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The birthplace of cinema has always been home to innovation. The silent Impressionists and such Surrealists as René Clair and Poetic Realists like Jean Vigo, Marcel Carné and Jean Renoir influenced film-makers worldwide. But the biggest impact was caused by the nouvelle vague that saw young auteurs François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Louis Ma... show more > Recommended French Film Films
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The Red Balloon / White Mane1953; 1956, Albert Lamorisse, DVD A pairing of magical films. The Red Balloon shows a balloon with a life of its own following a young boy through the streets of Paris, while White Mane (aka Crin blanc: Le cheval sauvage) sees a boy find a white-maned wild horse in the Camargue. R...
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Etre et Avoir2002, Nicolas Philibert, DVD The documentary sensation that followed a year in the life of a rural French village school in the Auvergne, its dozen children aged between 4-10, and their single teacher, Monsieur Georges Lopez. A master of quiet authority, he patiently navigate...
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 La Gloire de Mon Pere1990, Yves Robert, DVD One of cinema's finest celebrations of childhood based on the memoirs of Marcel Pagnol. An adult Marcel nostalgically recalls one idyllic summer spent with his family in the hills of Provence. A film filled with warmth, humour and love for lost yo...
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 Le Chateau de Ma Mere1991, Yves Robert, DVD The sequel to La Gloire de Mon Pere sees Marcel devastated at having to leave his wondrous hills of Provence, where his family had spent the summer. Marcel is elated when they return for Christmas and then Easter. Before long they are heading for ...
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Mesrine: Parts 1 and 22008, Jean-Francois Richet, DVD A terrific double-header containing both parts of Jean-Francois Richet's Mesrine, chronicling the violent, exciting life of the notorious French bank-robber, Jacques Mesrine. Vincent Cassel dominates both as the eponymous anti-hero, prowling and ...
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Les Vacances de M. Hulot1952, Jacques Tati, DVD Gentle, charming and very funny, Tati takes the theme of a yearly summer seaside holiday, and using the everyday peculiarities of character and place, produces a languorous, light-at-heart film that owes as much to dance as to slapstick. A genius ...
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Mon Oncle1958, Jacques Tati, DVD Tati's gentle satire of sterile modernity and pretentious gadgetry in which his M. Hulot introduces elements of confusion into the Arpels' well-ordered lives, house and factory. There is a wealth of visual riches on display in this exercise in 'de...
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Jour de Fete1949, Jacques Tati, DVD Set in the rural surroundings of a French village, Tati is Francois the postman in this satire on the modern obsession with speed and efficiency. He tries to speed up his round during a visit by the fair. This is fertile ground for Tati's energy a...
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 Schoolgirl Hitchhikers1973, Jean Rollin, DVD Two lesbian schoolgirls get mixed up with a gang of jewel thieves in the first of a number of pure sexploitation films from Jean Rollin. Spurred on by the popularity of sex scenes in his horror films, Rollin began to experiment with a series of so...
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Home (Meier, 2008)2008, Ursula Meier, DVD Comedy satire in which a new motorway brings chaos to a family's life. Living in the tranquillity of the French countryside, life is sweet for Marthe (Isabelle Huppert), her husband Michel (Olivier Gourmet), and their three children. However, when...
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Playtime1967, Jacques Tati, DVD 'Film Tati No.4' takes place in the ruinously extravagant but brilliantly effective steel and glass set that brought about Tati's bankruptcy. Monsieur Hulot fades into the background in this comic take on the confusion and alienation of modern liv...
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The Class (Cantet, 2008)2008, Laurent Cantet, DVD Palme d'Or winner at Cannes 2008. The tense environment of a tough inner-city school in Paris where cultures and attitudes often clash is revealed in this award-winning drama based on François Bégaudeau’s best-selling novel 'Between the Walls'. B...
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Lola Montes (Restored Edition)1955, Max Ophuls, DVD The story of the legendary courtesan is told in flashback as Lola spends her last years performing in a circus presided over by a domineering ringmaster (Peter Ustinov) and reliving the events and loves of her life, with among others, Liszt and th...
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 The Jacques Tati Collection1949-74, Jacques Tati, DVD Five films from Jacques Tati. Features Jour de fête (1949), Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1953), Mon Oncle (1958), Playtime (1967) and Parade (1974). Jacques Tati was one of the 20th century’s greatest filmmakers. His ability to captivate audience...
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La Grande Vadrouille1966, Gerard Oury, DVD Comedy - for forty years the most successful French film in France of all time - about how the crew of an Allied B-17 Flying Fortress shot down over Paris make their way through German-occupied France with the help of two French citizens - a house...
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