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Lean, mean and frequently terrifying,The Birthday Party(Histoires de la nuit) is a home-invasion thriller in the vein of films likeFunny…
You don’t have to have seen the 2018 French film on which it’s based to predict exactly where Ladies First…
Few directors of documentaries have ever made such a striking transition to dramatic films as Daniel Roher, the director of…
The question of time, and how best to spend it, is front of mind for the characters of Netflix’s The…
It would be difficult, if not impossible, to answer the obvious question raised by the title of Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed…
Cristian Mungiu’s films invariably deal with social, cultural and moral divisions, uneasy truths, ethical dilemmas and unjust compromises. In his…
Both the deadpan thrillers of the Coen brothers and the downbeat ‘70s crime flicks of French helmer Alain Corneau come…
Americans perhaps make a bit of a fuss over how good the food is in Paris, but Full Phil takes…
The French Resistance hero Jean Moulin was 44 when he was captured by the Gestapo in Lyon and tortured until…
It is almost an inevitability that biopics of artistic icons will fail to do them justice. The whole reason these…