French Cinema

Clouds of Sils Maria

By Adam Nayman

Kristen Stewart achieves the impressive feat of outshining Juliette Binoche in this rich drama from Olivier Assayas.

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Girlhood

By Anton Bitel

This quietly radical and poetic teen drama depicts the black experience in the suburbs of Paris.

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Welcome to New York

By Jordan Cronk

The voracious sexual appetite of Dominique Strauss-Kahn makes the basis for Abel Ferrara’s brilliant, provocative new film.

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Chinese Puzzle

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Cédric Klapisch rounds off his star-spangled, globe-hopping serial in the Big Apple, with mildly amusing results.

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Stranger by the Lake

By David Jenkins

A scintillating and quietly radical gay-cruising murder mystery set in a single, sunny location.

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Alain Guiraudie: ‘I’m dealing with my own experience of sexuality’

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

The French director has finally reached the mainstream with a murder mystery set on a gay nudist beach. LWLies met him.

La Belle et la Bête (1946)

By Glenn Heath Jr

Jean Cocteau’s ravishing and erotic masterwork is restored as part of BFI’s huge survey of Gothic cinema.

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Blue is the Warmest Colour

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Abdellatif Kechiche’s passionate lesbian love story is a screen romance that’s built for the long-haul.

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Something in the Air

By Wally Hammond

A teen rite of passage drama with a political twist from French maestro Olivier Assayas.

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In the House

By Adam Woodward

Literary prodigy writes rings around his prof in the spry latest from arty teaser François Ozon.

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Carlos

By Matt Bochenski

Olivier Assayas serves up an imaginative but exhausting study of a man who embodied the shifting sands of history.

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A Prophet

By Dan Brightmore

Director Jacques Audiard and Tahar Rahim deliver a true tour de force in this unforgettable prison drama.

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Summer Hours

By Ellen E Jones

Olivier Assayas is a fascinating filmmaker who has made a difficult film to like.

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