Category: Film Reviews
![OSS 117: From Africa With Love [OSS 117: Alerte rouge en Afrique noire] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2022](https://bmamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cZTVFoWr8teRlVLHSueMycnAJuQ.jpg)
OSS 117: From Africa With Love [OSS 117: Alerte rouge en Afrique noire] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2022
Review by Michele E. Hawkins. Suave, handsome, sophisticated, and irresistible to women — at least by his own assessment — ...

The Magnitude of All Things — Stronger Than Fiction documentary festival
Review by John P. Harvey. Activist sentiment in averting climate breakdown and ecosystem collapse predominates in The Magnitude of All ...
![Farewell, Mister Haffmann [Adieu Monsieur Haffmann] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2022](https://bmamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/farewell-mr-haffman.filmstill.1.jpg)
Farewell, Mister Haffmann [Adieu Monsieur Haffmann] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2022
Review by Michele E. Hawkins. Since June 1940, Paris has been occupied by the Germans. Now, in 1941, it’s clear ...

Kompromat — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2022
Review by John P. Harvey. Though he doesn’t know how, Alliançe Francaise Russia’s French director, Mathieu (Gilles Lellouche), has poked ...
![Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown [Hommes au bord de la crise de nerfs] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2022](https://bmamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/hommes-au-bord-de-la-crise-de-nerfs.jpg)
Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown [Hommes au bord de la crise de nerfs] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2022
Review by Michele E. Hawkins. City dwellers Hippolyte (Thierry Lhermitte), Romain (Ramzy Bedia), Antoine (François-Xavier Demaison), Michel (Laurent Stocker), Ivan ...
![Rumba Therapy [Rumba la vie] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2022](https://bmamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/z2G5uXKG9pewqhczRsnxIcrrdUR.jpg)
Rumba Therapy [Rumba la vie] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2022
Review by John P. Harvey. Is it possible to undo or to atone for mistakes long past, or at least ...
![Hear Me Out [On est fait pour s’entendre] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2022](https://bmamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/pbeMb248y4ZjhP65Go1ygrqDvHY.jpg)
Hear Me Out [On est fait pour s’entendre] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2022
Review by Michele E. Hawkins. Antoine (Pascal Elbé), a history professor, is a very nice person, really, but he’s finding ...
![French Tech [Les 2 Alfred] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2022](https://bmamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/les-deux-alfred-1.jpg)
French Tech [Les 2 Alfred] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2022
Review by John P. Harvey. As if saving his marriage didn’t entail cheerfully facing enough challenges — preparing meals for ...

Eva-Maria — Stronger Than Fiction documentary festival 2021
Review by Michele E. Hawkins. Eva-Maria has reached her early thirties and has decided that she wants to have a ...

Goliath — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2022
Review by John P. Harvey. The Goliath of this story is the fictitious Big Ag company Phytosanis. Phytosanis manufactures a ...