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‘Case 137’ review: Lea Drucker anchors Dominik Moll’s police corruption drama
Dir: Dominik Moll. France. 2025. 116mins
In Case 137, a French Inner Affairs officer investigates police misconduct through the 2018 yellow vests protests, solely to...
‘Her Will Be Done’ review: A young woman faces an ancient evil in rural French horror
Dir/scr: Julia Kowalski. France/Poland. 2025. 98mins
Purification requires sacrifice in Her Will Be Finished, a murky rural horror wherein a younger girl Is determined to...
‘The Little Sister’ review: Hafsia Herzi explores identity and faith in coming-of-age story
Dir/scr: Hafsia Herzi. France. 2025. 108 minutes.
The youngest of three daughters in a French Algerian household residing within the suburbs of Paris, Fatima (Nadia Melliti)...
‘Love Letters’ review: Drama charts lesbian couple’s rocky road to parenthood in 2014 France
Dir/scr: Alice Douard. France. 2025. 97mins
The pressures on a French lesbian couple anticipating their first youngster lie on the coronary heart of Love Letters....
‘Nouvelle Vague’ review: Richard Linklater dramatises the making of Godard’s ‘Breathless’
Dir: Richard Linklater. France. 2025. 105mins
Working virtually fully in French, Richard Linklater crafts a black-and-white movie shot in Academy Ratio across the making of...
‘No One Will Know’ review: A Parisian bar plays host to a looping crime thriller
Dir: Vincent Maël Cardona. France. 2025. 115mins
As daybreak breaks, a combination of regulars and strangers wash up in a down-at-heel bar known as Le...
‘A Magnificent Life’ review: Sylvain Chomet animates the life of Marcel Pagnol
Dir/scr: Sylvain Chomet. France/Luxembourg/Belgium 2025. 90mins
The playwright, writer and film-maker Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) clearly did have A Magnificent Life – however you think about it will need to have...
‘Enzo’ review: Directors’ Fortnight opens with Laurent Cantet’s last film, directed by Robin Campillo
Dirs. Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet. France/Italy/Belgium. 2025. 102mins.
Directed by Robin Campillo, however credited up entrance as ‘a movie by Laurent Cantet’, Enzo is a strong...
‘Promised Sky’ review: Follow-up to ‘Under The Fig Trees’ opens Un Certain Regard
Dir: Erige Sehiri. France/Tunisia/Qatar. 2025. 95mins
Reflecting actual occasions, Promised Sky follows three Ivorian girls attempting to make a recent begin for themselves as sub-Saharan...
‘Leave One Day’ review: Cannes opens with crowd-pleasing musical of ‘exceptionally Gallic’ flavour
Dir: Amélie Bonnin. France. 2025. 96 minutes.
Nudging into her early forties, Cécile (Juliette Armanet) is about to embark on a brand new chapter in...