New York's Rendez-Vous With French Cinema · 2014
24 films · 8 reviews
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Sébastien Betbeder)
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Justine Triet ; Stars: Laetitia Dosch, Vincent Macaigne)
Peretti lets his violence resonate, keeping it mostly offscreen but letting it echo ominously in the animalistic tendencies of the teens.
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Thierry de Peretti; Writer: Benjamin Baroche, Thierry de Peretti; Stars: Aziz El Hadachi, François-Joseph Cullioli, Hamza Mezziani, Maryne Cayon, Joseph-Marie Ebrard)
Everyone is allowed to over-act, not least herself, who runs the gamut of wet-eyed self-pity to hysteria.
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi; Writer: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Noémie Lvovsky, Noémie Lvovsky, Agnès de Sacy; Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Louis Garrel, Filippo Timi, Marisa Borini, Xavier Beauvois, Céline Sallette, Andre Wilms, Marie Riviere, Gerard Falce, Pippo Delbono, Silvio Orlando, Omar Sharif)
Campillo keeps the questions coming.
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Robin Campillo; Writer: Robin Campillo; Stars: Olivier Rabourdin, Kirill Emelyanov, Daniil Vorobyov, Edéa Darcque, Camila Chanirova, Beka Markozashvili, Bislan Yakhiaev, Mohamed Doukouzov, Aitor Bourgade)
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Ruben Alves; Stars: Rita Blanco, Joaquim de Almeida, Roland Giraud)
Nicole Garcia has a loose-limbed almost casual approach to directing, her easy way with actors drawing you in to this emotionally complex tale of loneliness and connection.
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Nicole Garcia; Writer: Jacques Fieschi, Nicole Garcia; Stars: Pierre Rochefort, Louise Bourgoin, Dominique Sanda, Déborah François, Eric Ruf, Benjamin Lavernhe, Mathias Brezot, Olivier Loustau, Vanessa Liautey, Jean-Pierre Martins, Juliette Roux-Merveille, Emmanuelle Reymond, José Cidolit, Michel Bompoil, Laurence Roy)
Although the actors acquit themselves with some distinction the performances cannot quite disguise the one dimensional aspect of the characters.
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Rebecca Zlotowski; Writer: Gaëlle Macé, Rebecca Zlotowski; Stars: Léa Seydoux, Tahar Rahim, Denis Ménochet)
(Country: France, India, Belgium; Year: 2014; Director: Michel Spinosa; Writer: Agnès de Sacy, Michel Spinosa; Stars: Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Janagi, Mahesh, Laguparan, Corentin Lobet, Nirupama Nityanandan, David Quertigniez, Janakiraman Jayakumar, S.S. Kalai Raani, Murugan Perasamy, Anaël Snoek, Ishaan Azad, Chandra, Durga)
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Sophie Fillières; Writer: Sophie Fillières; Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Joséphine de La Baume, Emmanuelle Devos)
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Jacques Doillon; Stars: Sara Forestier, James Thiérrée)
(Year: 2013; Director: Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu; Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Maïwenn, Karin Viard)
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2013; Director: Nabil Ben Yadir; Writer: Nabil Ben Yadir, Romain Compingt, Ahmed Hamidi, Mohamed Hamidi, Nadia Lakhdar; Stars: Olivier Gourmet, Tewfik Jallab, Vincent Rottiers, M'Barek Belkouk, Nader Boussandel, Lubna Azabal, Hafsia Herzi, Charlotte Le Bon, Philippe Nahon, Jamel Debbouze, Malik Zidi, Simon Abkarian, Corinne Masiero, Rufus, Benjamin Lavernhe)
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Axelle Ropert; Writer: Axelle Ropert; Stars: Cédric Kahn, Laurent Stocker, Louise Bourgoin, Paula Denis, Serge Bozon, Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus, Camille Cayol, Jean-Pierre Petit, Alexandre Wu, Chloé Esdraffo, Kea Kaing, Nusch Batut, Zéphir Batut, Paul Bozon, Laurent Mothe)
The overkill threatens to bludgeon the much-loved book into an over-wrought exercise in style.
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2013; Director: Michel Gondry; Writer: Luc Bossi, based on the novel by Boris Vian; Stars: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Omar Sy, Michel Gondry)
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Emmanuelle Bercot; Writer: Emmanuelle Bercot, Jérôme Tonnerre; Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Camille, Mylène Demongeot)
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Jean-Paul Salomé; Stars: François Damiens, Geraldine Nakache, Lucien Jean-Baptiste)
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Bertrand Tavernier; Writer: Christophe Blain, Abel Lanzac; Stars: Thierry Lhermitte, Joséphine de La Baume, Jane Birkin, Niels Arestrup, Anaïs Demoustier, Raphaël Personnaz, Alix Poisson, Julie Gayet, Sonia Rolland, Thomas Chabrol, Thierry Frémont, Didier Bezace, Yvonne Gradelet, Loïc Risser, Bruno Raffaelli)
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Julie Bertuccelli )
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Katell Quillévéré; Stars: Sara Forestier, Adèle Haenel, François Damiens)
(Country: Luxembourg, France, Belgium; Year: 2013; Director: Serge Bozon; Writer: Odile Barski, Serge Bozon, Axelle Ropert; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Samy Naceri, François Damiens, Sandrine Kiberlain)
Brac films the small town in great detail, capturing its claustrophobia, and the sometimes tragic destinies of his protagonists.
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Guillaume Brac; Writer: Guillaume Brac, Hélène Ruault; Stars: Vincent Macaigne, Solène Rigot, Bernard Menez)
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Agnès Jaoui; Writer: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui; Stars: Agathe Bonitzer, Agnès Jaoui, Arthur Dupont, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Benjamin Biolay, Dominique Valadié, Valérie Crouzet, Beatrice Rosen, Didier Sandre, Laurent Poitrenaux, Nina Meurisse, Clément Roussier, Serena Legeais, Bonny Durand, Candela Cottis)
Keeps holding out a promise of insight into its young protagonist's mentality and makeup, but ends up merely observing her from a cool distance, as if through the binoculars from the opening scene.
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: François Ozon; Writer: François Ozon; Stars: Marine Vacth, Géraldine Palhas, Frédéric Pierrot, Fantan Ravat, Johan Leysen, Charlotte Rampling, Nathalie Richard, Djedje Apali, Lucas Prisor, Laurent Delbecque, Jeanne Ruff )
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