The story of a radicalised young boy who desires to kill his schoolteacher is rendered with subtle but powerful strokes, making this one of the Dardennes’ most relevant films.
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Young Ahmed (2019)
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Tag / France
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Knife + Heart (2018)
Yann Gonzalez’s decent sophomore feature continues his penchant for stylish, hallucinatory and provocative filmmaking in this serial killer mystery centering on a French gay porn producer.
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Le Pont du Nord (1981)
Rivette’s quaint adventure featuring two women—one an ex-con, the other a vagabond—navigating the streets of Paris is a freewheeling if also meandering look at how crime is a game of chance and consequence.
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Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
My favourite feature debut from the French New Wave—an extraordinary meditation on trauma, memory and love as Resnais merges the historical, geographical and the personal in an intelligent and sensuous way.
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That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Sexual politics and sociopolitics dovetail in Bunuel’s mesmerising final film, featuring two actresses taking turns to play the female lead.
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Belle de jour (1967)
A bold and stunning effort by Bunuel that explores with psychological depth both sexual repression and expression from the perspective of a sexy but frigid young woman.
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All Is Forgiven (2007)
An assured feature debut from Mia Hansen-Løve who deals with the film’s father-daughter bond/estrangement with a clear-eyed sensitivity.
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Orpheus (1950)
Magical yet haunting, Cocteau’s reimagining of the Orpheus myth in France during the Beatnik 1950s is a cinephile’s treat.
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Claire’s Knee (1970)
Arguably Rohmer’s most iconic ‘moral tale’—the plot of an older man’s fetish for a teenage girl’s bare knee makes for great philosophical musings about the nature of lust and love.
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Sisters Brothers, The (2018)
The great Jacques Audiard’s first English-language film entertains with strong performances by Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly, tackling the Western genre with rare wit and verve.
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Eternality Tan 