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
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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
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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...]
For over three decades, French filmmaker Bertrand
Blier has been taunting, pleasing and surprising cinema audiences (in
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