One of Gremillon’s best-known works, this part sea action, part romance drama strikes a strong emotional chord with its performances and melodramatic flair.
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Remorques (1941)
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Tag / France
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Vie de Jesus, La (1997)
A fascinating feature debut by Dumont, who captures the tedium of French countryside life by finding beauty in the mundane and the horrific in the nonchalant, working with non-professional actors with aplomb.
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Trial of Joan of Arc, The (1962)
Bresson’s ‘Joan of Arc’ film is as spare and minimalist as you can imagine, distilling with startling clarity the moral essence of one of history’s most infamous trials.
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La bête humaine (1938)
A well-paced and engaging genre effort by Renoir that mixes psychological drama with the crime-noir, featuring Jean Gabin and Simone Simon as doomed lovers.
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Mr. Klein (1976)
There are two Robert Kleins (one’s a Jew) in WWII Nazi-occupied France in this slow-burning, finely-tuned Kafkaesque wrong identity mystery-thriller, starring a paranoid Alain Delon.
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Autumn Tale, An (1998)
A winner of Best Screenplay at Venice, Rohmer’s final ‘Four Seasons’ entry is an incisive and revelatory take on finding romance at a much older age, featuring two outstanding performances by Marie Riviere and Beatrice Romand.
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Donkey Skin (1970)
Demy goes full-blown with his colour palette and visual style in this rather straightforward and sporadically engaging fairy tale about an incestuous king who wants to marry his daughter.
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Fire (2022)
Denis tackles a ‘love triangle’-type drama with brooding intensity if rather conservatively, featuring two showy performances from Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon.
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City of Lost Children, The (1995)
It’s probably one of the most visually stunning films from the ‘90s with incredible production design and cinematography, but it can be difficult to care for its fractured story or the array of eccentric characters.
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Made in U.S.A (1966)
This is Godard having fun with colours and language as its crime-noir trappings somewhat mask the auteur’s increasing fixation on Marxist politics, though the film isn’t always coherent or compelling.
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Eternality Tan 