The films of
Nathalie Baye
La Nuit américaine (1973)
François Truffaut 		  La Gifle (1974)
Claude Pinoteau 		  Mado (1976)
Claude Sautet 		 
     
Probably the most entertaining film ever made about film making, La nuit amércaine was a triumph for film director François Truffaut. Not only is this a great film...  [More...]    [More...]   Another exquisitely composed portrait of mid-life crisis from Claude Sautet, Mado is an absorbing work which engages the spectator by solidly locking onto the personal traumas of its well-drawn characters...  [More...]  
L'Homme qui aimait les femmes (1977)
François Truffaut 		  La Communion solennelle (1977)
René Féret 		  La Chambre verte (1978)
François Truffaut 		 
     
Witty, incisive and masterfully narrated, L’Homme qui aimait les femmes is one of François Truffaut’s most entertaining films, but it is also one his most introspective and melancholic...  [More...]   This is a beautifully filmed kaleidoscope of memories, vividly depicting various periods in provincial France over the last 100 years. The sense of nostalgia is amplified by a heart-tugging song which adds narrative to...  [More...]   La Chambre verte is among the least widely known films in François Truiffaut’s impresive filmography, but is almost certainly his most personal film...  [More...]  
Une semaine de vacances (1980)
Bertrand Tavernier 		  Beau-père (1981)
Bertrand Blier 		  Une étrange affaire (1981)
Pierre Granier-Deferre 		 
     
Although not generally regarded as one of Bertrand Tavernier's most important works, Une semaine de vacances is an engaging drama that provides a sobering reflection on the difficulties faced by teachers at time when...  [More...]    [More...]   A strange film indeed. By adopting the style if not the substance of a traditional French thriller, this film explores the competing pressures of family and work in modern society...  [More...]  
La Balance (1982)
Bob Swaim 		  Le Retour de Martin Guerre (1982)
Daniel Vigne 		  Notre histoire (1984)
Bertrand Blier 		 
     
One of the best French crime thrillers of the 1980s, La Balance combines the familiar themes of the traditional film noir (running back forty years) with the modern action thriller...  [More...]   One of the better period dramas of the 1980s, this film is particularly noteworthy because of the exceptional performances of its too stars, Gérard Depardieu and Nathalie Baye. Despite the simplicity of its...  [More...]   In a similar vein to Blier’s splendidly surreal Buffet froid, Notre histoire takes conventional themes, such as bourgeois hypocrisy and obsessive love...  [More...]  
Rive droite, rive gauche (1984)
Philippe Labro 		  Détective (1985)
Jean-Luc Godard 		  La Baule-les-Pins (1990)
Diane Kurys 		 
     
Despite some racy music and some energetic, full-bodied cinematography (with some beautiful shots of Paris), this is a thriller that, somehow, just fails to miss its mark...  [More...]   In this film, Jean-Luc Godard takes a conventional detective thriller and manages to produce something quite original – although the end result is far from accessible. The film is loaded with Godard’s cinematographic...  [More...]   La Baule-les-Pins is the third in a loose trilogy of semi-autobiographical films in which director Diane Kurys draws on her experiences of childhood and adolescence...  [More...]  

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