This sumptuous historical romantic melodrama afforded Alain Delon his first major acting
role in what was to become an extraordinarily successful film career... [More...]
One of the lesser works from Hungarian filmmaker Géza von
Radványi, Ein Engel auf Erden
is an absurd fantasy comedy that is memorable only for its cast... [More...]
Although less well known than his contemporaries, Alain Cavalier was a contributor to
the French New Wave of the early 1960s. A prime example of this is his first full-length
film... [More...]
Despite all the bad press it has received, Orson Welles’ Le Procès (a.k.a.
The Trial) is one of the great cinematrographic achievments of the Twentieth Century... [More...]
A former real-life couple Alain Delon and Romy Schneider are re-united on screen in this
compelling psychological drama, one of Jacques Deray’s best-known films... [More...]
Although the subject matter of this film is a tad on the soppy side for a quality French
romantic drama, the way in which the film is shot and constructed manages to overcome
this apparent flaw... [More...]
In both content and style, Max et les ferrailleurs makes a striking contrast with
Claude Sautet’s previous film – the dreamlike, emotionally charged and poetic Les
Choses de la vie (1969)... [More...]
With its memorable dream-like photography and impassioned acting performances, César
et Rosalie – quite possibly Claude Sautet’s best film... [More...]
This heavy historic drama is largely disappointing, in spite of the formidable cast.
The main reason why the film just fails to gel is the language barrier which lead actors
Delon and Schneider singularly fail to overcome... [More...]
This deliciously dark black comedy was one of Michel Deville’s most popular films, an
amusing yet disturbingly plausible portrait of the exploits of a guilt-free social climber... [More...]
Francis Girod made his directoral début with one of the most controversial French
films of the 1970s – an eccentric yet supremely stylish black comedy in which two of the
best-loved actors of the time... [More...]
