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French and French-language Films

French and French-language Films

Hidden: a film about guilt, trust, colonial exploitation and manipulation of signs is overburdened by art and cleverness

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Michael Haneke, “Caché / Hidden” (2005) An imaginative if overly layered thriller about a couple threatened by an unseen and unknown stalker, Michael Haneke’s “Hidden” is…

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French and French-language Films

Nathalie: lightweight psychology piece touches on double standards of modern capitalist society and its effects on people

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Anne Fontaine with Wladimir Yordanoff, “Nathalie” (2003) Trust the French to do upper middle class feminist angst with a dash of secret lesbian desire like no-one…

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Thérèse Desqueyroux (dir. Claude Miller): straight story-telling narrative turns psychological study into mere historical soap drama

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Claude Miller, “Thérèse Desqueyroux” (2012) Claude Miller’s swansong film is a historical drama piece starring Audrey Tautou in the eponymous role occupied by Emmanuelle Riva in…

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