The crime thriller has been a popular target for parody in France ever since the heyday
of the genre in the 1950s. Whilst Cible émouvante is an entertaining
film with many plus points... [More...]
This film has a great deal to commend it. Jacques Audiard’s direction is confident
and mature (impressive for a second film), and the photography is exceptional throughout... [More...]
Philippe Harel both directs and stars in this quintessentially French portrait of existentialist
angst and bitter reflection on the meaningless of life... [More...]
A surprising mix of the conventional and the unexpected, Vénus beauté
(institut) is superficially a familiar modern day love story, centred around a middle-aged
woman who finally discovers true love after... [More...]
Coming hot on the heels, if not in the slipstream, of Philippe Harel’s
excellent Extension du domaine de la lutte
(1999), Le Vélo de Ghislain
Lambert is something of a let down... [More...]
Marion Vernoux’s fourth film is this joyful romantic comedy in which the chaotic love
lives of four disparate characters are woven – with the skill of a master craftsman –
into a colourful slice of life... [More...]
Claude Duty followed his successful musical film Filles
perdues, cheveux gras (2002) with this comparatively uninspired comedy-drama, the
latest in what seems like a deluge of “town to country / change of lifestyle”... [More...]
