Category: Film Reviews

[Film review] La Belle Époque

[Film review] La Belle Époque

Offered the chance to visit any period in the past via its studio reconstruction and a band of versatile actors ...
[Film review] The Swallows of Kabul [Le hirondelles de Kaboul] — Dendy Cinemas

[Film review] The Swallows of Kabul [Le hirondelles de Kaboul] — Dendy Cinemas

In creating The Swallows of Kabul, directors Zabou Breitman and Élea Gobbé-Mévellec have adapted Yasmina Khadra’s novel of the same ...
[Film review] The Secret: Dare to Dream

[Film review] The Secret: Dare to Dream

Miranda Wells (Katie Holmes — Batman Begins), widowed six years ago, runs her car into the back of a utility ...
How to Be a Good Wife — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2020 — Palace Cinemas

How to Be a Good Wife — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2020 — Palace Cinemas

It is 1968, and Paulette (Juliette Binoche — Chocolat), along with her husband, Robert (François Berléand — Someone, Somewhere), has ...
The Translators [Les traducteurs] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2020 — Palace Cinemas

The Translators [Les traducteurs] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2020 — Palace Cinemas

The manuscript for the final volume in a thriller trilogy that the reading public has eagerly awaited is now ready ...
The Swallows of Kabul [Le hirondelles de Kaboul] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2020 — Palace Cinemas

The Swallows of Kabul [Le hirondelles de Kaboul] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2020 — Palace Cinemas

In creating The Swallows of Kabul, directors Zabou Breitman and Élea Gobbé-Mévellec have adapted Yasmina Khadra’s novel of the same ...
The Extraordinary [Hors normes] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2020 — Palace Cinemas

The Extraordinary [Hors normes] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2020 — Palace Cinemas

So realistic that it often feels like a documentary (though with an intimate candour suggesting otherwise), The Extraordinary depicts the ...
Spread Your Wings [Donne-moi des ailes] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2020 — Palace Cinemas

Spread Your Wings [Donne-moi des ailes] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2020 — Palace Cinemas

Review by Michele E. Hawkins. Fourteen-year old Thomas (Louis Vazquez) goes, by request of his mother, Paola (Mélanie Doutey), to ...
La Belle Époque — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2020 — Palace Cinemas

La Belle Époque — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2020 — Palace Cinemas

Offered the chance to visit any period in the past via its studio reconstruction and a band of versatile actors ...
Of Love and Lies [Fourmi] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2020 — Palace Cinemas

Of Love and Lies [Fourmi] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2020 — Palace Cinemas

In its opening scenes, Of Love and Lies rapidly sketches the characters of 12-year-old Théo (Meleaume Paquin — Remi, Nobody’s ...