Everything Went Fine (2021) (Tout s’est bien passé)
★★★★☆
Everything Went Fine by François Ozon is a tender, surprisingly darkly humorous look at euthanasia and family relationships.
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Cannes Film Festival 2022 Day 1: Opening Film Coupez! (Final Cut) 2022
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival Day 1: Opening Film Coupez! (Final Cut) 2022 – the Opening Film Out of Competition is Final Cut directed by Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist).
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Day 11
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Day 11
Cannes Film Festival Day 9: Titane
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Day 9: Titane
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Day 10
★★★★★
Cannes 2021 Day 10: Les Olympiades, Memoria, France./
Deerskin (2019)
★★★★☆
Deerskin (Le Daim) by Quentin Dupieux is an oddball, quirky black comedy about a suede jacket with killer propensities.
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Day 2: Tout s’est Bien Passé (Everything Went Fine) 2021
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Day 2
Proxima (2019) – On demand
★★★★☆
The French female astronaut in woman-centred Proxima, directed by Anna Winocour, is torn apart by the conflict between needing the freedom to achieve and the pain of separation from her daughter.
La Haine (1995) – new 4K restoration
★★★★★
Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine remastered remains a ticking bomb, full of seething energy ready to explode.
Les Misérables (2019)
★★★★☆
Les Misérables is an explosive first feature about simmering racial tensions in a Paris banlieu from Malian-French actor and director Ladj Ly.
Perfumes (2019) (Les parfums)
★★★☆☆
Charmingly fragrant, very French not-exactly romcom Perfumes by Grégory Magne stars Emmanuelle Devos and Grégory Montel as the autumnal odd-couple.
Pinocchio (2020)
★★★★☆
Matteo Garrone’s surreal live-action fantasy takes the Italian classic Pinocchio disturbingly back to its original dark roots.
Proxima (2019)
★★★★☆
The superbly focused French female astronaut in woman-centred Proxima directed by Anna Winocour is torn apart by the conflict between needing freedom to achieve and the pain of separation from her daughter.
Fire Will Come (O Que Arde) (2019) – ON DEMAND
★★★★☆
Fire Will Come is a prophetic, arresting and mesmerising love letter to nature by Oliver Laxe.