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Category: French and French-language Films

Reviews of films from France and French-language films from Belgium and Switzerland. At this stage, I’m not sure if there’ll be many French-language films from African and other countries coming within my orbit – probably I’ll create a separate category for them and call it French-language Films from outside Europe, or something hopefully more succinct and graceful!

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The Substance: devastating satirical critique of Western culture’s obsession with surface appearances and material worth

Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance” (2024) It may be called “The Substance” but this film’s style

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French and French-language Films | Northern European Films

Complètement cramé! – feel-good comedy on the importance of hope and helping others as a way of helping oneself

Gilles Legardinnier, “Complètement cramé! / Mr Blake at your service!” (2023) It’s twee and artificial

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French and French-language Films

Bernadette: fluffy satirical comedy saved by good actors

Léa Domenach, “Bernadette” (2023) Any time Catherine Deneuve takes on a film role is reason

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French and French-language Films | Northern European Films

A Silence: control, complicity, denial and manipulation in a psychological family drama

Joachim Lafosse, “A Silence” (2024) Smooth, sober and straightforward in its minimal style, this Belgian

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French and French-language Films

Anatomie d’une chute: life imitating art and becoming faction in courtroom drama

Justine Triet, “Anatomie d’une chute” / “Anatomy of a Fall” (2023) In “Anatomie d’une chute”,

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French and French-language Films

Mon Crime: screwball comedy is a sly satire on male privilege and how societies deal with uncomfortable issues and truth

François Ozon, “Mon Crime / The Crime is Mine” (2023) On the surface, “Mon Crime”

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French and French-language Films

Un Beau Matin: a realist meditation on mortality, memory, loss and the love and beauty that endure

Mia Hansen-Løve, “Un Beau Matin” / “One Fine Morning” (2022) One fine morning in Paris

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French and French-language Films

Saint Omer: dry legal drama on dysfunctional parent-child relationships and the struggles of migrants in an alien culture

Alice Diop, “Saint Omer” (2022) At first presenting as a dry courtroom drama cum psychological

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Eastern European Films | French and French-language Films | Italian and Italian-language Films

EO: a donkey’s odyssey through the kindness (or not) of strangers

Jerzy Skolimowski, “EO” (2022) Inspired by Robert Bresson’s 1966 film “Au hasard Balthazar”, this Polish

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French and French-language Films

L’Innocent: romantic comedy / heist plot of the extremes people will risk for love

Louis Garrel, “L’Innocent” (2022) A very clever comedy combining romance and a heist plot, “L’Innocent”

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