Aime ton père is a film that wilfully blurs fiction and real-life experiences
in a typically French variant of the road movie. Writer-director Jacob Berger uses
his own experiences as the basis for the narrative... [More...]
In 1999, Amélie Nothomb published a novel entitled Stupeur
et tremblements, an account of her experiences whilst working for a Japanese mega-corporation... [More...]
A sombre and contemplative film, Les
Mots bleus offers a poignant depiction of three very different
people who are tormented by an inability to communicate with
others... [More...]
One of the most depressing trends in French cinema recently is the one
where relatively inexperienced film directors attempt to combine genres
which are manifestly incompatible... [More...]
As icons go, they don’t come much greater than Edith
Piaf. Over the course of a career that spanned thirty years, Piaf
rose from being an unknown Parisian cabaret performer to become one of
the most celebrated... [More...]
Anyone familiar with the life and work of the controversial writer
Françoise Sagan is unlikely to respond favourably to this
insipid portrait of her life... [More...]
