Gemma Bovery – Anne Fontaine
Fabrice Luchini (The Women on the 6th Floor, In the House) is one of France’s most versatile actors working in both film and theatre and moving from comedy to the Classics with consummate ease. His...
Judith Prescott , 28/09/2014 20:34
Hippocrate – Thomas Lilti
Thomas Lilti’s Hippocrate is a warts-and-all look at the life of a junior doctor starting his career as an intern in a Parisian hospital and it’s a damning portrait of what is often reputed to be t...
Judith Prescott , 26/09/2014 11:38
Maintenant ou Jamais – Serge Frydman
Serge Frydman’s Maintenant ou Jamais (Now or Never) is a love story disguised as a thriller with a touch of social commentary thrown in for good measure. While there’s plenty of heat between the tw...
Judith Prescott , 16/09/2014 11:35
SMS – Gabriel Julien-Laferrière
Gabriel Julien-Laferrière’s first outing as director with the 2009 tepid comedy Neuilly Sa Mère was a domestic box-office success. It’s taken him five years to return to the big screen with an adap...
Judith Prescott , 27/08/2014 10:44
Le Beau Monde – Julie Lopes-Curval
Le Beau Monde, Julie Lopes-Curval’s fourth outing as director, is a dreary coming-of-age film which casts the net wide in a bid to cover several issues only to fall on well-trodden ground. Her firs...
Judith Prescott , 18/08/2014 09:59
L’Ex de Ma Vie – Dorothée Sebbagh
L’Ex de Ma Vie is a flat, uninspired romantic comedy by Dorothée Sebbagh, a graduate of the prestigious Paris film school La Femis who, judging by her output to date, is struggling to hit winning f...
Judith Prescott , 14/07/2014 12:46