Sylvain Savard as Massimo, husband of the long-suffering Antonia, played by Lou Tordjman. Photo © Compagnie Idéale As soon as I heard the tunefully sung opening to Récits de Femmes, I was hooked. I confess I went to the Théâtre … Read More
Left to right: Alexis Victor as Jerry, Sacha Petronijevic as Robert and Delphine Lalizout as Emma in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal. Harold Pinter in French is surely a non sequitur. A few playwrights – Alan Bennett, John Osborne and Tom Stoppard … Read More
Amélie Fans Beware Oct. 27, 2004: If you, like millions of others, loved Amélie, the film that managed to make Montmartre even more of a tourist attraction, that doesn’t mean you will love director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s latest, “Un long dimanche … Read More
Alien Eyes Above: Zombie-like Charlotte Rampling catches the model couple kissing in the kitchen. Below: Charlotte Gainsbourg gets a shock. Photos: © Philippe Quaisse After all the hype at the current Cannes Film Festival and the success of Dominik Moll’s … Read More
Fear of Flying Marion Cotillard and Vincent Elbaz in Ma Vie en l’Air. Photo: © Alain Fillit Ma Vie en l’Air, the first feature film directed by Rémi Bezançon, gets off to a promising, quick-paced start, with a bitterweet Amélie-style … Read More
Suburban Trials of Fire Adrien Jolivet as Zim, in trouble with the law again. In France, the banlieue (suburbs) – less a haven for middle-class families than the equivalent of the American ghetto – seems to have become the subject … Read More
Neighborly Love Frédéric Diefenthal plays Paco, an ex-con. Although Voisins, Voisines, a new film directed by Malik Chibane, got good reviews when it opened in late July, it seems to be going more or less unnoticed by French movie-goers; only … Read More
Who’s Crazy Now? Emmanuelle Devos contemplates Vincent Lindon’s controversial lip brush in in La Moustache. The much-anticipated film La Moustache is now playing on French screens. Based on the novel by Emmanuel Carrère, with a scenario by Emmanuel Carrère (and … Read More
Literary Reflections Who is the captor and who is the captive? Photo: Alain Potignon © 2005 EuropaCorp, TF1Films Production, Studio Lavabo Patrick Bouchitey directed, wrote (with Jackie Berroyer) and stars in Imposture, a new film about a French literature professor … Read More
Mitterrand’s Final Days Michel Bouquet and Jalil Lespert in Le Promeneur du Champ-de-Mars. Photo © FILM OBLIGE Eric Moulin The hot topic in France this past week has been the new film on the last days of former Socialist President … Read More
