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Caché
Book programme presenter Georges gets mysterious video recordings of himself and his family, accompanied by worrying drawings. He soon becomes convincPublished on: -
Portrait du peintre dans son atelier
Film maker visits a friend. The painter hangs round in his studio and the filmmaker films. For the sequel, see Un peintre sous surveillance.Published on: -
Success Is the Best Revenge
Exiled theatre director is bent on breaking through in his new homeland England. His son Adam (played by Skolimowski’s own son Michael Lyndon) strugglPublished on: -
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L’imprudence
What starts as an uneasy conversation between two adolescents on a holiday ends as a power game in the woods.Published on: -
La vie moderne
Third part of Depardon’s Profils paysans trilogy. He interviews idiosyncratic French country dwellers, often far from eloquent, about their tough andPublished on: -
Les enfants désaccordés
Garrel, the ‘Rimbaud of cinema’, made his first short 35mm film when he was 16. A boy and a girl flee school and family.Published on: -
Eldorado
Belgian submission for 2009 doesn’t stand a chance at the Oscars. In this absurdist-tragic road movie, Yvan (all-round talent Lanners himself) gives tPublished on: -
Les petits frères
Talia (13) battles her contemporaries to protect her dog Kim. Rituals, codes of behaviour and everyday life are accurately reflected in this moving poPublished on: -
La trahison
The complexity and absurdity of war is powerfully portrayed in this psychologically motivated story about treachery during the Algerian civil war.Published on: