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When Fall Is Coming

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

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.

Daaaaaalí!

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.

The Goldman Case

A methodical and engrossing courtroom drama based on the real-life 1976 trial of the mercurial far-left militant Pierre Goldman.

Last Summer

A tense, gripping story of an ultra-dangerous liaison, Catherine Breillat’s latest film makes every scene count and keeps you hooked.

Àma Gloria/The Rapture/Sisterhood/Auction | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2024

Most of the 21 films on this year’s lineup rely on stories that center around the various ways we connect with others.

Banel & Adam, Just the Two of Us, Red Island | Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2024

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.