Directed by Mia Hansen-Love Produced by Charles Gillibert Written by Hansen-Love and Sven Hansen-Love Music by Daft Punk, Joe Smooth, Frankie Knuckles, Terry Hunter, and MK Released by Broad Green Pictures English and French with English subtitles France. 131 min. Not rated With Félix de Givry, Pauline Etienne, Vincent Macaigne, Hugo Conzelmann, Arsinée Khanjian, and […]
Directed by André Téchiné Written by Téchiné, Jean-Charles Le Roux, and Cédric Anger Produced by Olivier Delbosc and Marc Missonnier Released by Cohen Media Group French with English subtitles France. 116 min. Rated R With Catherine Deneuve, Guillaume Canet, and Adèle Haenel A mild-mannered lawyer attaches himself to a wealthy casino matriarch. He wins the […]
Written and Directed by Cédric Jimenez Produced by Alain Goldman Released by Drafthouse Films French with English subtitles France. 135 min. Rated R With Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Céline Sallette, and Benoît Magimel The Connection, a ’70s-era crime-thriller, opens with a bike chase sequence along the coastal highway of Marseille. From the start, director Cédric […]
Written and Directed by David Oelhoffen, based on “The Guest,” a short story by Albert Camus Produced by Marc du Pontavice and Matthew Gledhill Released by Tribeca Film French, Arabic, and Spanish with English subtitles France. 110 min. Not rated With Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb, Vincent Martin, and Djemel Barek Loosely based on a short […]
Directed by Pierre Salvadori Produced by Philippe Martin Written by Salvadori and David Colombo-Leotard Released by Cohen Media Group French with English Subtitles France. 97 min. Not rated With Catherine Deneuve, Gustave Kerven, and Féodor Atkine Can there be any film genre tougher to pull off than black comedy? Cinema is littered with flops that […]
Written and Directed by Frédéric Tcheng Produced by Tcheng and Guillaume de Roquemaurel Released by the Orchard French, English, and Flemish with English subtitles France. 89 min. Not rated The late designer and icon Christian Dior set a superb standard for lavish French couture in 1947. In the 2010s, a reserved menswear designer stands to […]
Directed by Benoît Jacquot Produced by Edouard Weil and Alice Girard Written by Julien Boivent and Jacquot Released by Cohen Media Group France/Germany/Belgium. 106 min. Rated PG-13 In French with English subtitles With Benoît Poelvoorde, Chiara Mastroianni, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Catherine Deneuve Meet Marc Beaulieu, a balding, panic attack-prone tax auditor with close-set, tired eyes; […]
In one of the most diverse and compact film series that New York City has to offer, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema makes its annual late-winter trek to the Film Society of Lincoln Center, bringing with it films that have made the rounds in France’s awards season. (The top prize winner at the César Awards, Timbuktu, […]
Edited, Written, and Directed by Robin Campillo Produced by Hugues Charbonneau and Marie-Ange Luciani Released by First Run Features French, English, Russian, and Ukrainian with English subtitles France. 128 min. Not rated With Olivier Rabourdin, Kirill Emelyanov, Danil Vorobyev, Edea Darcque, Camila Charnirova, and Beka Markozashvili In the discreet, subdued, and wholly engrossing Eastern Boys, […]