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.
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.
Bonello’s new ‘pandemic lockdown’ film is difficult to pin down—it’s disjointed yet free, disturbing yet human, as it experiments with form, content and aesthetics with varying results.
This early Godard sees Anna Karina at her most bewitching (those soul-staring eyes that break the fourth wall!) as the auteur reinvents the ‘rom-com’ with wilful abandon and artistry.
This beloved classic epitomised the French ’60s musical, with Demy at the top of his game weaving his multitude of characters together in the delightful and colourful world he had created.
When a loved one has dementia, he or she feels so near yet so far—this universal feeling is ontologically perfected by Noe in cinematic terms through the split-screen technique, which forms the backbone of this grim but emotionally powerful documentary-esque work about ageing, mortality and love.
Three quite indelible stories about people in love (or not) as coincidences threaten to derail their intimate intentions in this charming Rohmerian comedy set around the beautiful spaces of Paris.
Featuring arguably a career-best performance by Romy Schneider, Zulawski’s work here is enigmatic and indescribably haunting as it dissects the meaning of love and desire through the psychological destabilisation of its characters.
Told in five chapters in reverse chronological order, Ozon charts the disintegration of a marriage in this well-acted bittersweet film.
Akerman’s last fiction feature is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Malaysia-set first novel in an assured slow cinema style that is evocative of the tropical landscape (shot in Cambodia) where a white man is facing an existential crisis dealing with his estranged mixed-race daughter.
Eternality Tan 