Zulawski’s infamous cult horror about a couple’s disintegrating marriage is as deranged a film as any, featuring a terrifying performance for the ages by Cannes Best Actress winner Isabelle Adjani.
A popular singer anxiously waits for her medical test results in this charming yet reflective drama that remains one of Varda’s best-known works from the French New Wave era.
This haunting debut feature about a group of schoolgirls shielded from the modern world is best described as ‘Dogtooth’ meets ‘Petite Maman’, marked by an unsettling sound design and an acute sense of false normalcy.
Antonioni brings his enigmatic style to striking locales around Europe and Africa in this tour de force work about identities and personas.
Triet’s highly-charged frenzy of a debut feature sees a female news reporter navigate rowdy crowds and an even rowdier family row, as her persistent ex-husband attempts to pay her little children a visit on the day of the 2012 French Presidential Election.
Triet’s third feature suffers somewhat from haphazard editing as it tells a fragmentary story about a psychotherapist who finds renewed motivation as a writer as she becomes embroiled in the affairs of an aspiring actress.
Explicit unsimulated sex as an attraction aside, this is probably Noe’s worst film—too meandering, overlong and built around an annoying ‘inner thoughts’ voiceover that quickly becomes tiresome.
Seemingly existing outside of time, Rivette’s performative revenge tale featuring women pirates and sorceresses is one of his boldest experiments in film form, culminating in an occult-like finale of dancing bodies in trance.
Two celestial beings battle for a magical diamond in the underbelly of Paris in Rivette’s peculiar anti-fantasy, one that is drenched in a noir-ish atmosphere of shadowy interiors.
A French computer programmer attempts to create a game about WWII’s Battle of Okinawa but faces an existential crisis when history, memory and trauma become mediated by the throes of technological change in this spectral final feature documentary from one of cinema’s foremost experimenters.
Eternality Tan 