Tagged French Film

Phenomenological notions of slippery subjectivity and the ‘chiasmic in-betweenness’ of the film experience are beautifully illustrated in Chamarette’s book which engages with one of the richest examples of thic...

In 2008 French actress Catherine Deneuve (then aged sixty-four) made her 100th screen appearance in Arnaud Desplechin’s Un Conte de Noel/A Christmas Tale. In the time that has followed she has made at least two...

First we see only ugliness. A troubled young boy hurls a cat down a flight of stairs. A mother cradles her daughter’s corpse and presses her gaping mouth against the pale and bloodied face. The labored breaths ...

Set amongst the world of refugees and asylum seekers in the port city of Calais, Philippe Lioret’s 2009 film says much about France’s confrontation with the symbolic ‘other’.

The relationship of cinema to politics has a rich and chequered history, effectively dictating the form of many of cinema’s most vibrant configurations (Russian cinema in the wake of the 1917 revolution, Italia...

Those familiar with French director Claire Denis will be aware of the exquisite sensuality of her cinema. Whether coming together with another body in the world through the shared space and flesh of desire, or ...