Films starring Benoît Magimel

The Taste of Things review – every frame is delectable

By David Jenkins

Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel play late 19th century gourmets in Tran Ahn Hung’s scintillating epic of proto-foodie passions.

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Paris Memories review – a poignant mediation on personal trauma

By Hannah Strong

Alice Winocour draws on her brother’s experiences of the 2015 Bataclan attack to create a drama about recovering from trauma.

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Pacifiction

By David Jenkins

The Polynesian island of Tahiti represents a tropical purgatory for the French colonists in Albert Serra’s apocalyptic political thriller.

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An Easy Girl

By Lillian Crawford

This sun-bleached, Cannes-set romantic drama from director Rebecca Zlotowski is not to be missed.

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Memoir of War

By David Jenkins

A perfectly calibrated central performance by Mélanie Thierry powers this dour wartime literary drama.

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