When Fall Is Coming
By Rania Richardson April 3, 2025

With an all-around excellent cast, prolific French director François Ozon has crafted an intriguing puzzler.
With an all-around excellent cast, prolific French director François Ozon has crafted an intriguing puzzler.
It wouldn’t be a French film festival without Isabelle Huppert, and she arrives this year in Patricia Mazuy’s Visiting Hours.
Four recommendations for this must-see annual festival.
Emmanuel Mouret’s, sharply written, breezy, and engaging chamber piece opened the annual festival.
If there was ever a current director working today who should be making a film about artist Salvador Dalí, it is French writer/director Quentin Dupieux.
A methodical and engrossing courtroom drama based on the real-life 1976 trial of the mercurial far-left militant Pierre Goldman.
A tense, gripping story of an ultra-dangerous liaison, Catherine Breillat’s latest film makes every scene count and keeps you hooked.
Most of the 21 films on this year’s lineup rely on stories that center around the various ways we connect with others.
One could argue that the festival couldn’t occur at a better time, when French films are enjoying success in the U.S. this year.