This lightweight Chabrolian country drama from François Ozon sees an elderly retiree with a complex past trying to do right by her family.
The opening film of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival offers a limp metafictional critique of the modern film industry.
By Mark Asch
Ladj Ly’s follow-up to his Cesar award-winning Les Misérables is a hyperbolic state-of-the-nation address that lacks the logic and fire of that first feature.
French provocateur Catherine Breillat returns with strange film about a transgressive sexual relationship between a middle-aged lawyer and her teenage stepson.
Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel play late 19th century gourmands in Tran Ahn Hung’s scintillating epic of proto-foodie passions.
Sprawling and poetic French period drama powered by an understated chemistry between Anaïs Demoustier and Vincent Lacoste.
In memory of one of cinema’s most formidable and pathfinding talents, who has died at the age of 91.
Debut director Julie Lerat-Gersant offers up a vivid character study of a pregnant teen who’s adamant to give up her baby.
This aimless and thin family portrait set in ’80s Paris is boosted by an affecting turn from Charlotte Gainsbourg.
The latest from French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie is an eccentric urban farce combining true love and terrorism.
Audrey Divan’s lacerating and necessary drama follows a young student seeking a clandestine abortion in 1960s France.
Arnaud Desplechin judiciously adapts Philip Roth’s verbose 1990 novel about an adulterous author.
Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi explore sexual agency, trauma and the power of female friendship in this controversial 2000 thriller.
By Adam Scovell
The Parisian town of Joinville provides the backdrop to the French director’s 1958 masterpiece.
By Adam Scovell
The decade following the Nouvelle Vague saw the emergence of progressive filmmakers like Chantal Akerman and Maurice Pialat.
By Ella Kemp
Camille Vidal-Naquet’s impressive debut feature is infused with skin-prickling energy.
Writer Robin Campillo and director Laurent Cantet team up for this slight exercise in social commentary.
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