Skip to main content

Search: Starring Sabine Azema

  • Cézanne And I (2016)
    Review preview for Cézanne And I

    It is the two world-famous guys Thompson tries to pin down like butterflies, as if she were a lepidopterist. They escape, of course, because their works are still alive.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3 out of 5
    Drama about the friendship between Cézanne and Émile Zola.
  • Life Of Riley (2014)
    Review preview for Life Of Riley

    If the characters are focused on how and if, for us the question why lingers in the air.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    A group of close friends discover that one of them only has a few months to live.
  • Life And Nothing But (1989)
    Review preview for Life And Nothing But

    Bertrand Tavernier has crafted a magnificent piece of work.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Humanity and bureaucracy clash as the debris of war is sifted and reconstituted.
  • The Officers' Ward (2001)
    Review preview for The Officers' Ward

    The integrity of Depeyron's direction, which avoids the grotesque in favour of the human spirit, is matched by an imaginative and unexpected use of the camera.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    A man's recovery in hospital after being disfigured on the fields of France during World War One.
  • Private Fears In Public Places (2006)
    Review preview for Private Fears In Public Places

    In clumsier hands this might have been yet another flimsy drama about a group of people longing for romance, but Alain Resnais' astute handling gradually illuminates those human interiors and shows us much more going on.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Several interconnected people search for emotional fulfillment during a Parisian winter.
  • Public Benches (2009)
    Review preview for Public Benches

    The juxtaposition between comedy and meditation on contemporary life does throw the viewer off-guard a little bit, but it is no the less effective for doing so.

    Adam Micklethwaite · 3.5 out of 5
    Ensemble film that sees a regular day at the office shattered when the staff notice a banner on the building opposite reading: Man Alone.
  • Secret Name (2021)
    Review preview for Secret Name

    For Aurélia Georges, going back to 1914 in Secret Name is not only a pretext for a story about class emancipation, but, above all, female emancipation.

    Mateusz Tarwacki · 3.5 out of 5
    Nelie escapes a miserable existence by becoming a frontline nurse in 1914 and goes on to discover emancipation can come with a price.
  • A Sunday In The Country (1984)
    Review preview for A Sunday In The Country

    Bertrand Tavernier has created a quiet little film, so quiet that it fails to communicate much at all.

    David Stanners · 2.5 out of 5
    An ageing artist is visited at his country estate by his family.

News and features

Paul Rowley on moving to New York, the Pulse massacre, and Gays Against Guns

Going ape Antonin Niclass on character creation, empathy and animated short Into The Forest

Freeform Will Niava on grief, new immigrant experiences and Jazz Infernal

In silence Emir Kumova on child marriage in Türkiye, moral challenges and making The Witness

Taking a ride into liminal spaces Katharine Round on making documentary Ghost Town

Flying blind Michael Woloson and Scott Tinkham on improvisation, experimental writing and Littermates

In deep water Dominic Curran on internet overexposure and A Little Learning Is A Dangerous Thing

More news and features

Festival coverage

Festivals
Cannes festival coverage, 2026

We're bringing you all the latest news and reviews from the Cheltenham International Film Festival, the Leeds International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and Tallinn Black Nights.



We're looking forward to the French Film Festival and DOC NYC.



We've recently brought you coverage of the Belfast Film Festival, Halloween Frightfest, the Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Newfest, the London Film Festival, the New York Film Festival and Grimmfest.



Read our full for more.


Visit our festivals section.