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  • Beyond The Clouds (1995)
    Review preview for Beyond The Clouds

    Showcases the venerable maverick’s directorial style at is best and its worst.

    James Benefield · 3 out of 5
    Love, lust and naked women in a quartet of linked tales.
  • The Bride Wore Black (1968)
    Review preview for The Bride Wore Black

    A great story, however flawed.

    Chris · 3.5 out of 5
    New Wave brat scholar Tarantino swears blind this was not the inspiration for Kill Bill? You decide.
  • Dangerous Liaisons (1959)
    Review preview for Dangerous Liaisons

    The didactic attitudes to pleasure of the day are one of the reasons that Vadim’s original Dangerous Liaisons works better than in more modern interpretations.

    Chris · 3 out of 5
    Love and adultery... Who could resist!?
  • Diary Of A Chambermaid (1964)
    Review preview for Diary Of A Chambermaid

    It is Buñuel's acerbic vision of all that is wrong, in all layers of society, that is so chilling.

    Chris · 4 out of 5
    Dark comedy exposing the 1930s in thrall to fascism.
  • The Fire Within (1963)
    Review preview for The Fire Within

    Maurice Ronet gives a towering performance.

    Chris · 4.5 out of 5
    A suicidal man struggling to avoid sliding back into alcoholism visits former friends and lovers to say goodbye.
  • The Immortal Story (1968)
    Review preview for The Immortal Story

    Restricted by budget, and talky and cumbersome in places but bears flashes of brilliance that remind you just who is in control of the action.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Rarely-seen Welles feature about an expat orchestrates a tale of sexual and emotional manipulation.
  • Jules Et Jim (1962)
    Review preview for Jules Et Jim

    A beautifully shot fun romp that isn't afraid to question received ideals of morality and find them wanting.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A French love triangle, spanning the years. Out on reissue in May.
  • A Lady In Paris (2012)
    Review preview for A Lady In Paris

    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.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3 out of 5
    A woman leaves Estonia to look after an elderly Estonian woman... but finds her services are less than welcome.
  • Lift To The Scaffold (1958)
    Review preview for Lift To The Scaffold

    In this very impressive debut from Louis Malle, the small budget proves no impediment to delivering a taut thriller.

    Chris · 3.5 out of 5
    Moreau's first lead role about an unfaithful wife who finds nothing but trouble after a fling with her lover.
  • The Lovers (1958)
    Review preview for The Lovers

    The film is as fresh as it was in 1958. As challenging as it was then. And as beautiful.

    Chris · 4.5 out of 5
    Controversial drama about a married mum who walks out on her husband.
  • Mademoiselle (1966)
    Review preview for Mademoiselle

    Apart from the femme-fatale-in-overdrive aspect of this film, it is also visually satisfying in every possible way.

    Chris · 4.5 out of 5
    A repressed schoolteacher vents her frustration on the local community.
  • Mr Klein (1976)
    Review preview for Mr Klein

    Losey had shown how adept he was at claustrophobic interiors before, with the likes of The Servant, but here he also shows a flair for more abstract sweeping cinema.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    A man who is taking advantage of his fleeing Jewish neighbours in the Second World War becomes obsessed with his Jewish 'double'.
  • Querelle (1982)
    Review preview for Querelle

    Cineastes should delight in the opportunity to behold the work of a pioneer.

    Chris · 4 out of 5
    A young man explores his sexuality in a decadent French brothel.
  • The Trial (1962)
    Review preview for The Trial

    Welles – who felt this was the best movie he ever made – evokes the feeling of menacing, disorientating bureaucracy, of the senselessness of our existence, of inexplicable and inescapable threat.

    Chris · 4 out of 5
    A man wakes up to discover the police want to talk to him, but he has no idea what he's supposed to have done.
  • Time To Leave (2005)
    Review preview for Time To Leave

    Time To Leave is at times laboured, but it is an intelligent film.

    Chris · 3 out of 5
    The last great taboo - a dissection of a young man coming to terms with death with the help of his grandmother.
  • Viva Maria! (1965)
    Review preview for Viva Maria!

    Unlike many lightweight mainstream films, its dominant ideologies are refreshingly subversive.

    Chris · 3.5 out of 5
    Malle's comic western starring Bardot and Moreau as strip-tease pioneers.

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