Akerman’s rarely-seen made-for-TV documentary about Pina Bausch is intimate, minimalist and soul-stirring as the famous choreographer goes on a European tour with her company of dancers.
An enjoyable sophomore rom-com from Triet about ‘courtrooms and bedrooms’ as a lawyer’s personal life becomes murkily entwined with her professional exploits.
A married man finds out that his ex-lover and her husband have moved into a neighbouring house in Truffaut’s penultimate feature about the inevitability of extramarital affairs—it covers familiar thematic ground but the director’s sure-handed grip on the narrative gives it illicit thrills.
This Locarno Golden Leopard winner, through its radical film language and vibrant experimentation with form, speaks to the disenchanting African experience in France where the Blacks have been continually ostracised, discriminated and exoticised.
A masterful crime thriller by Melville with one of the most intricate heist sequences ever shot.
This moody piece detailing the state-of-mind of several members of the French Resistance during WWII is arguably Melville’s greatest work and one of the finest films ever made about the subject.
Diop’s well-intentioned documentary centering on people living in the Parisian suburbs is surprisingly monotonous, unstimulating, and goes on for far too long.
Bonello’s unclassifiable attempt at a David Lynch-meets-‘The Fountain’ sci-fi mashup is mysterious, meandering, alluring and confounding all at once, as it explores the nature of love, fear and memory as mediated by the threat of artificial intelligence.
Truffaut and Leaud continue another chapter in the life of ‘Antoine Doinel’ in this charming take on youthful romance and misadventure that toggles between pseudo-screwball comedy and detective drama.
Freewheeling if repetitive, Rivette’s anti-thriller feels much emptier than usual as a woman’s sister and an ex-lover are asked to join her in mysterious circumstances.
Eternality Tan 