The trilogy “Love, Sex and Dreams” is shaping up as this summer’s most sophisticated cinephile secret.

Director Ferzan Özpetek and actor Toni Servillo are back in the annual showcase.

Restraint here is powerful and multifaceted and dramatically effective, signaling terrors rather than drowning us in them.

A careful observer of human nature, Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud’s script is filled with experiences deeply specific to a time and place, yet universally relatable.

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

Audacious, expressionistic, and evocative, Viet and Nam blends a secret romance between two young male coal miners with reverberations of the historic past.

A reunion rife with old grievances and new tensions, often exploding around a dining room table.

It wouldn’t be a French film festival without Isabelle Huppert, and she arrives this year in Patricia Mazuy’s Visiting Hours.

Four recommendations for this must-see annual festival.