Overview of articles
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Nos vies formidables
Excellent ensemble performance in gripping drama about drink and drug addicts who try to get their lives back on track.Published on: -
Le livre d’image
Stimulating film essay full of compelling fragments dealing with violence, chaos, revolution and representation, narrated in whispered voice-over by fPublished on: -
British Agent
While the Russian Revolution is in full swing, a British secret agent has to prevent Bolsheviks signing a treaty with Germany. Against his better judgPublished on: -
Une jeunesse dorée
At the height of disco, two young lovers from Paris are taken under the wing of a bourgeois-hippy couple.Published on: -
Le cinéma en deux
At Claude Chabrol’s request, Patrice Énard arrived on the set of Dr Popal to observe and deconstruct this ‘different’ form of cinema.Published on: -
Ma nudité ne sert à rien
In today’s Paris, novelist/actress/screenwriter/director Marina de Van (In My Skin, 2002) struggles with relationships, her own image and nudity in thPublished on: -
Faites sortir les figurants
Who are the people who respond to ‘extras wanted’ advertisements? This documentary gives them each a face and a voice.Published on: -
Screen
A mesmerising accumulation of floating imagery reverses the relationship between the hypnotised subject and the hypnotist, and between the spectator aPublished on: -
Un amour impossible
Empathy-arousing French adaptation of Christine Angot’s bestseller in which Rachel can’t seem to escape her doomed love affair.Published on: -
Doubles vies
Nimble comedy drama where Olivier Assayas (Après mai, Personal Shopper) criticises a generation of French intellectuals struggling to move withPublished on: