This compelling portrait of St Vincent de Paul, a strikingly humanist work, features Pierre
Fresnay in arguably his best film performance. The film has the distinction
of being the first French language film to win an... [More...]
Jean Grémillon’s adaptation of Jean Anouilh’s stage play gives the director another
opportunity to combine the themes of tragic romance and anti-Bourgeois sentiment which
predominate in his work... [More...]
This beguiling adaptation of Roger Peyrefitte’s controversial gay-themed novel was directed
by Jean Delannoy, one of the most accomplished and versatile of French filmmakers of his
day... [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...]
More a divertissement than a bon cru, La Route de Corinthe is one of
Claude Chabrol’s less successful attempts at a parody of the spy
thriller... [More...]
The film in which French New Wave director François Truffaut shows most clearly
his love of American pulp fiction and the suspense-thriller genre is very probably La
Sirène du Mississippi... [More...]
Few films exemplify Chabrol’s cinema better and more fully than La Femme infidèle
. The bourgeois setting, the dangerously repressed characters... [More...]
Borsalino, one of the most lavish French thrillers
of the 1970s, sees rival actors Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon (at the time, the two
most popular actors in France) sharing the limelight... [More...]
Judging by the end result, hallucinogenic drugs probably had a part to
play with the conception and realisation of La Rupture, one of Claude Chabrol’s
weirder films... [More...]
Juste avant la nuit is another meticulously crafted psychological drama from Claude
Chabrol. It is one of his darkest, most introspective works, one which explores a recurring
theme in his cinema: the all-consuming need... [More...]
This polished political thriller earned critical acclaim for director Yves Boisset and
stands as one of his best films, in spite of its complex plot and ambiguous political
context... [More...]
Deux hommes dans la ville features the third – and arguably the most effective
– pairing of two of French cinema’s most iconic of icons... [More...]
