This 5 ½ hour-long French silent masterwork is an undisputed milestone of its era, telling the story of one of the most famous military leaders in history with eye-opening innovation that still remains startling today.
Nothing is certain in Ozon’s layered, erotic mystery about the commingling of reality and imagination with the creative writing process, featuring excellent performances by Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier.
Chabrol’s chill but sometimes suspenseful take on toxic masculinity comes in the form of four young women trying to figure out their lives in this long underseen French New Wave drama.
Chabrol’s firm Hitchcockian grasp on the crime-mystery belies his even more remarkable work with his characters and narrative, making this one of the great works of his late career.
An under-appreciated oddball of a film by Alain Resnais that dabbles with US-French cultural idiosyncrasies as well as the tension between popular culture and intellectual scholarship.
Banned in Singapore, Ozon’s early satirical if uneven black comedy asks of us to reimagine the limits of morality as a middle-class family ‘rebalances’ itself through debauchery, sadomasochism and incest.
A German woman temporarily moves from Berlin to Marseille in this enigmatic work by a unique filmmaker largely in tune with the unfathomable ennui of her characters.
Even a master filmmaker can misfire big time in this shallow and messy star-studded stab at telling the narrative of the infamous ‘Cuban Five’.
Resnais blurs the lines between theatre and cinema in this mature treatise on the ‘love triangle’, marked by a trio of outstanding performances.
Resnais’ tonally-jarring ‘musical-drama’ that intercuts across three timelines feels too artificially-constructed and incoherent to make any meaningful sense.
Eternality Tan 