Rendez-Vous with French Cinema | 2023
Post-colonial fallout reverberates through several strong films at the 2023 edition of the annual festival.
Film-Forward
A Radiant Girl
Teen romance and the looming Holocaust make for bizarre bedfellows in actor Sandrine Kiberlain’s debut directorial feature.
The Blue Caftan
Melancholy and tentative hope are stitched together in a bittersweet story of a Moroccan tailor shop and the three lonely yet interwoven souls within.
Saint Omer
A talky, heady, and metaphorical courtroom drama conceals depths of sadness beneath its intellectual and legalistic surface.
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
If you’re in the mood for something stylish, breezy, yet moving, A Treasure of His Youth should provoke a bravo or three.
Framing Agnes
An ultra-meta, hybrid documentary that pursues too many different ideas, characters, and conceits.