What could easily have been a conventional drama about the pressures of modern living
is magnificently transformed into a multi-layered film which is both compelling and entertaining... [More...]
The relationship between times past and present is a recurrent theme in Alain Resnais’
cinema. Whereas his earlier films adopt an abstract, often bewildering... [More...]
Whilst not in the league of Resnais’ earlier cinematic achievements, L’Amour à
mort offers a solemn and unusual meditation on the relationship between love and death... [More...]
Mélo makes a striking contrast with Alain Resnais’ previous films in which,
by and large, narrative is either lacking altogether or else achieved in an astonishingly
original way... [More...]
After his monumental and hugely successful Cyrano
de Bergerec, director Jean-Paul Rappeneau attempted an even more lavish super-production
with his next film... [More...]
Based on a play by the eminent French film director Sacha Guitry (which was never
performed), this film offers some fascinating insights into one of the most enigmatic
and influential of French historical figures.
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On connaît la chanson marked Alain Resnais’ triumphal return to mainstream
French cinema in the late 1990s. The film, hugely popular in France... [More...]
Benoît Jacquot’s daring adaptation of Marivaux’s 18th Century play was not a great
commercial success but it makes an unusual, hugely original transposition of a stage work
to the big screen... [More...]
In this, the fourth film adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s celebrated novel Le Mystère
de la chambre jaune, director Bruno Podalydès offers a distinctly personal
slant on the familiar detective mystery... [More...]
How strange that one of the great innovators of French cinema, Alain Resnais, should spend
the twilight years of his career making musical comedies... [More...]
It’s hard to see how director Claude Berri could go wrong with a cast which includes five
of the most highly rated actors in French cinema, but goes wrong he most certainly does
in this banal... [More...]
The master returns - not to cheer us, but to break our hearts.
Despite being comfortably into his ninth decade, Alain Resnais still
hasn’t lost the knack of making films that reward the eye... [More...]
