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La Famille Belier
A hearing girl lives with her deaf parents and brother on a farm where she acts as the family’s interpreter. They cannot appreciate her talent for singing, but she is encouraged by her local choir to pursue a career in it, which would mean moving to Paris and leaving her family. This coming-of-age drama proved
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Dheepan
A Tamil fighter flees Sri Lanka claiming asylum with two strangers to create a family and ease the asylum process. But life in Paris is violent too – will old fighting ways become necessary to protect his new family? Dheepan is Jacques Audiard’s most Scorsese-like film, and all the better for it. It’s critical elevation
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Elle
Based on Betty Blue author Philippe Dijan’s novel Oh, this controversial revenge melodrama is the first film in 10 years from Dutch director Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers, Total Recall, Robocop). Now in his late 70s, he retains his trademark blackly-comic, provocative approach to serious issues, in this case the effects of an attack
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Things to Come
Hansen-Løve says she wrote the role of Nathalie with Huppert in mind, while the character was inspired by her own mother, a professor of Philosophy. The film accords as much importance to silence as to words; to the poetry of landscapes – from low tide in Brittany to the peaks of Vercours – as to
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Frantz
A change of tone again from prolific director Ozon, (Potiche, 8 Women, Swimming Pool) this time a romantic mystery with a plot that twists and turns like a slinky. French veteran, Adrien, journeys to a small German village a year after the end of World War I, to visit the grave of his friend Frantz
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Faces Places
Unlikely couple 88 year-old director Agnes Varda and photographer and muralist JR (33) create a visual essay on the French in this quirkiest of road movies. Travelling throughout France with a box truck equipped with a portable photo booth and printing facility, they take photographs of the people they meet and places they see, and
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Transit
Transit is based on a 1944 novel by German-Jewish writer Anna Seghers, who draws on her own experience as a refugee. Petzold situates the drama in an historically indeterminate moment, superimposing past and present. There are no period trappings; the opening sirens could be sounding today, and the soldiers storming Paris look like contemporary French
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
This classical yet radical romantic period drama set shortly before the French Revolution is the fourth feature from 40 year old French auteur Celine Sciamma, who has described it as a “manifesto on the female gaze”. Sciamma has described the film’s title as deliberately evoking the work of a writer she loves, Henry James, “who
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My Life as a Courgette
A neglected 9-year-old boy lands in a rural home for orphans, where he finds that everyone has a personal story to rival his own. Written in episodic monologue, Gilles Paris’ novel Autobiography of a Courgette (2002) is retold in a “stop motion” film that captivated audiences around the world. Trained in illustration and computer graphics,
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Tomboy
Summer holidays are when young people can find the freedom to push boundaries and explore their identity; relocating to a new home and school can let them change how they are perceived.
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