You wouldn’t expect that a French animation about walking-and-talking bears could possess both depth and intelligence, plus it’s so fun to watch.
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Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily, The (2019)
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Tag / France
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Detective (1985)
Godard’s attempt at mashing multiple genres together in a mystery-type film doesn’t really go anywhere, and in fact, the characters are ironically searching for some kind of direction.
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Atlantics (2019)
It does feel overreaching at times, but Mati Diop’s French-Senegalese first feature is a beguiling take on how tragedy can haunt the present.
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Like Someone in Love (2012)
Shot in Japan with a Japanese cast, Iranian master Kiarostami gives us a rueful but tender film about the nature of love, desire and liking.
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Certified Copy (2010)
Kiarostami’s first non-Iranian film is engaging, but the male lead is unable to hold his own against Juliette Binoche.
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Celine Sciamma’s formidable period piece about two women who find deep comfort and intimacy in each other is at once intellectually stimulating and emotionally devastating.
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Oh, Woe Is Me (1993)
An experimental audiovisual essay by an increasingly iconoclastic ‘90s Godard that abstractly ruminates about religion, philosophy, love and politics in the only way he can.
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I Lost My Body (2019)
Creative and original, this French animation meditates on personal loss with eye-popping visuals, but never quite reaches any significant emotional peak.
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Officer and a Spy, An (2019)
Polanski doesn’t seem interested to push his film past the second gear, but it is a stately and handsome work about the Dreyfus Affair.
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Liberte (2019)
If you enjoy slow arthouse cinema that is also extremely perverse, then this new tableau-styled film by Albert Serra about libertinism in 18th century France may be your cup of tea.
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Eternality Tan 