Most police films are geared around a strong central plot and often resort to extreme
violence or improbable scenarios to create interest value. Tavernier’s film L.627
is a police film... [More...]
L’Appât is Bertrand Tavernier’s
most disturbing film to date – a dark, pessimistic but believable reflection of
adolescent disaffection and moral vacuity... [More...]
Bertrand Tavernier won the Best Director César for this powerful and unusual wartime
drama in which he skilfully explores the psychological impact of war on young soldiers... [More...]
The poor are always with us and in this film Bertrand Tavernier reminds us that, even
in this age of unrivalled prosperity, that unfortunate adage is still true... [More...]
Patrice Leconte once more demonstrates his uncanny diversity as a filmmaker, eschewing
the pretty romanticism of his earlier romantic dramas for a darker... [More...]
Rightly or wrongly, Gérard Pirès is best known for
directing the first – and best – of the Luc Besson produced Taxi
films... [More...]
Le Grand Ennui would have been
a more accurate title. It is hard to find anything positive to
say about this cack-handed adaptation of Alain-Fournier’s great novel... [More...]
