French and French-language Films
Les Biches: a coolly elegant and stylish film on obsessive love, the fragility of identity and class tensions
Claude Chabrol, “Les Biches / The Does” (1968) A beautifully elegant film of stylishness and
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
Claude Chabrol, “Les Biches / The Does” (1968) A beautifully elegant film of stylishness and
French and French-language Films
Louis Malle, “Le Voleur / The Thief of Paris” (1967) A crime comedy caper starring
French and French-language Films | Northern European Films
Carl Theodor Dreyer, “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928) In itself, this silent film
French and French-language Films | Middle Eastern Films
Ari Folman, “The Congress” (2013) Partly based on Stanislaw Lem’s novel “The Futurological Congress”, in
French and French-language Films
Marcel Carné, “The Children of Paradise / Les Enfants du Paradis” (1945) Made under difficult
French and French-language Films
Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli, “Une Vie de Chat / A Cat in Paris” (2010)
French and French-language Films
Chris Marker, “Sans Soleil” (1983) Picture yourself receiving a letter from a long-time friend who
French and French-language Films
Luis Buñuel, “That Obscure Object of Desire” (1977) Between two full buckets of cold water
British Films | French and French-language Films
Christian Volckman, “Paris 2054: Renaissance” (2006) A glossy animated style of minimal black-and-white presentation, emphasising
French and French-language Films
Frédéric Doazan, “Supervenus” (2013) This 3-minute debut effort for writer / director Frédéric Doazan is a devastatingly