French and French-language Films
La Belle et La Bête: a visually sumptuous film both clear in its themes and ambiguous in its details
Jean Cocteau, “La Belle et La Bête” (1946) A beautiful and sumptuous film, this interpretation
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!
French and French-language Films
Black Moon: surreal film on death and rebirth that satirises political, cultural and social issues of 1970s
Louis Malle, “Black Moon” (1975) A curious film this is, based on Lewis Carroll’s “Alice
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The Yes Men Fix the World: taking down predatory global corporate fascism with hilarious pranks and comedy
Kurt Engfehr, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, “The Yes Men Fix the World” (2009) Well
French and French-language Films
Nathalie: lightweight psychology piece touches on double standards of modern capitalist society and its effects on people
Anne Fontaine with Wladimir Yordanoff, “Nathalie” (2003) Trust the French to do upper middle class
French and French-language Films
Thérèse Desqueyroux (dir. Claude Miller): straight story-telling narrative turns psychological study into mere historical soap drama
Claude Miller, “Thérèse Desqueyroux” (2012) Claude Miller’s swansong film is a historical drama piece starring
French and French-language Films
Augustine: period drama struggles under weighty issues of psychology, women’s sexuality and misogyny
Alice Winocour, “Augustine” (2012) In the early years of the twentieth century in France, the
French and French-language Films
Montparnasse: an affectionate survey of a famous artistic and intellectual Parisian district in the 1920s
Eugène Deslaw, “Montparnasse” (1929) Come take a tour of Montparnasse as it was in 1929
French and French-language Films
Elles: film fails to link prostitution in its various forms to a critique of Western materialist / capitalist society
Malgorzata Szumowska, “Elles” (2011) An interesting and layered film that appears to say whatever viewers
French and French-language Films
Un monsieur qui a mangé du taureau: slapstick comedy film short with a possible ulterior message
Eugène Deslaw, “Un monsieur qui a mangé du taureau” (1935) We all know of people
French and French-language Films
La Marche des Machines / Les Nuits Électriques: experimental shorts suggest technology has a life of its own
Eugène Deslaw, “La Marche des Machines” (1927) / Les Nuits Électriques” (1928) The Ukrainian film-maker Eugène