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French Film Festival

7 November – 16 December 2018

The 26th edition of the French Film Festival UK will run at venues up and down the country between November 7 and December 16.

Among the highlights are Gilles Lellouche's Sink Or Swim and classics including Cyrano De Bergerac and La Grand Illusion.

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  • The Lady In The Portrait
    Review preview for The Lady In The Portrait

    This is an intelligent, sumptuous period piece, shining an intriguing light into the corners of the 18th-century Imperial Court of China.

    Jane Fae · 3.5 out of 5
    An empress commissions a painting of herself from a French outsider and Jesuit priest in hopes of stirring her husband's interest in this lavish period piece.
  • Sauvage
    Review preview for Sauvage

    Showing a keen understanding of the nature of sex work and of life on the streets, Vidal-Naquet carries us through several days in Léo's life in a observational, non-judgemental way.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A young male sex worker searches for love and companionship.
  • Woman Up!
    Review preview for Woman Up!

    There's a certain degree of decompression in its storytelling, and a willingness to jump in time and space, and though the two are strong there's a weird sense that these are the highlights and story beats of a much longer television drama.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    An ambitious woman treads a dangerous path as she attempts to crash the corporate boys’ club.
  • Mrs Hyde
    Review preview for Mrs Hyde

    Although we alight at many points of interest throughout the journey, we never stop long enough anywhere to explore.

    Jane Fae · 3.5 out of 5
    After a teacher is struck by lightning, she discovers a powerful and dangerous alter ego.
  • Sink Or Swim
    Review preview for Sink Or Swim

    The training sessions begin to pall - for the audience as much for the participants - but once the action moves to Norway, the pace and the scenery pick up considerably.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    A comedy drama about a male synchronised swimming team.
  • The Image Book
    Review preview for The Image Book

    Elusively impenetrable stuff that only loosely can be described as cinema.

    Richard Mowe · 1 out of 5
    Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song. A story in five chapters like the five fingers of a hand.
  • Sorry Angel
    Review preview for Sorry Angel

    Honoré handles the strands with considerable agility and admirable lack of cliché or sentimentality employing camerawork that is clean and uncluttered.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    Two gay men struggle with love in the shadow of mortality.
  • The Graduation
    Review preview for The Graduation

    The film shimmers and provokes where it is least expected.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    A documentary about selection procedures at cinema school La Fémis in Paris.
  • La Grande Illusion
    Review preview for La Grande Illusion

    The script sears like a whip-crack, with one-liners peppering the action, yet never getting in the way of the film’s emotional depth.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    French prisoners in the First World War plot a series of escapes. Currently out to own as part of the seven-disc Jean Renoir Collection.
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
    Review preview for Cyrano de Bergerac

    Jean-Paul Rappeneau has taken the spirit of Edmond Rostand's play and filled it to overflowing with energy, rumbustiousness, eloquence and panache.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Superior retelling - in verse - of the classic romance.

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