Our Children Blu-ray Review
Viewers of Our Children will not easily forget this harrowing examination of a seemingly perfect family dynamic slowly undoing itself from the inside.
Looking For Hortense Review
The unfortunate thing about Looking For Hortense is that Kristin Scott Thomas is the best thing about the film. This is unfortunate because whilst she practically fills every scene for the first ten minutes, the film is very quick to put her and her storyline aside to concentrate on Jean-Pierre Bacri's character, Damien.
In The House DVD Review
François Ozon returns with Dans la maison (In The House), which is one of the most sophisticated and shattering pieces of recent French cinema.
Les Invisibles Review
Having appeared out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Les Invisibles became associated with the heights of French cinema even before it screened commercially. The documentary by Sébastien Lifshitz... Read More...
Therese Desqueyroux Review
Claude Miller's final film, Therese Desqueyroux, is a carefully shot and delicately told story based upon the 1927 novel by François Mauriac. The film follows Therese, played by the hauntingly powerful Audrey Tautou, who marries her rich neighbour, Bernard Desqueyroux (Gilles Lellouche) to bring together their two mighty estates.
Something in the Air Review
Something in the Air has Olivier Assayas back in autobiographical mode again, mirroring his 1994 film Cold Water in not only form but in the name of the protagonist used to represent Assayas, called Gilles in both. Retitled rather than translated from the French Apres Mai (After May,) Something in the Air is perhaps the more fitting title when its content is considered. The French title refers to the period in which the film takes place, after May 1968. The English one to a Thunderclap Newman song from roughly the same time. More than this though, it speaks of the films wandering quality. There is something is the air, but Assayas makes no great attempt to grasp at exactly what it is.