The films of
Monica Bellucci
L'Appartement (1996)
Gilles Mimouni 		  Dobermann (1997)
Jan Kounen 		  Le Pacte des loups (2001)
Christophe Gans 		 
     
L’Appartement is the remarkable debut film from director Gilles Mimouni, an extraordinary, almost unique blend of thriller and romantic comedy which constantly has the spectator hooked and surprised...  [More...]   With his first full length film, director Dutch Jan Kounen set out to shock, and with Dobermann he manages to achieve just that. This is 100 minutes of non-stop comic-book violence...  [More...]   Given that monster movies and fantasy/horror films have (nearly) always managed to garner popular success, it is somewhat odd that France’s most celebrated true-life horror story hasn’t already made it into...  [More...]  
Irréversible (2002)
Gaspar Noé 		  Astérix et Obélix Mission Cléopâtre (2002)
Alain Chabat 		  Agents secrets (2004)
Frédéric Schoendoerffer 		 
     
With his extreme nihilistic debut shocker Seul contre tous (1998), Argentinean born director Gaspar Noé was both reviled and praised in almost equal measure for his outrageously provocative approach to filmmaking...  [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...]    [More...]  
Combien tu m'aimes? (2005)
Bertrand Blier 		  Le Deuxième souffle (2007)
Alain Corneau 		  Ne te retourne pas (2009)
Marina de Van 		 
     
For over three decades, French filmmaker Bertrand Blier has been taunting, pleasing and surprising cinema audiences (in roughly equal measure) with his provocative...  [More...]    [More...]    [More...]