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Tag: French Film

Venus in Fur (La Vénus à la fourrure, 2013) Movie Review & Filmsummary, Cast

I admit that much of Roman Polanski’s later oeuvre has left me cold. Sometimes I wonder if this offers...

Dheepan (2015) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Jacques Audiard, a screenwriter since the 1970s who turned to directing in the ‘90s, broke through to international attention...

Coco Avant Chanel (2009) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Although in form and intent very much Biopic 101, Coco Avant Chanel, directed Anne Fontaine, maker of the interesting...

Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des Loups, 2001) Movie Review & Filmsummary, Cast

In initial viewings, Christophe Gans’ loopy, imaginative mixture of horror film, swashbuckler, chop-socky flick and conspiracy thriller, struck me...

Queen Margot (La reine Margot, 1994) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Patrice Chereau’s elaborate, expensive take on the costume epic, an extension of the grimier, would-be honest period films of...

The Transporter (2002) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary

Ür-text for much of the past decade’s high-flying thrill-rides, with future House of Besson protégés Pierre Morel as Director...

District B13 (Banlieue 13, 2004) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Could also be called The Running, Jumping, and Never Standing Still Film. Taken director Pierre Morel’s debut, under the...

Jules et Jim (1961) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

.Having watched this film twice, I can say it consistently gives me a conflicted reaction. I love Truffaut’s...

Hotel du Nord (1938) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

A fine Marcel Carné film from the age of fullest flowering for the poetic-realist movement. But it’s also not...