Directed by Michel Gondry Produced by Gondry, Julie Fong, Raffi Adlan & Georges Bermann Written by Gondry, Jeffrey Grimshaw & Paul Proch Released by Paladin/108 Media UK/USA/France. 103 min. Not rated With Michael Brodie, Teresa Lynn, Laidychen Carrasco, Raymond Delgado, Jonathan Ortiz, Jonathan Worrell, Alex Barrios, Meghan “Niomi” Murphy, Raymond Rios, Brandon Diaz, Manuel Rivera, […]
As usual, the mid-winter Film Society of Lincoln Center mini-fest is strong in variety—an animated film here, a biopic there, some audience pleasing and others inscrutable—but it doesn’t necessarily represent the best of what France has to offer. Conspicuously missing in the lineup are the latest from star sourpuss Jean-Pierre Bacri in the droll rom-com […]
Directed & Written by Gaël Morel Produced by Paulo Branco Released by Breaking Glass Pictures French with English subtitles France. 97 min. Not rated With Stéphane Rideau, Dimitri Durdaine & Béatrice Dalle Blond and doe-eyed, Angelo (Dimitri Durdaine) is a teen prostitute whom other prostitutes pay to see naked. But being a pretty sex worker […]
Written & Directed by Abbas Kiarostami Produced by Marin Karmitz & Kenzo Horikoshi Released by Sundance Selects Japanese with English subtitles France/Japan. 109 min. Not rated With Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno & Ryo Kase Abbas Kiarostami’s follow up to his tremendous Certified Copy could be considered its companion piece. Again, he’s working outside of his […]
Written & Directed by Rose Bosch Produced by Ilan Goldman Released by Menemsha Films France. 115 min. Not rated French, German & Yiddish with English Subtitles With Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh, Raphäelle Agogué, Hugo Leverdez, Olivier Cywie, Mathieu & Romain Di Concetto, Rebecca Marder & Anne Brochet Advisory to American audiences: La Rafle […]
Directed by Jacques Audiard Written by Audiard & Thomas Bidegain, based on the short-story collection Rust and Bone by Craig Davidson Released by Sony Pictures Classics French with English subtitles. France. 120 min. Rated R With Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure, Céline Sallette, Corinne Masiero, Bouli Lanners & Jean-Michel Correia On first sight, the […]
Directed by Lorraine Lévy Produced by Virginie Lacombe & Raphael Berdugo Written by Nathalie Saugeon, Lévy & Noam Fitoussi Released by Cohen Media Group France. 105 min. Rated PG-13 English, French, Hebrew & Arabic with English subtitles With Emmanuelle Devos, Pascal Elbé, Jules Sitruk, Mehdi Dehbi, Areen Omari, Khalifa Natour, Mahmood Shalabi & Bruno Podalydès […]
Written & Directed by Leos Carax Produced by Pierre Grise Production, Théo Films, Arte France Cinéma, Pandora Film & WDR-Arte Released by Indomina Releasing English & French with English subtitles France/Germany. 116 min. Not rated With Denis Lavant, Édith Scob, Kylie Minogue, Eva Mendes & Michel Piccoli Leos Carax has returned in a big way […]
Directed by Anne Fontaine Produced by Francis Boespflug, Philippe Carcassonne, Bruno Pesery & Jérôme Seydoux Written by Fontaine & Nicholas Mercier Released by Strand Releasing French with English subtitles France. 103 min. Not rated With Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Poelvoorde, André Dussollier & Virginie Efira Anne Fontaine has had a curious career. The French director has […]