The films of
Michel Duchaussoy
La Femme infidèle (1969)
Claude Chabrol  		  Que la bête meure (1969)
Claude Chabrol  		  La Rupture (1970)
Claude Chabrol 		 
     
Few films exemplify Chabrol’s cinema better and more fully than La Femme infidèle . The bourgeois setting, the dangerously repressed characters...  [More...]   This compelling study of revenge and hate is easily one of Chabrol’s better films. Throughout, Chabrol is in perfect control of the drama and suspense...  [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 (1971)
Claude Chabrol 		  Le Retour du grand blond (1974)
Yves Robert 		  Nada (1974)
Claude Chabrol 		 
     
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...]   After the enormous success of Le Grand blond avec une chaussure noire (1972), director Yves Robert and screenwriter Francis Veber would have been mad not to have made a sequel...  [More...]   Coming towards the end of Claude Chabrol’s second gold run of films, which ran from the late 1960s to the mid 1970s, Nada stands out as something of an oddity...  [More...]  
L'Important c'est d'aimer (1975)
Andrzej Zulawski 		  Fort Saganne (1984)
Alain Corneau 		  La Vie et rien d'autre (1989)
Bertrand Tavernier 		 
     
Love hurts, and this film goes further than most in illustrating the point. Zulawski’s style of film making, with its iron-fisted realism and colour-rich photography...  [More...]   At the time, Fort Saganne was the most expensive film to have been made in France. A three hour long epic, with an star-studded cast – headed by living icons Gerard Dépardieu and Catherine Deneuve...  [More...]   This is a powerful film with a genuinely epic feel. The backdrop is movingly sombre, with sets scattered with the last remains of soldiers, some hastily dug graves...  [More...]  
Milou en mai (1990)
Louis Malle 		  La Veuve de Saint-Pierre (2000)
Patrice Leconte 		  Les Portes de la gloire (2001)
Christian Merret-Palmair 		 
     
Whilst not as imposing as some of his earlier films, Milou en Mai is a popular Louis Malle film, having a feeling of warmth and humanity which is not so visible in those films. This is a light satire on bourgeois society...  [More...]   Patrice Leconte’s most ambitious film to date is this haunting period drama which contrasts the simple humanity of a prison captain’s wife with the brutality of the French legal system on an outpost of the...  [More...]   Christian Merret-Palmair’s first full length film, Les Portes de la gloire is a bizarre black comedy that offers both a tragicomic depiction of mid-life crisis and an unusual variation on the road movie concept...  [More...]  
Amen. (2002)
Costa-Gavras 		  Confidences trop intimes (2004)
Patrice Leconte 		  La Demoiselle d'honneur (2004)
Claude Chabrol 		 
     
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 distinctly bizarre L’Homme du train (2002), director Patrice Leconte returns to more familiar territory with Confidences trop intimes...  [More...]   Once again, director Claude Chabrol takes us on a sinister exploration of the darker side of human nature in another of his taut psychological thrillers...  [More...]  

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