This ultra conventional lesbian melodrama from French director Catherine Corsini shows that going through the motions still has its pleasures.
Catherine Corsini’s new film carries the torch for Agnès Varda’s feminist musical.
The French writer/director on the non-diversity casting of her intimate ‘modern love story’.
By Sophie Yapp
This visually lustrous animated adventure film is hamstrung by its simplistic central story.
Hot sex and cold moralising come together in this strange examination of how French teens spend their downtime.
The young star of Blue is the Warmest Colour talks exclusively about going behind bars for Down by Love.
The imperious Vincent Lindon excels as an ill-fated factory worker in this engaging social drama.
Emmanuelle Bercot and Vincent Cassel tear each other apart in this so-so relationship drama.
Xavier Dolan returns to Cannes with a star-studded ensemble drama about a dysfunctional family. It’s all a bit flat.
By Ed Frankl
There’s shades of Céline Sciamma’s Girlhood in Houda Benyamina’s stirring debut.
By Ed Frankl
Julia Ducournau’s French campus cannibal horror serves up plenty of food for thought.
Marion Cotillard shines in this uneven but soulful meditation on marriage and depression.
Director Bruno Dumont invites us on a French sea-side holiday with a macabre twist.
French director Alain Guiraudie follows up Stranger by the Lake with another alluring and elliptical thriller.
The French writer/director reveals the steps she took to make her eerie sea-side epic.
By Tom Bond
Miguel Gomes, Jacques Audiard and others are capturing a shifting continental mood.
The French director of A Prophet and Dheepan is drawn to stories of human resistance and struggle.
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