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Home » French cinema

Tag: French cinema

two white women talk with a cliffside beach in the background
Posted inFilm

Anaïs in Love

by Becca James May 13, 2022May 12, 2022

Anaïs in Love is as magnetic as its protagonist.

three women smile or laugh against a dark wooded background
Posted inFilm

Happening

by Kathleen Sachs May 13, 2022May 12, 2022

The no-holds-barred approach to the [abortion] procedure and its aftermath is the kind of interpretation of real life that great cinema does best.

Posted inFilm

France

by Kathleen Sachs January 12, 2022January 12, 2022

Dumont’s signature inscrutability remains intriguing but perhaps more frivolous here; Seydoux’s inspired performance helps to ground it.

Posted inFilm

In the silent classic The Lighthouse Keepers, styles and emotions come crashing in like waves

by Ben Sachs July 19, 2018August 18, 2021

Jean Gremilion directed this eclectic French tale of a lighthouse keeper and his half-mad son.

Posted inFilm

L’Enfant Secret is so intimate it feels like a confession

by Ben Sachs May 25, 2018August 18, 2021

With this hard-to-see 1979 feature, French director Philippe Garrel moves past narrative to focus on intense emotion.

Posted inFilm

Love is the drug in Andrzej Żuławski’s L’Important C’Est D’Aimer

by Ben Sachs September 21, 2017August 18, 2021

Romantic passion consumes everything in this 1975 drama from the director of Possession.

Posted inFilm

Get ready for Nocturama, an intense French thriller about a terror attack on Paris

by J.R. Jones September 7, 2017August 18, 2021

Bertrand Bonello directed this intense drama about radicals bringing darkness to the City of Light.

Posted inFilm

Free will is a bitch in Claude Sautet’s Les Choses de la Vie

by J.R. Jones July 19, 2017August 18, 2021

Michel Piccoli stars as an emotionally conflicted man rescued from choosing by an awful car crash.

Posted inBlogs

Staying Vertical and Metamorphoses showcase the provocative side of French cinema

by Ben Sachs April 19, 2017August 18, 2021

The latest films by Alain Guiraudie and Christophe Honoré open in Chicago this Friday.

Posted inBlogs

Not coming to the Disney Channel: Michel Gondry’s Microbe & Gasoline

by J.R. Jones July 29, 2016August 18, 2021

With Microbe & Gasoline, Michel Gondry finds an emotional story equal to his imaginative talents.

Posted inFilm

Ten new French features come to the Music Box

by Reader staff July 21, 2016August 18, 2021

Our roundup of reviews of local debuts at the Chicago French Film Festival

Posted inBlogs

The surrealists’ moviegoing game (RIP Alain Resnais, 1922-2014)

by Ben Sachs March 3, 2014August 18, 2021

The great French filmmaker, who passed away yesterday at 91, transformed the screening environment into a portal to the subconscious.

Posted inBlogs

This week in Claire Denis: A correspondence with Melika Bass and Lori Felker about The Intruder and Bastards

by Ben Sachs December 4, 2013August 19, 2021

A discussion about the groundbreaking French director’s formal strategies with two artists who have worked in film

Posted inBlogs

This week in Claire Denis: Talking with Andrea Gronvall about I Can’t Sleep and Trouble Every Day

by Ben Sachs November 20, 2013August 19, 2021

A conversation about two of the French filmmaker’s most challenging and most lurid films

Posted inBlogs

The funniest filmmaker you’ve never heard of

by J.R. Jones November 7, 2012August 19, 2021

French comedian Pierre Etaix makes a comeback at Gene Siskel Film Center

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