New York's Rendez-Vous With French Cinema · 2013
21 films · 10 reviews
Augustine belongs to a family of movies that scrutinise the social construct of illness, not with a lecture but with a wayward glance.
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Alice Winocour; Writer: Alice Winocour; Stars: Vincent Lindon, Soko, Chiara Mastroianni, Olivier Rabourdin)
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Patrick Mille; Writer: Patrick Mille, Justine Lévy; Stars: Izia Higelin, Carole Bouquet, Arthur Dupont, Bob Geldof, Joana Preiss)
Complex and immersive, funny but with a sense of danger lurking in its darker moments, this is the sort of film that children and adults will watch to the end and then want to watch again.
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Jean-Christophe Dessaint; Writer: Amandine Taffin; Stars: Voices of Jean Reno, Isabelle Carré, Claude Chabrol, Lorànt Deutsch)
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau; Writer: Jean-Claude Brisseau; Stars: Virginie Legeay, Claude Morel, Jean-Claude Brisseau, Lise Bellynck)
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Bruno Podalydès; Writer: Bruno Podalydès, Denis Podalydès; Stars: Denis Podalydès, Valérie Lemercier, Isabelle Candelier, Catherine Hiegel, Michel Vuillermoz, Bruno Podalydès, Samir Guesmi, Pierre Arditi, Benoît Hamon, Emeline Bayart, Michel Robin, Judith Magre, Lola Arnaud-Lefebvre, Vimala Pons, Marta Rossi)
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Daniel Algrant; Writer: Daniel Algrant, David Brendel; Stars: Penn Badgley, Imogen Poots, William Sadler)
Ozon loves to let his audience's perceptions clash.
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: François Ozon; Writer: François Ozon, based on the play by Juan Mayorga; Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Denis Ménochet, Fabrice Luchini, Jean-François Balmer, Ernst Umhauer, Diana Stewart, Fabrice Colson, Stéphanie Campion, Bastien Ughetto)
Even viewers who have never cared much about show jumping, should be drawn in by how the movie deals with decision making, risk taking, self doubt, and family obligations
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Christian Duguay; Writer: Guillaume Canet; Stars: Guillaume Canet, Marina Hands, Daniel Auteuil, Lou de Laâge, Tchéky Karyo, Jacques Higelin, Marie Bunel, Joël Dupuch, Fred Epaud, Arnaud Henriet, Donald Sutherland, Antoine Cholet, Edmond Jonquères d'Oriola, Benoît Petitjean, Sébastien Cazorla)
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Raymond Depardon, Claudine Nougaret)
It's a slender film. A bit pale, like the light at the Baltic Sea, or a piece of ham that's been left on the plate too long.
(Country: France, Belgium, Estonia; Year: 2012; Director: Ilmar Raag; Writer: Agnès Feuvre, Lise Macheboeuf, Ilmar Raag; Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Laine Mägi, Patrick Pineau, François Beukelaers, Fred Epaud, Claudia Tagbo, Ita Ever, Helle Kuningas, Tõnu Mikiver, Helene Vannari, Ago Anderson, Yvonne Gradelet, Piret Kalda, Roland Laos, Corentin Lobet)
(Year: 2012; Director: Shalimar Preuss; Writer: Shalimar Preuss; Stars: Lou Aziosmanoff, Jocelyn Lagarrigue, Victor Laforge)
Pauline Etienne sweeps all before her as Suzanne Simonin, a nun who wants none of it.
(Country: France, Germany, Belgium; Year: 2013; Director: Guillaume Nicloux; Writer: Guillaume Nicloux, based on the book by Denis Diderot; Stars: Pauline Etienne, Isabelle Huppert, Louise Bourgoin, Martina Gedeck, Françoise Lebrun, Agathe Bonitzer, Alice de Lencquesaing, Gilles Cohen, Marc Barbé, François Négret, Lou Castel, Nicolas Jouhet, Pascal Bongard, Pierre Nisse, Fabrizio Rongione)
Populaire benefits from a savvy script with multi-layered humour and from superb work by its stars.
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Régis Roinsard; Writer: Régis Roinsard, Daniel Presley; Stars: Romain Duris, Déborah François, Bérénice Bejo, Shaun Benson, Mélanie Bernier, Nicolas Bedos, Miou-Miou)
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Damien Odoul; Writer: Damien Odoul; Stars: Marie-Eve Nadeau, Damien Odoul)
It might not be a Renoir, in either of the two historic senses, but it is an elegant and enjoyable drama filled with beauty, passion and a near sublime gentleness of spirit.
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Gilles Bourdos; Writer: Gilles Bourdos, Michel Spinosa, Jérôme Tonnerre; Stars: Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret, Vincent Rottiers, Thomas Doret, Michèle Gleizer, Romane Bohringer, Carlo Brandt, Hélène Babu, Stuart Seide, Paul Spera)
This is a film of two halves, with the half involving sweetness and light muddled and limp in comparison to its tougher, more sinister flipside, while the ending is almost unforgivably trite.
(Country: France, Canada, Belgium; Year: 2012; Director: Patrice Leconte; Writer: Patrice Leconte, based on the novel by Jean Teulé; Stars: Bernard Alane, Isabelle Spade, Kacey Mottet Klein, Isabelle Giami, Laurent Gendron, Pierre-François Martin-Laval, Eric Métayer, Jacques Mathou, Urbain Cancelier, Pascal Parmentier, Edouard Prettet, Jean-Paul Comart, Annick Alane, Juliette Poissonnier, Philippe du Janerand)
(Year: 2012; Director: Catherine Corsini; Writer: Catherine Corsini, Benoît Graffin; Stars: Clotilde Hesme, Raphaël Personnaz, Arta Dobroshi, Reda Kateb)
(Country: France; Year: 1962; Director: Georges Franju; Writer: Georges Franju, Claude Mauriac, François Mauriac, François Mauriac; Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Philippe Noiret, Edith Scob, Sami Frey, Renée Devillers, Jeanne Pérez, Hélène Dieudonné, Richard Saint-Bris, Jean-Jacques Rémy, Harry Vardier, Jacques Monod, Lucien Nat, Daniel Villattes)
Miller's stance may remain resolutely ambiguous but it's intriguing nonetheless.
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Claude Miller; Writer: Claude Miller, based on the book by François Mauriac.; Stars: Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Catherine Arditi, Stanley Weber)
(Year: 2012; Director: Jacques Doillon; Writer: Jacques Doillon; Stars: Lou Doillon, Samuel Benchetrit, Malik Zidi)
(Country: France; Year: 2011; Director: Gilles Legrand; Writer: Delphine de Vigan, Laure Gasparotto, Gilles Legrand; Stars: Niels Arestrup, Lorànt Deutsch, Patrick Chesnais, Anne Marivin, Nicolas Bridet, Valérie Mairesse, Jean-Marc Roulot, Urbain Cancelier, Xavier Robic, Nicolas Marié, Hélène de Saint-Père, Shirley Bousquet, Stéphane Roquet, Gilles Kassar, Luc Palun)
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