Film-Forward

Foreign

When Fall Is Coming

With an all-around excellent cast, prolific French director François Ozon has crafted an intriguing puzzler.

Viet and Nam

Audacious, expressionistic, and evocative, Viet and Nam blends a secret romance between two young male coal miners with reverberations of the historic past.

Who by Fire

A reunion rife with old grievances and new tensions, often exploding around a dining room table.

This Life of Mine, Visiting Hours, Winter in Sokcho | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2025

It wouldn’t be a French film festival without Isabelle Huppert, and she arrives this year in Patricia Mazuy’s Visiting Hours.

And Their Children After Them, The Quiet Son, The Second Act, Souleymane’s Story | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2025

Four recommendations for this must-see annual festival.

Three Friends | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2025

Sara Forestier, left, and Camille Cottin in Three Friends (Sebastien Fouque/Film At

Emmanuel Mouret’s, sharply written, breezy, and engaging chamber piece opened the annual festival.

I’m Still Here

Perhaps director Walter Salles’s best film since Central Station.

Vermiglio

An outwardly quiet movie that is deceptively eventful.

The Girl with the Needle

Denmark’s submission for this year’s Best International Feature Film Academy Award.