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New York's Rendez-Vous With French Cinema — A–Z of films

2026

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  • Alpha
    Review preview for Alpha

    Alpha exists in the intersection of the probable and the parable.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old, lives with her single mother. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
  • Case 137
    Review preview for Case 137

    It’s Drucker’s mesmerising performance that papers over the cracks.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    Stéphanie, a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. While she finds no evidence of illegitimate police violence, the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.
  • Colours of Time
    Review preview for Colours of Time

    There’s a fairy-tale element to this – and once the famous names start to be introduced, including Sarah Bernhardt, it becomes obvious it’s no history lesson – but that suits the crowdpleasing material well.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    After a group of distant relatives inherit a house, they begin to investigate the life of their predecessor.

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  • Enzo
    Review preview for Enzo

    Yet Pohu’s performance sums up all the conflicted feelings, desires and anxieties of someone at the crossroads of entering adulthood.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    A 16-year-old boy breaks out from his bourgeois family and starts an apprenticeship as a stonemason. He also meets a Ukrainian colleague who turns his world upside down.
  • The Girl In The Snow
    Review preview for The Girl In The Snow

    A handsome piece of cinematic work,

    Marko Stojiljkovic · 3 out of 5
    1899. On a stormy night, Aimée, a young Republican schoolteacher, arrives in a snowy hamlet on the edge of the Alps. Despite the mistrust of the inhabitants, she is determined to shed light on their dark beliefs. As she blends into the life of the community, a sensual vertigo grows within her.
  • The Great Arch
    Review preview for The Great Arch

    An absorbing account.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    1982. French President François Mitterrand decides to launch an international architectural competition for the flagship project of his mandate: the Great Arch of La Défense, aligned with the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe. Against all odds, Otto von Spreckelsen, a Danish architect, wins the competition...

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  • In A Whisper
    Review preview for In A Whisper

    What follows is not a simple coming-out narrative and not a whodunit either, but an internal struggle constantly externalised through ritual and space.

    Edin Custo · 3.5 out of 5
    Lilia returns to Tunisia for her uncle’s funeral and reunites with a family that knows nothing about her life in Paris, especially not about the woman she loves.
  • Love Me Tender
    Review preview for Love Me Tender

    Krieps operates at her usual level of greatness, and Anna Cazenave Cambet does her a favour by putting her in the spotlight.

    Marko Stojiljkovic · 3 out of 5
    One late summer, Clémence tells her ex-husband that she’s having romantic relationships with women. Her life is turned upside down when he takes custody of her son. Clémence must fight to remain a mother, a woman and a free woman.

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  • Nino
    Review preview for Nino

    Nino offers a glimpse into an ordinary, possibly unfulfilled life and the psyche of a contemporary man trying to reconfigure things in the wake of a challenge.

    Marko Stojiljkovic · 3.5 out of 5
    Seventy-two hours before Nino's chemotherapy, he must complete the two missions given to him by his doctor.

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  • The Stranger
    Review preview for The Stranger

    Ozon remains faithful to the source and keeps its sense of mystery but has strengthened the female characters

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    Adaptation of Camus' classic.

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  • The Wizard Of The Kremlin
    Review preview for The Wizard Of The Kremlin

    Dano has chosen to use the same flat vocal expression throughout, a technique well suited to satire which might have worked if only the rest of the film had been a bit more lively.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    Russia, early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, a brilliant young man, Vadim Baranov, charts his path. First an artist, then a reality show producer, he becomes the spin doctor to a rising KGB agent: Vladimir Putin.