La Métamorphose des cloportes is a typically
French comedy policier of the kind that was very popular in the mid-1960s. After
the success of Georges Lautner’s 1963 film
Les Tontons flingueurs... [More...]
Whilst much of the last decade of Jean Gabin’s career is generally pretty lacklustre
there are a few films in which the actor distinguishes himself with some pretty remarkable
performances... [More...]
Simone Signoret and Alain Delon – two of the most celebrated actors in French cinema –
are brought together in this unsettling melodrama... [More...]
This poignant film portrays the remnants of a long dead relationship visibly disintegrating
alongside the debris of a faded, long past society. One of the most brutal films
about married life ever made in France... [More...]
In this unusual and distinctive dramatic thriller popular actor Yves Montand is perfectly
cast as the suave gangster boss who is compelled to confront his past and his own mortality... [More...]
Voir ou revoir un film qui date d’il y a 30 ou 40 ans, c’est avant tout
vérifier s’il "accuse son âge" – s’il n’est pas
complètement démodé ou dépassé... [More...]
This French police drama focuses mainly on the politics of the police department and the
often dubious relationship between police, criminals and politicians... [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...]
Pierre Granier-Deferre directs this unusual mix of melodrama and psychological thriller,
his fourth adaptation of a work by the great Belgian crime novelist Georges Simenon... [More...]
