With the most successful film industry outside of the United States, France has given us everything from easy comedies to Cannes-winning oeuvres. If you want to brush up on your français, here are the best movies featuring the French language.
The curious link between smell and memory forms the basis of this intriguing — albeit uneven — exploration of the…
This is the type of movie I completely fell in love with but cannot articulate exactly why. Maybe it’s the…
This unique romance is set during a time when a man would be sent the painting of the woman he…
La Chimera is often meandering. Scenes flitter about and move at different paces, resembling dreams more than they do reality,…
The gorgeous grain of Falcon Lake’s lush 16mm cinematography instantly gives it an air of nostalgia, as if the movie…
Only a few people in Dita’s house are related by blood, but you wouldn’t know that by how they move.…
After more than 400 separate film adaptations, is there anything new to say about the monster that birthed the sci-fi…
Set in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas, Blue Caftan is a tender portrayal of pure love and the different forms…
There’s a lot to think about in Dream Scenario, which posits the possibility of collectively seeing the same real man…
The premise of Mars Express may not be novel, especially when films like Blade Runner have already gracefully explored the…
In both documentaries and films, adoptees meeting their biological parents for the first time is an event often painted in…
What is Souleymane’s Story? Right off the bat, that’s what everyone asks from Souleymane. It’s what his fellow immigrant asks,…
After Jackie and Spencer, the dark satire El Conde is a surprise new entry in Pablo Larraín’s stacked filmography. Already,…
Young Sherlock isn’t quite accurate to the Andrew Lane book series or the original works from Arthur Conan Doyle. Here,…
If it’s true that to cook is to love, then Dodin and Eugenie must be enraptured by one another. They…
When two young brides are mistakenly swapped on a train, it’s a difficult situation, much more so when the brides…
When vampires choose not to kill a human, it’s usually played up with so much drama, angst, and maybe a…
After 2019’s The Souvenir—a drama about a toxic, suffocating relationship—director Joanna Hogg brings back her protagonist (played by a superb…
The Last Duel propped high expectations as the Closing Film at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, but its theatrical release…
Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s new movie is about an arrogant European artist who tattoos a Syrian man’s back, essentially…
It’s difficult to portray Cinderella stories nowadays without making them feel cliche and irrelevant, but Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris…
David Fincher’s return to form almost ten years after Gone Girl turns the eponymous French graphic novel series into a…
Oh, the pains of first love. Many a film has been created in memory of it, so the struggles of…
In the words of the journalist Christo Grozev, Alexei Navalny isn’t just a politician; he’s also an internet personality, reporter,…
He may be out of office, but films about Donald Trump’s racist and xenophobic immigration policies will continue to feel…
The directorial debut of Australian twin brothers Danny and Michael Philippou—more popularly known together as the YouTube creators RackaRacka—Talk to…
It doesn’t feel quite right to call Pacifiction a political thriller — at 2 hours 45 minutes and with an…
More a showcase of various styles of animation than an expansion of Star Wars lore (and all the better for…
With a script that seems to have been written for a medieval fantasy, but set in a present-day Ivorian jail,…
Given the political nature of the story, it’s not surprising that The Mauritanian takes a somewhat safe and simple approach…
With truffle being so expensive, you would think that the world would eventually figure out how to get this tasty…
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