Frothy, silly, and sentimental, WRESTLING QUEENS pits a bunch of checkout chicks against a mob of murderous Mexicans in the World Wide Wrestling arena.
Grappling to win back the affection of her son whom she has had to foster out …
Emmanuelle Devos draws on her own vocation in JUST A SIGH (LE TEMPS DE L’AVENTURE) in which she plays a jobbing actress, Alix.
At the beginning of JUST A SIGH Alix is waiting in the wings preparing to come on …
In VIOLETTE, brilliant French actress Emmanuelle Devos portrays writer Violette Leduc. If Simone de Beauvoir was the Queen of French letters then Violete was the princess, heir apparent to post war Paris literati.
Pic opens with Violette being pursued through …
If there is one singular reason to attend the Alliance Francais Film Festival it’s Fanny Ardant. Those who are not already ardent fans of Fanny Ardant should be after seeing BRIGHT DAYS AHEAD, with Fanny at her funniest as a …
JAPPELOUP tells the story of an Olympic champion show jumper who scored spectacular success in Seoul.
Written and starring Guillaume Canet as Pierre Durand the equestrian who ditched a career at the bar to raise the bar of elite steed …
A cross between Robin Hood and Braveheart, MICHAEL KOHLHAAS is a bleak, brooding and brutal tale of 16th century feudalism.
At his most enigmatic photogenic best, Mads Mikkelsen plays Michael Kohlhaas, an honest horse trader continually cheated by a …
Apart from his Oscar winning performance in The Artist, Jean Dujardin is possibly best known for his series of spy spoofs starring as secret agent OSS117.
In MOBIUS he shrugs off the spoof and plays a spook for real, a …
A fractured fairytale is a fair way to describe UNDER THE RAINBOW, a multi layered fable interwoven with strands of Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.
Flic opens with a dreamy blue dream sequence narrated by the dreamer, …
IT BOY, a film turning on the older woman/younger man scenario, is a fizzy, frothy confection starring the gorgeous Virginie Afira as Alice, a nearly 40 career woman, divorced single mum.
She’s been in cold blooded training to break the …