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Everything Went Fine

Director François Ozon pulls no punches chronicling the heart-wrenching attempts of two daughters to honor their elderly father’s directive: He wants to end his life on his own terms.

Rodeo

At once raw and highly stylized, Rodeo fires up a rebel-without-a-cause spirit that lets its woman warrior run free.

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema | 2023

Post-colonial fallout reverberates through several strong films at the 2023 edition of the annual festival.

A Radiant Girl

Teen romance and the looming Holocaust make for bizarre bedfellows in actor Sandrine Kiberlain’s debut directorial feature.

Irreversible: Straight Cut

To Gaspar Noé’s credit, this edit does not feel more conventional than its predecessor. It is, however, revealing to watch, and not for reasons Noé intends.

Full Time

This frenetic and nerve-wracking movie makes the point that for many, it’s worse than a jungle out there.

Passages | Sundance 2023

In Ira Sachs’s brusquely told new film, the libido-led story line supported one of the festival’s best films.

Saint Omer

A talky, heady, and metaphorical courtroom drama conceals depths of sadness beneath its intellectual and legalistic surface.

A Couple

French actress Nathalie Boutefeu stars as Sophia Tolstoy, wife of the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, in a solo tour de force.