A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
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!
French and French-language Films
Cécile Guillard, Lana Choukroune, Yijia Cao, “Out of Range” (2019) In the Gobelins animated universe, the most mundane incidents can give rise to major transformations in…
French and French-language Films
Vincent Chansard, “Pour la France” (2019) Set in Paris during the so-called La Semaine Sanglante (The Bloody Week) in May 1871, during which time the French…
French and French-language Films
Nicolas Capitaine, Celine Desoutter, Lucas Durkheim, Leni Marotte, “Hors Saison / Out of Season” (2017) Few films can portray character and tell a story complete in…
French and French-language Films
Soham Chakraborty, Hanxu Chen, M Joffily, Justin Polley, Julie Trouve, “In Orbit” (2019) Similar to Gobelins’ 2018 release “Quand j’ai remplacé Camille” in its theme of…
French and French-language Films
Bruno Cohen, Germaine Colajanni, Rohan Deshchougule, Ronit Kelkar, Isabella Littger de Pinho, Diego Porral, Yujia Wang, “Blind Eye” (2019) After seeing Muhammad Houhou’s 2018-released short”Ostrich Politic”,…
French and French-language Films
Florencia Atra, Leonard Hicks, Man Luo, Claire Matz, Luana Nguyen, Marine Petri, “Oasis” (2019) Compared to other Gobelins animated shorts I have seen so far, the…
French and French-language Films
Han Yang, Basil Malek, “The Tree” (2018) Almost completely silent save for ambient background sound effects, this deeply moving animated short about an elderly man living…
French and French-language Films
Pierre-Marie Adnet, Jean-Luc Dessertaine, Guillaume Pochez, Tristan Poulain, Vincent Rouziere, Alessandro Vergonnier, “Souffle-court” (2018) In this 5-minute short film, a young teenage supercross rider Tom is…
French and French-language Films
Mohammad Houhou, “Ostrich Politic” (2018) What struck me most about this film is its encapsulation of the allegory of Plato’s Cave in which society is convinced…
Chinese and Chinese-language Films, French and French-language Films
Ellis Ka-yin Chan, Tena van der Galovic, Zozo Jhen, Yen-chen Liu, Marine Varguy, “A Gong (Grandpa)” (2018) A tale of a small Taiwanese boy attending his…