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, […]
Written and Directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov Produced by Magdalena Ilieva, Konstantina Stavrianou, Rena Vougioukalou, Grozeva and Valchanov Released by Film Movement Bulgarian with English subtitles Bulgaria. 105 min. Not rated.. With Margita Gosheva, Ivan Barnev, Ivan Savov and Stefan Denolyubov The Lesson, a haunting portrait from Bulgaria, begins with a serious, hard-working […]
Directed by Karim Aïnouz Produced by Geórgia Costa Araújo and Hank Levine Written by Aïnouz and Felipe Bragança Released by Strand Releasing Brazil. 107 min. Not rated With Wagner Moura, Clemens Schick, Jesuita Barbosa, and Savio Ygor Ramos Swathed in gleaming jewel tones and with a soundtrack of the pacifying acoustics of crashing waves, Futuro […]
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, […]
Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako Produced by Sylvie Pialat Written by Sissako and Kessen Tall Released by Cohen Media Group France/Mauritania. 97 min. Rated PG-13 Arabic, Bambara, French, English, Songhay, and Tamasheq with English subtitles With Ibrahim Ahmed aka Pino, Toulou Kiki, Abel Jafri, Layla Walet Mohamed, Adel Mahmoud Cherif, Fatoumata Diawara, and Salem Dendou Passionately […]
Written and Directed by Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz Produced by Marie Masmonteil, Sandrine Brauer, and Shlomi Elkabetz Released by Music Box Films Hebrew, French, Arabic with English subtitles France/Israel/Germany. 115 min. Not Rated With Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, Menashe Noy, Sasson Gabay, Eli Gorstein, and Gabi Amrani The struggle of modern women against conservative […]
With 41 French (co-)productions debuting at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, the event has evolved into an important platform for the country’s film industry, offering premieres that outnumber French debuts at Cannes. Just as Toronto kicks off the awards season in North America, it also serves the same purpose for the French films. Many […]
Written and Directed by Uberto Pasolini Produced by Pasolini, Christopher Simon, and Felix Vossen Released by Tribeca Film UK/Italy. 93 min. Not rated With Eddie Marsan, Joanne Froggatt, Karen Drury, and Andrew Buchan John May (Happy-Go-Lucky’s Eddie Marsan) has made a career of going to funerals. More specifically, he goes to the ones no one […]