Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Roselyn Bosche Stars: Jean Reno, Hugo Leverdez, Melanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh, Udo Schenk. This powerful and deeply moving film depicts one of the most shocking and shameful episodes of French history. In the early hours of July 16, 1942 the French police, at the direction of the Nazis, rounded up… Continue Reading »
MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITTE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jean Becker Stars: Gerard Depardieu, Gisele Casadesus, Sophie Guillemin. My Afternoons With Margueritte is an absolutely charming feel good film from director Jean Becker (Conversations With My Gardener, etc), and it shares a few parallels with that earlier film. Germain Chazes (Gerard Depardieu) is an illiterate oaf who does odd… Continue Reading »
HEARTBREAKER
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Pascal Chaumiel Stars: Roman Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Juliet Ferrier, Francois Damiens, Andrew Lincoln Helena Noguerra. This charming romantic comedy from France has been a massive hit in its native country, and is likely to find a responsive audience in cinemas in Australia. Alex (Romain Duris) is a professional Lothario who… Continue Reading »
RED LIGHTS
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Cedric Kahn Stars: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet, Vincent Deniard, Jean-Pierre Gos, Carline Paul. Based on a novel by prolific Belgian crime writer Georges Simenon, Red Lights is a tense road movie with sinister undertones and a slow burning, white-knuckled psychological thriller very much in the style of Hitchcock, who often… Continue Reading »
HARRY, HE IS HERE TO HELP
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Dominik Moll Stars: Laurent Lucas, Sergi Lopez, Mathilde Seigner, Sophie Guillemin, Liliane Rovere, Dominique Rozan, Michael Fau, Victoire De Koster. All too often writers tend to describe most screen thrillers as Hitchcockian in nature, even if they don’t deserve the accolade. One film that certainly does deserve the comparison is… Continue Reading »