The Dance of the Foxes: an incandescent coming-of-age (review)
A sensitive first feature film from Valéry Carnoy, with an imperial Samuel Kircher as a young ingenuous boxer who the transition to adulthood and toxic…
Rays and Shadows: the first French summit of the 2026 cinema year (review)
There have been great films about the Resistance. On the Occupation, too. On Collaboration? Xavier Giannoli attempts (and largely succeeds) the great unthought/impossible of French…
The Testament of Ann Lee: an aesthetic tour de force (review)
Co-writer of The Brutalist, Mona Fastvold is directing a third female feature, dedicated to a figure forgotten by the history books, and radically plays with…
Il Maestro: game, set and match Pierfrancesco Favino! (critical)
The Italian actor shines as a bully tennis coach whose cracks become more and more gaping in this Italian film, in perfect balance between drama…
Scarlet and Eternity: the new peak from the director of The Wolf Children (review)
The Japanese Mamoru Hosada signs a gem of an animated film, a personal and feminist rereading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. To die for. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is…
Pillion: deeply uneasy, terribly exhilarating (review)
Harry Lighton reveals himself in a daring first feature, screenplay prize at Un certain regard, on the relationship between a biker and the young man…
Two women and a few men: a spicy portrait of femininity (review)
Quebecois Chloé Robichaud dynamites the comedy of manners by celebrating the imperfect feminism of everyday life through sharp dialogues, an impeccable sense of rhythm and…
Pillion: Deeply uneasy, terribly exhilarating (review)
Harry Lighton reveals himself in a daring first feature, screenplay prize at Un certain regard, on the relationship between a biker and the young man…
Retirement Home 2 on TF1: Ehpad pity for Kev Adams (review)
Kev Adams does it again with his old French comedy curmudgeons. Retirement Home 2 is broadcast for the first time unencrypted this Sunday on TF1….
The Piano Accident on Canal Plus: a cruel and misanthropic comedy (review)
Adèle Exarchopoulos is crazy as an Internet star entangled in a dirty affair. Quentin Dupieux’s most “Westlundian” film. Released last summer in cinemas, The Piano…
The Little Last One on VOD: Hafsia Herzi’s most beautiful film (review)
Adapted from the autobiographical book by Fatima Daas, this story of the emancipation of a young lesbian of Muslim faith reveals a stunning actress, Nadia…
Enzo on Canal Plus: a story of work and desire (review)
Imagined by Laurent Cantet and produced by his lifelong accomplice Robin Campillo after his death, a skin-deep initiatory story that reveals a talent to follow:…