Perfect Lovers Clotilde Hesme and Louis Garrel as Lili and François. Is three hours too long for Philippe Garrel’s latest film, Les Amants Réguliers? Not really, since it is time well spent in the company of these two lovers, far … Read More
The Everyday Life of a Killer The lady (Ludmila Mikael) and the murderer (Elie Semoun). The great French humorist Tristan Bernard (1866-1947) knew what he was talking about when he said, “Never count on anyone except yourself, and even then … Read More
The Devil You (Don’t) Know Would you want to spend the night here? Photo: Alex Lamarque Sheitan is “un film de genre,” a disparaging term in France for any movie that isn’t exactly high art, which this most definitely isn’t. … Read More
This Is the End The last few months in a young man’s life. François Ozon’s Le Temps qui Reste (Time to Leave) can be seen as a companion piece to the director’s 2000 film Sous le Sable. Both are meditations … Read More
Vote Non! Président isn’t a bad film – it’s a monumentally terrible film. You’re watching a film about a fictional president of France with the surprising title of, well, Président, and you’re thinking, Now, any country can make a mistake … Read More
False Witness Johan Libereau, Michel Blanc and Emmanuelle Béart party down. In André Téchiné’s Les Témoins (The Witnesses), it’s 1984 and Manu (Johan Libereau) has just arrived in Paris. He soon meets a doctor, Adrien (Michel Blanc), in a cruising … Read More
Deadly Serious The splendid Nathalie Baya is great at playing a drunk. Last week I went to see two vastly different, yet similar, films. Both were well-written, well-directed, well-acted – and both were deadly dull. The first was Clint Eastwood’s … Read More
Split Personality Julia (Tilda Swinton): aging goodtime girl, serious alcoholic and marvellously self-destructive. March 12, 2008 Typical. You wait 10 years for a new Erick Zonca movie and then five come along at once. Unfortunately, the director of The Dreamlife … Read More
Keeping the Faith Ismaël (Roschdy Zem) and Clara (Cécile de France) confront the issues in Mauvaise Foi. Ismaël (Roschdy Zem) and Clara (Cécile de France) have been together for four years. They’re a happy couple, but when Clara discovers that … Read More
Paris Update Flash News iNEFFABLE STORIES “Wagner, Méphistophélès et l’Homonculus” (2013), by Gérard Garouste. Courtesy Galerie Daniel Templon. Photo: B.Huet/Tutti One painting in “Contes Ineffables,” French artist Gérard Garouste’s current exhibition of paintings and sculpture at the Galerie Daniel Templon … Read More
