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...]
Un singe en hiver is a gentle comedy which takes a melancholic view of friendship,
nostalgia and drink. It was based on a popular novel by the French writer Antoine
Blondin... [More...]
This run-of-the-mill drama marks the final chapter in the long-standing relationship between
director Gilles Grangier and actor Jean-Gabin. Beginning with
La Vierge du Rhin in 1953... [More...]
This stylish albeit pretty run-of-the-mill suspense thriller was the first film to be
directed by Claude Pinoteau, who is perhaps best known for his 1980s hit La Boum... [More...]
Monsieur Klein is an unusual variation on the theme of the police-gangster thriller
which was very much in vogue in France in the early 1970s. What marks this
film out as a cut above the rest is partly the film’s... [More...]
What could easily have been a run-of-the-mill psychological thriller actually turns out
to be a thoroughly compelling and beautifully filmed piece of cinema... [More...]
This bittersweet comedy makes a poignant statement about the importance of friendship
and family in an increasingly fragmented society. Beautifully filmed... [More...]
Je suis né d’une cigogne is both an insanely
anarchic portrait of adolescent rebellion and an ingenious parable of social exclusion
and immigration in an uncaring society... [More...]
This lightweight black comedy was inspired by a well-known 1951 film
La Poison, directed by Sacha Guitry and starring
Michel Simon. Whilst it may not be as satisfying as that earlier film... [More...]
With La Fleur du mal, a masterfully composed psychological drama, acclaimed director
Claude Chabrol revisits his favourite theme: murder within the bosom of the provincial
Bourgeoisie... [More...]
Once again, director Claude Chabrol takes us on a sinister exploration of the darker side
of human nature in another of his taut psychological thrillers... [More...]
Joyeux Noël, the second full-length film
from French director Christian Carion, is a stylised account of a true occurrence in World
War One – spontaneous outbreaks of fraternisation between soldiers on opposite... [More...]
