French film-maker Maurice Pialat’s unflinching portrait of childhood on the cusp of ruination – in Naked Childhood (L’Enfance Nue, 1968) – is interesting in many ways. First the film neither inculcated the…
Tag: French Cinema
In Stephane Brize’s quietly devastating drama The Measure of a Man (‘La loi du marche’, 2015) French star Vincent Lindon plays 51-year-old Thierry Taugourdeau, a laid-off longtime factory worker seeking employment. Similar…
Joseph Losey’s Mr. Klein (1976) tells a powerful story of mistaken identity, indifference, and remorse, set in the wartime occupied Paris, in 1942. French star Alain Delon offers one of his best…
Rene Clement’s Forbidden Games (‘Jeux interdits’, 1952) — based on writer Francois Boyer’s novel — is one of the greatest films ever made on grief, war, and loss of childhood innocence. Scaled…
Louis Garrel’s A Faithful Man (L’homme fidèle) is available to watch on Netflix. There is a scene at the beginning where Louis Garrel’s character comes out of bed, clearly showing the signs…
Alain Delon, the star of ‘Le Samourai’ and ‘Once a Thief’ will be honored with a Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Festival. Delon’s first notable work was in Rene Clement’s Purple…