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  • 21 Nights With Pattie (2015)
    Review preview for 21 Nights With Pattie

    This initially seems like a set-up for a film exploring mental reconciliation after estrangement but the Larrieus have other ideas - perhaps too many of them.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    After her mother has died, Caroline befriends a woman who was looking after her mother, but events take a mysterious turn.
  • The Axe (2005)
    Review preview for The Axe

    Garcia – reminiscent of a young Jack Lemmon - puts the hang into dog perfectly and the script will bite your arm off.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    It's murder to find a job in France.
  • Delicatessen (1990)
    Review preview for Delicatessen

    Superbly conceived, brilliantly executed, it surpasses expectation and defies description.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    In a post-holocaust world, a butcher and landlord feeds his customers on the flesh of unfortunate tenants.
  • Families (2015)
    Review preview for Families

    What should have been a chamber piece for veteran writer/director Jean-Paul Rappeneau turns out to be a racer, neither in control nor out of breath.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Family secrets are revealed when relatives fight over a country house.
  • L'Enfer (2005)
    Review preview for L'Enfer

    L'Enfer is an antidote to romanticism.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    The tale of three desperately unhappy sisters.
  • New Eve (1999)
    Review preview for New Eve

    This is not so much a love story as sex warfare.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A chance encounter leads to obssession.
  • Polisse (2011)
    Review preview for Polisse

    The camera is always very close to the actors, in their faces, capturing what can only be done in fiction.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    Drama delves into the lives and work of a child protection unit.
  • Paris (2008)
    Review preview for Paris

    A film you'll never forget.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A medical diagnosis leaves a young dancer and his sister in care(e)r gridlock.
  • Species (2026)
    Review preview for Species

    Le Coroller’s horror is at its best when it focuses on Margot’s psychological meltdown as she works against the clock.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Margot dreams of becoming a life-saving doctor. But as an intern at the most competitive ER in the country, she has trouble keeping up. Soon, young burnt out patients come to her with unusual symptoms, just as she starts developing a strange metamorphosis…
  • Summer Things (2002)
    Review preview for Summer Things

    Light without being floaty, easy to watch without leaving a trace, almost attractive, certainly self-assured and faintly amusing.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Sexual liaisons and family misunderstandings on a French holiday with Charlotte Rampling.
  • Time Out (2001)
    Review preview for Time Out

    The film is well acted and well made. At more than two hours, you feel it.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A businessman pretends to his wife and family that he has a prestigious job in Switzerland.

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