Tag: French films

Look out for the French!

Look out for the French!

Film-festival preview by John P. Harvey. The Alliance Française French Film Festival, possibly the largest and almost certainly the most ...
[Film review] Bye Bye Morons [Adieu les cons]

[Film review] Bye Bye Morons [Adieu les cons]

Suze Trappet (Virginie Efira)’s years-long quest to find the son whom she surrendered at birth has acquired fresh urgency with ...
[Film review] De Gaulle

[Film review] De Gaulle

World War II, June 1940, Paris. Germany has crossed into France and battered the French military. In a French cabinet ...
Delicious [Délicieux] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

Delicious [Délicieux] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

In 1789 France, revolution is brewing. But aristocrats confident of their inborn right to rule continue to indulge themselves in ...
Poly — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

Poly — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

From Nicolas Vanier, director of the family favourites Belle & Sebastian and Spread Your Wings, comes another movie featuring empathic ...
Black Box [Boîte Noire] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

Black Box [Boîte Noire] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

Mathieu (Pierre Niney), a dedicated, highly skilled air-accident investigator with exceptional ability to distinguish sounds on cockpit voice recorders, is ...
De Gaulle — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

De Gaulle — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

World War II, June 1940, Paris. Germany has crossed into France and battered the French military. In a French cabinet ...
Antoinette in the Cévennes [Antoinette dans les Cévennes] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

Antoinette in the Cévennes [Antoinette dans les Cévennes] — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

The school holidays are imminent, and teacher Antoinette (Laure Calamy) is excited by the prospect of a clandestine week with ...
Eiffel — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

Eiffel — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

Eiffel opens just before the acceptance of Gustave Eiffel’s entry into the competition to build France’s magnificent display piece for ...
Night Shift — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

Night Shift — Alliance Française French Film Festival 2021

Supplementing the events of a single day with two or three flashbacks, Night Shift introduces a situation and three police ...