This light romantic comedy has the allure and feel of New Wave cinema but appears pretty
inconsequential besides the works of the masters such as Truffaut and Godard.
The film alternates between youthful exuberance... [More...]
Despite all the bad press it has received, Orson Welles’ Le Procès (a.k.a.
The Trial) is one of the great cinematrographic achievments of the Twentieth Century... [More...]
An exceptional cast elevates what might have been a routine run-around
comedy into an enjoyable romp with wide appeal. Somewhat
lighter and far less subversive than some of Jean-Pierre Mocky’s later
comedies... [More...]
By the time he came to make Paris
brûle-t-il?, René Clément was one of the most
highly regarded film directors in France. Two of his films had
won Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category... [More...]
In the mid-1950s, few film directors made a greater impression on the
controversial young critics on the French film review paper Les Cahiers du cinéma than a
certain Alfred Hitchcock... [More...]
Six years after Antoine Doinel appeared in the Antoine et Colette segment of the
compendium film L’Amour à vingt ans, François Truffaut
felt the time was right to resurrect his famous alter ego... [More...]
In this film, director Gilles Grangier attempts a happy marriage of the two genres that
most define his career: the popular comic farce and the classic French crime-thriller... [More...]
Jean-Pierre Mocky’s acerbic satire on the harmful influence of
television on children and society in general continues
to be as relevant forty years after the
film was first released... [More...]
Athough Edouard Molinaro’s first collaboration with Louis de Funès (Oscar
, 1967) had not been entirely amiable, the film director allowed himself to be
pursued by Gaumont to make a second film featuring... [More...]
This is a perceptive and moving – indeed provocative – film exploring a young teenage
boy’s sexual awakening. It captures the anxieties... [More...]
Marcel Carné’s penultimate fictional film is a superlative
example of the kind of gritty political thriller that would become
highly popular in France in the mid to late 1970s... [More...]
Out 1 is like a more
avant-garde Thomas Pynchon, or Honoré de Balzac on drugs. A true
piece of art, it’s unpredictable, a darkly epic tragedy one moment... [More...]
Following a line from his earlier film, La
Voie lactée (1969), Luis Buñuel gives free reign to his own phantom
of liberty in this highly entertaining satirical comedy... [More...]
Although not intended as a conventional historic drama, this film sheds some light on
the enigmatic yet comparatively unknown character of Stavisky... [More...]
Monsieur Klein is an unusual variation on the theme of the police-gangster thriller
which was very much in vogue in France in the early 1970s. What marks this
film out as a cut above the rest is partly the film’s... [More...]
