One of the weaker films which Coluche made in his brief but often dazzling film career,
Banzai has a few exceptionally funny visual jokes but is overall a pretty mediocre
offering... [More...]
Gérard Jugnot’s engaging performance brings a genuine human dimension to what would
otherwise have been a pretty routine heist movie. Jugnot is perhaps better known
for his ebullient comic performances... [More...]
La Baule-les-Pins is the third
in a loose trilogy of semi-autobiographical films in which director
Diane Kurys draws on her experiences of childhood and
adolescence... [More...]
For his fourth film as a director, Gérard Jugnot chose a subject which has become
one of the most important social issues of our time – that of homelessness... [More...]
Tirelessly funny yet very truthful in its portrayal of human relationships and some important
social themes, La Crise is a worthy successor
to Coline Serreau’s previous cinematic successes... [More...]
There are not many film makers who can use a tough social drama as the basis for a fast-moving
light-hearted comedy, but Pierre Jolivet manages just that with Ma
petite entreprise... [More...]
How can any director make a film about Alzheimer’s disease without falling prey to tired
clichés or heavy sentimentality? What hope is there in this subject to attract
... [More...]
The subject of Un monde presque paisible is perhaps the most worthy that director
Michel Deville has tackled to date – a portrait of a small Jewish community struggling
to live with the aftershock of the Holocaust... [More...]
Zabou Breitman offers a poignant and intensely evocative portrait of a
love lost but not forgotten in this compelling drama, a film
that allows Daniel Auteuil to give his most sensitive performance in years... [More...]
