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  • Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)
    Review preview for Les Enfants du Paradis

    Breathtakingly ambitious, exquisitely realised and performed and made under extreme circumstances, Les Enfants Du Paradis is an absolute joy to behold and a monument to the power of the arts to transcend opressive social and political climates.

    Neil Mitchell · 5 out of 5
    Four men compete for the affections of Garance, a free spirited courtesan.
  • Eyes Without A Face (1960)
    Review preview for Eyes Without A Face

    Franju is carefully slicing along the line where the concrete rigours of modern science intersect with the abstractions of youth, beauty and ephemerality.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    A surgeon abducts girls - attempting to transplant their faces on to that of his disfigured daughter.
  • Goto, L'Île D'Amour (1968)
    Review preview for Goto, L'Île D'Amour

    Full of tricks and ambiguities that will trap any viewer confined to the single, narrow perspective that the film itself tries to impose.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    The wife of an island's despotic ruler, attempts to escape with her lover.
  • King Of Hearts (1966)
    Review preview for King Of Hearts

    This film puts its cards on the table from the start, but plays them with a light touch.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Sent to the small town of Marville to disarm a bomb left behind by retreating German troops, an English soldier finds it has been taken over by the abandoned inmates of the local asylum.
  • Port of Shadows (1938)
    Review preview for Port of Shadows

    The kindness of strangers in this foreboding and foggy world of gangsters and crooks reveals an aspirational and tender heart underneath it all.

    Robert Munro · 5 out of 5
    A military deserter finds love, trouble and a small dog in a foggy Le Havre - the Port of Shadows.

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