The protagonist of Dear Mother (L’origine du monde), Jean-Louis Bordier, is seen through the lens of the Oedipus complex. The phenomenon brought forward by Sigmund Freud describes the attraction one feels to…
Tag: French Cinema
In a directorial career spread over four decades (1943-1983), Robert Bresson made only 13 feature films. L’Argent (Money) was his last film. This is due to his meticulous approach to cinematic language…
“Are you your body or is your body you? ” This is the central philosophy of French filmmaker Julia Ducournau who happens to be the second woman to win Palme d’Or in…
Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors Trilogy is an interestingly structured narrative that focuses on the colors, as the name suggests, of the French flag, and addresses the notions or principles each color represents.…
Josep (2020), the feature debut of cartoonist and editorial journalist Aurel (Aurelien Froment), isn’t exactly the biopic of Catalan artist Josep Bartoli (1910-1995). It’s rather a formally innovative animated film that juggles…
The exceptionally hardheaded and unpredictable crime drama, Classe tous risques (‘The Big Risk’, 1960) had the misfortune of releasing right before the onslaught of French New Wave, courtesy of Jean Luc-Godard’s impactful…
