virtually no one was prepared for
the phenomenon Astérix &... [More...]
